February 15, 2004Lak leads attackLak is back on the attack. Playing his first game as a forward in more than a month, the senior sniper sparked his team to a 21-19 overtime win in Sunday's game by quarterbacking the offense, dominating the defense and confusing his opponents. "Lak is so good on the ball, you can almost leave him alone even with two guys on him," says Billy Idol, whose side had to battle from behind three times before finally taking the lead for good, late in the game. "He gives us a lot of space to be open." "He can control the play from anywhere," says Ottoman, who got the win after missing almost two months to recover from laser eye surgery. "He sets up in our zone, gets guys in the right position, he can pass it off, or he can run plays. They're keying on him." That freed up second-line snipers like Cowboy Bill, who blasted seven goals from the high slot as opposing defenders swarmed his lanky linemate. "That's one of the great advantages of having Lak," says the surprise scoring star, who also netted the game-winner, a high blast that eluded Gump's outstretched trapper. "He lets the rest of us free up. You can just cheat up a little bit and get open for those two-on-ones." That's his gameplan, says Lak Attack. With his vision of the court sharpened by his month-long sojourn between the pipes, he knew if he could draw the attention of defenders, his linemates would have license to go hard to the net. "You're just trying to get the others invloved," says the speedy slapshooter. "I'm just trying to make passes, dump it in deep." Where his hard-working wingers were often able to beat lazy defenders to the evil orange plastic ball, creating scoring opportunities deep in the offensive zone. "I think we slacked off a little bit, and it definitely cost us in the end," says Paul One of his side's defensive deficencies that cost his team leads of as many as three goals. "You slack off, and it takes a long time to get going again." Especially when there's a saavy star like Lak Attack ready to take advantage. "We just kept going, and waited for our opportunities," says the venerable veteran. "When we found them, we buried them." "We just had to keep working hard," says Cowboy Bill. "We just had to be smart defensively and try to take advantage of all the chances we got." Posted by jaysuburb at February 15, 2004 04:03 PMComments
Ahhhhh....I see someone is posting fake responses under my name again....that's a bit that never gets old Posted by: Beetle Boy at February 22, 2004 07:02 PMBefore I intitate any sort of frivolous legal proceeding on behalf of anyone from this rogue's gallery I need to see someone slap beetle-little-boy! Please!! My aunt's friends birthday?!??! Isn't there some sort of degree of seperation provision to prevent these lame ass excuses from floating to the end of beetle-little-boy's little mouth? My god man, get a writer!!! Sorry, I can't make it either. It's my aunt's friend's birthday, and I hear that there is a slight chance of drizzle. Posted by: Beetle Boy at February 21, 2004 10:42 PMEr, Beetle Boy?? Posted by: Living Legend at February 21, 2004 04:03 PMI, too, will be at the game...as long as my flight from Edmonton ain't late. Posted by: Wink at February 21, 2004 08:34 AMPFG will be at the game, although he will be under his alter ego moniker, PFF. Lookink forward to crushink some goals into net, da! Posted by: pfg at February 21, 2004 12:45 AMThe Newguy will also miss the Sunday game while he is away on buisness. Posted by: NewGuy at February 21, 2004 12:28 AMI wont be attending Sundays game as I will be out of town...I will miss you all...even those of you who only show up on sunny days-but not as much as the others. Posted by: elvis at February 20, 2004 04:07 PMJust keepin' shooting Cowboy. You get better and better every game and not many guys can say that. In fact, too many of us get worse and worse... I am at least glad no one is counting those goals based on any skill I may or may not have but rather because the other team was tired and couldn't keep up with the slow guy. I would hate to think that expectations of the Cowboy would get any higher after such a performance as I am happy to slink back to the unnoticed. I will definately score more goals when people forget about me. But it is fair to say that 1 or 2 goals would be more than usual. Posted by: Cowboy at February 18, 2004 03:19 PMLegend, Sweet irony. Our whole team "ran out of juice" and that's why Cowboy got his mitt full of goals. Posted by: PaulOne at February 18, 2004 09:32 AMHey back off the Sub-man peeps...he wuvs da Lak Attak! Posted by: Unabomber at February 18, 2004 08:32 AMand yet Lak told us whenever you whip out your other electric toys, they are always fully charged... Battery death, Gump. Ran out of juice before Cowboy really started juicing the evil orange plastic ball. Posted by: Jay Suburb at February 17, 2004 07:55 PMThe media loves Lak...the media hates Lak...the media loves Lak...damn media... Posted by: Wink at February 17, 2004 07:29 PMEnough about the Gumpster and the dog soup. I wanna know how the Cowboy can score 7 goals and have no pictures of him picking me apart, whereas the Lak Attack seems to be poping up in damn near every picture? Something you're not telling us Suburb? How many pictures do you take of Lak a week anyways? Maybe I don't want to know? Posted by: Gump at February 17, 2004 07:00 PMStay away from the chickens... Posted by: Living Legend at February 17, 2004 05:36 PMSorry PFG i am in a hell hole calle guangdong, i wish i was in shanghai...pork lung soup, is soup mmade out of pork lung (just had ox braised sinew for breakfast) must go know, and throw up Posted by: lobsterboy at February 17, 2004 04:41 PMI'm sitting here at the road hockey courts wondering where the hell is everybody, and what the heck is Pork Lung soup?! Posted by: Living Legend at February 17, 2004 08:54 AMGumper -- you're still the man, no matter what! As I sit here in Colorado, eating my Pork Lung soup (it's delicious), I think nobody deserves to lose it more than you! whatever the case Gump, i have to say, and i think Lobsterboy will back me up on this one, that you should never, NEVER apologize for loosing you your temper. we goalies are allowed to. Colonel, Newguy--no way. but us, every time. I don't know PFG, I think Hextall might own the rights to that one. Remember that hit on Chelios, that was sweeeeet... Posted by: Gump at February 16, 2004 10:08 PMgo gump go! you should notbe afraid to express your anger, itis so emotionally draining to loose a game like that. As I sit here in China (and no PFG, i have not run into any jolly local who knows who the canucks or todd bertuzzi is) eating my Pork Lung soup (wqhic is delicious) i sympathise with you mate. Try hurting some of the other players,that helps Posted by: lobsterboy at February 16, 2004 09:24 PMgump, did you throw tantrum on courts after game? I'm hafing my lawyers looking into that now; throwing tantrums is actually my copyright signature move. you should be getting the legal papers soon. Posted by: pfg at February 16, 2004 06:59 PMGotta love Lak -- he's the man. Posted by: Wink at February 16, 2004 01:29 PMOn Saturday there was an article in the Vancouver Sun about Mayor Larry Campbell playing goal for a charity hockey team and his nickname is "Gump". I don't care whether or not Campbell had the nickame first, I believe it belongs soley to our Road Hockey Gump. Will the lawyers in our group (Wendell? Bulldog?) initiate some legal proceedings on our behalf? Posted by: Beetle Boy at February 15, 2004 07:20 PMYou're being charitable, Gump. You had every right to be miffed. We played a lazy, half-a**ed game. We should have smoked them, but the way we strolled around, we deserved to lose. Posted by: Living Legend at February 15, 2004 05:18 PMI'd like to apologize for how I left the court today. That was by far, the funnest game of the year! Our team showed a lot of heart out there, and i was just happy to be a part of it. Posted by: Gump at February 15, 2004 04:43 PM |