April 24, 2005Season heats upWith one game left before the start of the Stanley Stick championship series, the season is heating up. Literally. Pig Farming Goalie made some key saves late in the game to spark his team to a tough 20-17 win in the first warm weather game of the Spring. Meanwhile, at the other end, Lobsterboy wilted from the tepid temperatures and the offensive opportunism of his resurgent rivals. "The weather was a huge factor," says agrarian goaltender, who concedes his biggest challenge in the heat may have been maintaining his mental cool. "I just start to shrug off those goals I had no chance. What can you do? You just let it go and focus on those shots you can stop." And that's just what he did, lunging across the crease to snatch a sure score away from Paul One and smothering blistering point shots with his big glove hand. "I think we rallied behind our goalie," says Gump, who was given a rare reprieve from his usual creaseminding commitment. "The team came together when PFG made a couple of huge saves. He was working hard and we figured we needed to win it for him." But not before they almost let it slip away. After the Colonel finally turned on his offensive jets, scoring three straight goals to give his side their first substantial lead of the day, their momentum stalled, allowing their feisty foes right back into the thick of the battle with four quick goals of their own to close the margin back down to one. "The Colonel scored his hattrick, then he came off talking out how it was an insurmountable lead and that fired up our next line," says Beetle Boy. "We were in the groove, we were in the zone," says Wendel, playing his first game since issuing his controversial challenge to his fellow roadsters to improve their attendance. "It was just magical, and I just don't know how it slipped away from us." Bad luck might have had something to do with it, as the Living Legend banked a long, languid shot off Wendel's ankle late in the game, after Beetle Boy and Billy Idol had also tipped shots past their own goalie earlier. "The fluke goals didn't help," says Wendel. "You see the ball going off my leg or go in off crazy angles and it's like oh, now what have we got to do to win this game? After your hard work and your good goals, it's hard to see the other side get a couple of cheap, lousy goals." "They got some lucky goals, and we were done," says Lobsterboy. "You got to get the bounces," says Gump. Posted by jaysuburb at April 24, 2005 04:12 PMComments
Stanley Stick Update, are the dates May 8 and May 15? We all realize then that MAy 8 is Mother's day, eh? I will commit to these two weekends, though my wife and mother of my children will never forgive me. Hope there are no cancellations! sniff... so beautiful... -on another note, Which Penthouse have you been reading Wink? Last time I checked it wasn't full of 'guys' talking of young men in Asia -or who was drinking from heads... more like Pent-Homo. Their ..is everyone happy? A gay Joke. I just couldn't stand it anymore. Posted by: elvis at April 29, 2005 01:37 PMHey Elvis, Have a look at my picture. Isn't that stick a beauty?? Posted by: Gump at April 27, 2005 11:16 PMI resent that outrageous accusation. I hardly met the Dragon's Head. That's my story and I'm sticking with it. Posted by: wendel at April 27, 2005 03:34 PMWhen did this turn into a letter to Penthouse? Posted by: Wink at April 27, 2005 11:33 AMAhh yes, it all tastes better straight out of the Dragon's head, and although Wendel is being allusive, I know he quite enjoyed it as well. Asia can have a profound effect on young men. Don't drag me into this Lobsterboy. What happens on the road, stays on the road. Posted by: wendel at April 26, 2005 01:46 PMHo Colonel, I seem to remember several nights in Seoul and Taipei sipping from the Dragon's head, don't you? Try not to be coy, Wendel still has the pictures... Posted by: lobsterboy at April 26, 2005 11:33 AMI'm not hugging an alcohol-reeking, stick-grabbing, stinky-butt roadster. If I found that attractive I'd wrap my arms around Lobster every week. Posted by: The Colonel at April 26, 2005 12:03 AMWendel; he's all about the hugging... Posted by: Living Legend at April 25, 2005 12:59 PMI predict next week someone will bring some ice to keep the balls in game condition. Players will be able to score real goals instead of bouncing balls in off body parts. Lobster will respond to the challenge by flopping his way to resounding victory. Elvis and Colonel will end up on the same side and connect on a brilliant play to score the game winner. They will hug each other in mutual admiration afterwards. And then truly we will have seen it all. Or not. Whatever. My, my, aren't we bitter. I guess there's always next week. Posted by: The Colonel at April 25, 2005 12:02 PMNo Kidding. It was victory decided by 4 lousy goals -not your 'insurmountable' play Colonel. Hate to break it to ya, but you boys wont that game on junk goals -not yer skills ...and just so ya know, you're not smart enough to 'toy' with us. Posted by: elvis at April 25, 2005 11:09 AMI thought i played pretty good, and all i get is a the word wilted... i guess next time i will aim a little higher with my stick there Jay Suburb Posted by: lobsterboy at April 25, 2005 10:05 AMnot knocking colonel at all, because he was team mate, but wasn't it lak who scored those three straight goals to give us that lead? just thought credit should go where credit is due. yea right... Beetle, Apparently it WAS an "insurmountable" lead; after all, we never squandered it completely. We just thought it would be fun to toy with you, Idol and Elvis. :P Posted by: The Colonel at April 24, 2005 09:10 PM |