February 20, 2006

One for the family

Paul One earned an extra helping of pototoes at his family's Sunday night dinner after he beat his brother-in-law, Lobsterboy, earlier in the day, 20-17, in road hockey's first sibling showdown of shotstoppers.

The neophyte netminder survived a couple of lulls during which he gave up five straight goals to earn brotherly bragging rights.

"There's nothing sweeter than beating your brother-in-law," said Paul One, who agreed to make only his second career start between the pipes when the prospect of facing down his rival relative proved too enticing to pass up.

"He's gonna do victory laps around the living room tonight," said Lobsterboy, who struggled in his first start since breaking his toe during some off-court hijinx. "I was very shakey, I let a lot of lousy goals in."

Indeed, neither netminder looked particularly strong, as each weathered difficult lulls that resulted in their respective teams giving up sizable leads.

"Those five or six goal runs can be back breakers," said Paul One. "You get everyone sorta looking around and worrying about the defensive end instead of going the other way and trying to score."

"We lost the lead so many times but we always caught up," said Lobsterboy, whose team spotted their oppoents an early 6-1 advantage but then battled back to take a four-goal lead of their own. "You just have to keep cool and remember the game has ebbs and flows."

But victory finally flowed from the creaseminding crustacean's claws when pesky goalscorer Kid finally found his touch around the net.

"Kid was the key in this game for sure," said Colonel, making only his second start since the addition of a new recruit to his family. "Everything that came off the end of his stick went in the net."

"I think we had the shooters on our side," said Paul One.

"Our team definitely did not have the greatest shooters," said Lobsterboy.

Posted by jaysuburb at February 20, 2006 09:51 PM
Comments

nyet! too many bad memories!
go finland. teemu and saku deserve it.

Posted by: pfg at February 23, 2006 11:54 PM

We dont want that bum Bertuzzi in our league, rotten scumbag... toe is better PFG, souds like you are excited to play, will you be cheering fro your former soviet masters for god medal?

Posted by: lobsterboy at February 23, 2006 01:58 PM

Billy Idol lent me his London Drug's style knee brace over the weekend. It was a good help and I was very thankful that he had recently disinfected it. Still, I think I need something stronger over the long term. I tweaked it a couple times in the middle and latter stages of the game when Scooby started bodychecking me aggressively at every opportunity. That boy sure does pack a whollop!

Posted by: The Colonel at February 22, 2006 10:33 PM

Well Well! Paul One's starting to make like a young Patrick Roy, is he? Too bad he's older than the old Patrick Roy...might be hard to keep up the streak.
He might get a chance, though. I'm out for this weekend; work, dammit.
Good luck to ya p1. hope your toe is better, loobster.
did you go get a knee brace colonel?
how bout your blue suede shin pads elvis?
oh ya, bertuzzi might show up in the next couple of weeks; he'll be looking for a new league that will accept him.

Posted by: pfg at February 22, 2006 10:17 PM