Blue Fins Lose Cool Against Labatt’s (6/9/08)
For the Blue Fins, it was their first real test in the C2 league. Labatt’s had been putting up some big wins and notching a lot of goals as of late.
Captain Mike McGee’s strategy was to put his best (present company’s literary prowess excluded) on defense. It was a sound strategy, but relied on the defense to finish with goals as well. Taking nothing away from the offense - all six forwards work furiously hard - but are more grind than glamour.
After Labatt’s scored the first goal, Keith ‘THE WHITE SHADOW’ Locker - scored his most spectacular goal as a Blue Fin. He took the puck over the blue line, took 3 hard strides and buried the puck in the back of the net. As THE WHITE SHADOW deservingly shook his fist, the Labatt’s goalie appeared to take a swipe as he went by…and such started the Blue Fins woes.
In terms of physical play, the Blue Fins give as good as they get - but only react - rather than provoke. In this case, the provocation was handled solely by the inept officiating crew. In this game the Fins visited the ‘Sin Bin’ twice as often as Labatt’s - and it hurt. Although they only gave up 1 power play goal, playing a man down emptied the Fins tanks too soon.
The game see-sawed back and forth, but with each Blue Fins goal - Labatt’s topped it with one more of their own.
John ‘Afternoon Delight’ Probasco tallied a hat trick thanks to a blistering slap shot and two break aways. On each breakaway, Probasco had the puck on a string and he had at least a move or two more than the goalie could handle.
Not helping matters for the Blue Fins - the refs and Shrek Jr. allowed Labatt’s star (Barney) Fyfe score 4 goals. This was only noticed by Captain Mike McGee well after the game had ended. E.J. ‘Insert Expletive’ Stern promised to ‘Look into It’. Thanks for the attention to detail, E.J.
McGee, with his back-up stick, and Steve ‘Choo-Choo’ Tsotsoros worked hard to score a hard working goal. McGee fought off 2 defenders and the Labatt’s goalie and Tsotsoros slammed the puck home - and cut the lead to 2 goals. (McGee, with his back-up stick, gets the assist - no thanks to Poinstreak!)
Once again Labatt’s increased their lead to 3 and that’s how the game ended. Other hard working Blue Fins included Joe ‘More is More’ Moreschi - made a key diving poke check and cleared the puck while face first on the ice; Matt ‘Speed Racer’ Pusateri carried the puck well - despite being mugged over and over by the Labatt’s defenders; and finally - Dan ‘The Man’ Fahey returned to the Blue Fins without missing a step.
Next up for the Blue Fins is ‘The Crunch’ - Monday June 16, at 7:00 pm.
Be sure to tune in, as this episode is bound to have a Twiss(t)….or two!