Born to Run

"If I end up on your team, or the B team or whatever...If I can make 10 or 15 plays that help set up goals, then I'm happy. You have to be realistic."

“Nick, your lack of hockey knowledge is quite understandable. You're a lackey.”-Former Blogger

Well, then, If this recap is completely off base then its understandable I guess?

Game Time

Since I started playing hockey with you guys I always felt that Borges was the best overall player we had. He was always the most well rounded player. Scoring, Slap shots or ball carrying skills...he could do it all. Sure Johnny and Jared may have been better pure scorers but Borges always seemed to be atop the multiple scoresheets at the end of the night. Ron may have had a better slap shot. But Borges’ slap shot has always been lethal from anywhere(mostly because he got better opportunities than me and rick green may be scared of the ball, duck!!!!). That may all be true. But scoring is all Jared has. Slap shots are all I think of when I think of Ron (and the mustache) but, JB, yeah he could do it all. He’s the best. You wanted him as your first line center, you wanted him on your first D pair. He was kind of a rich man’s Mike D. Or Mike is a poor man’s JB. However you want to look at it. Glass half full kind of thing.

This however was the worst I have ever seen JB. What a disaster.

Scratch that..disaster doesn’t describe this debacle. And it lasted basically all day on Saturday.

I guess the best way to put it is this way:

If I were to tell you before the weekend that JB would have the same amount of goals as Nick and less goals than MVW on Saturday...what would you have said our record would be?

Winning one game sounds impressive now huh?

Game 1: I hate hockey.

This game started off horribly.

Did I mention how awful JB was?

Nick was a train wreck on defense. Jack b-lite.

Ron was painfully slow getting back. Making it very obvious he wanted nothing to do with defense.

Griff was awful. But somehow, yet again, wasn’t the problem.

MVW was crashing into fences recklessly. Probably not what we were looking for.

Brett was forgettable. Which I think was something to strive for in a game like this.

Jared was odious? I don’t know Im running out of adjectives.

Bad. 

Bad is the word.  

Everyone was awful. But despite Elmira's lasting effects we were only behind in the game by a couple goals at the 15 minute mark.

It only got a little better.

After getting a quick goal by Jared to cut the deficit in half, Brett gave up his worst goal of the tournament (thus far). A slap shot from about the center line to make the deficit back to two with a score of 3-1. The defenseman probably should have blocked it too.

But the Alliance were not done. After a very poor first half, Jared was able to score yet another goal to cut Red Sauce’s lead to 3-2.

But in typical Alliance fashion, we gave back the momentum. “We don’t want this”

Quickly any hope of a comeback was gone. Two quick goals by the Hot Sauce made the score 5-2.

But then MVW made his arrival. And he rode that high all weekend. 2 unanswered goals. 2 improbable goals.

With the score now 5-4 thanks to Mike W the Alliance had a chance to pull the game out. 

But then the most embarrassing play in Alliance history finished us off. With time running out our captain decided to pull the goalie. JB had control of the ball behind our net and for some reason Borges decided to do the “flip pass”. Ya know the pass that we decided to ban from the tournament because no one could consistently execute it?  Believe it or not JB flubbed the pass right into the chest of Brett as he tried to get off the ice for the extra attacker. The ball rolled into our net. Sealing the victory for the Big Sauce. 6-4 deficit. 6-4 Loss.

Pathetic.

Game 2: We belong?