Slumpbusters paying off...

SCREW THE CELLAR BEE-ACH! The somewhat challenged collection of hockey geniuses known as the Arrowhawks finally found a way to grab a 'W' tonight, besting the Big Pucks 6-4, this time in regulation. Santho was stellar again, otherwise the Hawks could have won by more. [editor's note: bum left wrist from taking faceoffs against Wharton all night makes typing painful (hold the shrewd wrist comments)]. Anyone else bothered by my opening paragraph? Seems long, with too many commas. If you are a grammatical genius (like us hockey geniuses) just look the other way.

If you missed tonight's contest you should be ashamed of yourself. After all, what could possibly be better to watch then a bunch of grown men trying to prove their worth on the choppy ice in Dublin, Ohio?

Here's what you missed:

• Hawks scored first. It was a brilliant goal, one of the absolute best goals ever seen by these eyes. Don't remember what happened exactly, but I think it involved a lot of poking in the crease (don't get excited, Barry) with Monahan, Morgan and Jensen finally plugging the pill past a pissed-off Santho. "Are you going to call that a goal, too?!!!" Santho would later exclaim, drawing a penalty.
• #99 of the Big Pucks is big. And he likes to show it. Surprisingly, he also can move pretty well and can carry the puck. That is, when he's on the ice. Unfortunately for the Pucks, the story of the night was their inability to stay out of the penalty box. They were on the penalty kill (or as Kevin calls it, Power Kill) seven times tonight.
• Andrew Daniels, Hawks netminder, turned away some glorious Big Puck chances. The Hawks defense was absolutely incredible 25% of the time, somewhat incredible 6% of the time and absolutely freakin' scrambling 43% of the time. But that [ouch, wrist is killing me!] coupled with Daniel's really tallness and all black Johnny Cash outfit did the trick.
• Thing I hate about fuzzy videos with blog cameras is, even in crappy quality I can see how bad a skater I am. I just don't get it. It's a paradox. I know when I'm out there I'm skating a hundred miles per hour [figuratively speaking] and look great. Then I see the video. Ugh. Camera adds 10 pounds and takes away 10 MPH!!!!
• Freakin Ken needs to learn how to shoot the puck so it goes in the SMALL NET the goalie protects, not the BIG NET that protects the wall of the rink. Jeez, did you go to Jason Chimera's school of shooting into the ocean?
• Santho has a quick glove
• Terry snapped off some great scoring chances and almost potted two goals off Monahan passes.
• Mark is really good.
• G. Ted is G. Good playing on the blueline for the Hawks. Rumor has it the Check Republic team is coming back to Friday's this fall. Here's hoping they don't so G. Ted can continue to be G. Awesome.
• Gooch didn't fall once during the opening period.
• Jensen is like one of those spinning tops on the ice, only with a stick in his hand and a crazed look in his eye.
• Oleg doesn't use his sauna in the summer. Duh! Found that out after asking him about it during the game.

Ok that's all I can take. Good night all you beer-league hockey fans. Sleep well and do your best to avoid long run-on sentences...

Cheers!
RT

The victory moves the Hawks into almost last place and positions them in the final playoff spot, with a 2-7-1 record. Somewhere Scott Arniel is jealous.

Oh, and my CPU doesn't have sound at the moment, so if there's really bad audio to match the really shaky, fuzzy video, sorry. Turn off your sound. There, problem fixed!