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Another win – 4-1 against Estonia. They play Iceland, the only other unbeaten team tomorrow, and if they win that, they just have to kick Turkey’s butt for the gold medal and promotion.
That’s umm. Weird. The comment about Wgtn doesn’t match the little I know about Wellington’s attempts to get an ice rink, but I’m not too well informed.
It isn’t on the schedule.
I wonder if, given that the schedule has all teams coming together for these tournament things, if people will be selected at tournaments rather than coming together for trials.
Yeah. The main stress relief seems to be to drive him into the boards next chance you get. Or a good trip. Up to you really. People will support you either way!
I didn’t catch all the game, but it seemed like you guys pushed them pretty close, which is good. Looked like the competition could have been a cake-walk for them when you saw the lineups, but 3-2 is a good score in what was effectively a final.
Dunedin Green/Thunder win the Easton Cup, and associated Easter Eggs, after taking their game over Dunedin Graham/Oldtimers, 3-2 (real close game, couple of disallowed chances in the Thunder net, and a last minute goal from King getting them over the line.
Old timers come second, Gore 3rd. Some good games of hockey.
"NickR":fz1o0r2v wrote:We’re also likely to turn up early in the (vain?) hope of getting our skates sharpened.
[/quote:fz1o0r2v]Haha! Nick made an (unintentional) funny.
Ah, cheers Michael.
I have to say, the 5 minute three on five was weird. When Kings had the puck, Bullfrogs didn’t have much pressure on them. Typically when you’re two men up and the other team has the puck, you’d put at least two players on it. Bullfrogs were still waiting around for Kings to make their move and hanging back. Often there was no one on the puck. And at one stage one Kings player retrieved a dump-in, and the other two casually changed. It was second period, a really slow change, so one Kings player was playing 1 on 5, and he held possession and got the pass up ice to his team mates.
Yes we had all sorts of excitement last night. Mike’s ankle got turned at an angle, you never want to see an ankle turned to, particularly if it’s yours. It was out at about right angles, and I have no idea how much pain he must have been in when they took his skate off. Everything was delayed for 45 minutes while the ambulance crew treated him on the ice, including injections and healthy amounts of laughing gas. So that game finished with 1.38 still on the clock (I think 3-1 to Bulls?). I don’t think we’ll be seeing him on the ice for a few months.
Then Kings played Bullfrogs, and during an altercation on the ice, two Kings players jumped straight off the bench to intervene on behalf of their player. So they both got game misconducts and spent the rest of the game in the stands. Seriously, do people not know this rule? Don’t leave the bench guys! So they played 3 on 5 for 5 minutes, but came out of it with one goal for each side, and won… 6-2?
Old Buggers played Beasts and won 4-2. Old Buggers started with no subs, but finished with 2, which was bloody luxury really. Big hat trick for Matthews – can’t remember getting one of these before. Reymond bitches endlessly about how I cheated on one of them, but seriously, it’s only tripping if you get caught! So lets call it “brilliantly getting away with hooking my lifted foot around Reymond’s leg and getting him down to the ice and then stealing the puck off him and scoring a goal”. Sweet.
Last game was Sharks-Jets. Jets had been bumped up with a couple of new faces, and a couple of old timers double-shifting. In actual fact, it looks almost like the old timers playing with different tops on. Close game, with new goalie import Vince in net for the Jets, Sharks were unable to get first and second shots in, despite a bundle of pressure. Eventually they got the go ahead goal to Liam Roth in the third, and it finished 1-0, Stefan King with the big shutout. Everyone got home at about 11.15.
"battered_and_bruised":23uu89j3 wrote:Yes it is official…speaking of which, you think we could make a Thunder website at some point?
[/quote:23uu89j3]I certainly hope so. We’ll just someone to design it – it’ll need a different brand etc.
