WEEKLY UPDATE

The buzz you heard from The Springfield Ice Rink last night was coming from the White squads youngsters Shane Dunfee & Craig Hedricks, these two brought life to the rink with their speed & high skill level. But even with these two burners the Darkies were able to skate away with a hard fought victory despite a late White surge. The Dark squad were led by the veteran defense pairings of Crabby & Murph, & Crafty Craskey & the Hurricane Unger, their experience was to much for the youug stars. Murph & Crabby used physical play while Crafty & Carl tried to match their speed to do the job.
On offense, the Darkies were able to build a lead behind the typical unselfish play of Brit & the quick hands & feet of Curty Down Low. Quiet Brian & Gluten Johnny also had strong efforts posting points & working hard in their own zone. The Bonner Connection hooked up when Crafty sent a beautiful homerun pass on the tape of Quiet Brian while in full stride, QB made a nice deke to his backhand for the goal. The Darkies also welcomed the fresh legs of Liam at about 9:30, as usual he hustled up a good thirst & earned his sudsy reward.
The White squad followed the lead of the young guns & played the game in fast forward most of the night, swarming the zone & forcing good scoring chances. The Commish & Fricker had some quality chances but were turned away yet continued their strong fore check while battling back into the game. It looked for awhile like the Darkies would pull away but Tree would not allow that to happen as he settled his team down with some big saves, & JD was able to get them on the board & rolling. Soon after that "Tony Romo" & Johnny Long Pants turned up the heat from the back line joining Timmy C consistently jumping into the play. The result was a flurry of late goals to make the game close, but Dark was able to hang on until Brit scored to open the cooler. Shane Dunfee added a little more excitement when he almost took my head off with a blast from the slot which left a huge bruise on my collar bone, I sholud have ducked instead of jumping.
The milk carton gang for this week was
Rusty, taking his annual deer piss golden shower
Daddy Pat, working a little OT to pay for all those Christmas presents he has to get the Kids.
Jaybird & Chuck, off playing cops & robbers
Shooter, oiling his new hip
& Spongee, who was trying to buy tickets to next seasons Iowa/Minnesota football game.
Crabby did a nice job with the beers, cold LaBatts bottles & some nice CANS too.
Remember guys, here at the TNHL our standards are high, so up yours!