WEEKLY UPDATE

The warm weather & the release of Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit Issue must have gotten the juices flowing. Both benches were overflowing which means it was a good pace. The Darkie skated away with this one after some shaky goal tending allowed a three goal lead slip away. Spritle & Curty Downlow were up to their old tricks using some long passes to set up some sweet goals for the Darkies. Curty may have sealed the deal with the people from "Enzite" picking out the spot on the end boards where he thinks the advertisement should be placed by making his stick an interesting prop. Shooter continues his quest to lead the TNHL in goals despite his recent hip replacement surgery. It looks like dyslexia may be a side effect of the surgery, on the rare occurrence that Shooter is in his own zone with the puck on his stick he appears to be bearing down on his own goalie with the blue line behind him. Carl returned after a long absence due to injury & played well, as expected, ending the longest menstrual cycle in history. Fricker turned in another A game & is having a career year. Somehow Quiet Brian ended up in a Dark jersey & was a welcomed addition, his leadership along with that of Daddy Pat has helped rookie sensation Kevin almost master the art of hopping over the boards. That trio was all over the stat sheet, Daddy Pat & Quiet Brian usually are but now the rookie has a goal in two straight. I wonder what his jersey will proclaim him to be this week. Murph got a little fired up this week & his game had an edge to it which made my job a little easier, as did my pre-game talk with Jbird, his scouting reports & stay at home style are something I look forward to.
The White squad let a good effort from Tree slip away. Early on he made an unbelievable glove save after a scramble in the slot & had several more great saves throughout. Johnny Longpants brought along his little side kick Digger this week & they teamed up for a couple of goals, JLP was really flying in this one. Tiny Tim's wife let him rejoin us this week, either that or he hid the " Honey-Do-List" under the new floor. Tim was another guy that was all over the ice & scored the last goal of the night. Rusty started slowly but after a brief word from our sponsors he played large grinning like "Smiling Bob" after scoring a goal. Tony Romo didn't see his usual amount of ice time due to the crowded benches but he was effective none the less, breaking up several Dark chances & pitching in on offense. Rudy picked up his weekly points but was mostly handled by a strong defensive effort from the Darkies. Chuck was Chuck, playing his trademark chaotic style. He did manage to wake a sleeping giant in Murph with a slewfoot.

SLEWFOOT: Sweeping you leg behind the skates of your opponent in an attempt to make that person fall to the ice on his back. Dangerous, Dirty, Cheap.
In Chuck's defense he said he did not Know what he had done to Murph, this should help clear up any confusion & hopefully will prevent this from happening in the future.

On a lighter note, pucks were flying out of the rink last night into all parts of the arena. So what are the chances that the same fan would get two pucks in the same game! Crazy.
The goal of the night came off the stick of Crabby, trust me it was a laser, I mean I never saw the puck just the vapor trail. Then there was Spongee play full tilt as always, at one point he had dropped his stick but instead of quitting on the play Spongee back checked without it. In what appeared to be a show of sportsmanship the Dark team tried to give him his stick back I then realized we wanted him to have his stick with the puck somewhere near it, that's when good things happen. What can you say about Liam, he would never tell anyone about what he does in his free time but I have pictures. Here he is after fighting fires in Australia Liam found time to give a koala bear some spring water, what a guy.
Peter Forsberg continues his search for a comfortable skate, hopefully the Commish will return this week. The rookie did a great job with the beer & sported the nicest cooler ever rolled into the room.