Five Again?

Canadian Goose took the ice Saturday with what is becoming the norm for this season; 6 players. Pinkie made his first appearance this season with the daunting task of keeping Lincoln Station from scoring as they had 10 skaters. Mickie also made his return after a month lay off.

As the other members for CG were out drinking the six players that showed up to the game put an amazing effort forth and had a 5-1 lead going into the third period in spite of some chippy play. The third period was not so forgiving for the beleaguered players and Lincoln Station tied the game with 2 minutes left. Goose fell into a tired defensive shell and decided to win the game in the shoot-out with Pinkie back-stopping them. Then with 1:30 left in the game CG had to kill a penalty for the rest of the game. Keeping the power play to the perimeter it looked like CG would be able to kill the penalty. Then a perfect cross pass which was redirected past Pinkie with 30 seconds left. The goal deflated the sails of CG who did not have the energy nor the man-power to pull the goalie for 6 attackers and make an attempt to tie the game.

After the second game in a row with 6 players the commitment problems the team is having are a major reason that the team is at the bottom of the league and are in danger of missing the playoffs after winning the Winter Championship. Trade deadline has come and gone and CG is in dire straits to find people to take the ice. We shall see how many players show up for the Saturday game at 1:50 against the Boozehounds.

Five is Enough

Canadian Goose came to the rink a little cloudy on an early Sunday game at noon. The door to the locker room was not used much because 5 skaters showed up. Old and in the Way did not give much respect to CG offering to give them players before the start of the game. Then 9 seconds in Cheese let in a goal from the top of the circle. That charity was quickly resinded as Goose prodeeded to score 3 straight goals in the first period. Midway through the game CG was coasting with a 6-2 lead. Then at the tail end of the peroid Old and in the Way began climbing back with 2 shorthanded goals during the same power play. This let down woke up the tired CG team. They had been down this road to many times this season in which few players show up to a game and they did not want to go into a shootout. In the third the score was tied at 8, then CG netted 2 more goals to skate away with a hard fought victory after Old and In the Way hit a ton of posts. Silent was the winner of the jacket, even though niether jacket nor people were the in the rink. Silent had a hand in every point that CG scored netting 8 goals with 2 assists setting a Candian Goose record for most points in a game. When asked to comment about the record setting performance Silent said that he was happy to carry the team to victory. IB Robbie played the entire game with a stick blade that was broken otherwise Silent might not have taken the goals and points lead way from him. Canadian Goose takes the ice this Saturday against the second place Lincoln Station at 11:10p.m. for another stellar ice slot in which 7 skaters will show up to.