Week 6 proved to be a week of upsets as the Bronze League closed out the first half of the season. Three of the top four teams in the league went down including the undefeated Stingers.
The Stingers went down 5-3 against the Hurricanes in what was probably the best game of the night. Stingers goalie Dana Fenelli had a broken skate issue, and Ice Gators Netminder Bruno was called in to take over. Bruno did a good job of stopping 22 or the 26 shots the high powered Hurricanes blew on the Stingers, but ultimately it was not enough. The Stingers offense could not keep pace, and the undefeated three time champs went down.
The upset of the night might have been the Keller Indians who fell to the Spider Monkeys 6-3. The Indians offense was stumped by Spider Monkey’s star goalie, Mike Best who stopped 28 of 31 shots.
The next big upset of the night actually came Sunday morning as the Tomcast Senators beat the Ice Gators 8-4. Senators goaltender Rush “Mexico” Rector was solid stopping 39 of 43 shots from the high powered Gators offense. Gators sniper Zach Gunter had several one on one breakaways, but could only get past Mexico one time. Senators offense was led by Mac Donovan who notched a hat trick, and Matt Davis who had a four point night.
Dickie will post the full standings later. The best record still belongs to the Stingers who sit at 5- 1, but there is now a big group of teams one game back chasing in the quest for Lord Stanley’s Keg. The Indians, Sens, Canes, and Gators are all sitting on 4-2 and Mid Aid is just two back at 3-3. Mid Air did pitch a shut out against the bullets this week BTW.
Also it looks like the Jaguars have almost weathered a terrible storm as their roster is just one or two shy of being ready to stop forfeiting every game. They need a goalie, and word on the street is one is coming soon.
Monday, June 15, 2009
A Weekend of Big Upsets
Posted by Killer Carlson at 12:06 PM
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the Ice Gators, Stingers and Indians all go down....the Jaguars field a legitimate team....
Could this be the end of days as foretold in the book of Revelations??
thats too bad about the jaguars,the silver bulletts were counting on their gimmee game that everyone else got..maybe they can win a game if they get some ringers too...
Fun game against the Jaguars this week. Close, fun game, even though we lost. That goalie was crazy! I liked the spike of the puck after a particularly frantic shift around his net.
Rick
97 Angels
"Senators offense was led by Mac Donovan who notched a hat trick," and judging from the stats on league lineup that's pretty much every game. the leading scorer on every other team is around the 6 or 7 goal mark and this guy is at 13. Yet somehow it's the stingers and the gators who are too good and accused of bringing ringers in...interesting.
How's he going to live out his wildest dreams and impress the chicks unless he plays I league?
He's staring in his own movie and making up for that time he got cut from the high school squad....
Don't be a playa hata! Embrace his greatness and stroke his fragile ego or feel his wrath next the Senators show up on your schedule!
Be afraid, be very afraid......
* He makes goalies and onions cry
* His hockey bag smells of roses
* If there was a stick handling
gland, his would be larger than most men's entire lower intestines
* His jerseys never wrinkle
* He has never lost a faceoff
* If he disagrees with the ref, it is because the ref is wrong
* His hockey sweat cures cancer
* He wears a cup to protect the
other team
"I don't always take the shot, but when I do, I score"
"Stay one league down my friend"
THE MOST INTERESTING HOCKEY RINGER IN THE WORLD...or at least NYTEX
really has the talking crap started? because I find it funny that the senators cried about ringers then brought in a new defenseman. I don't care about mac because he has always been a part of that team and is not that good. I got news for yall im going back to my natural position of defense and there will be no more 8 goals against or hat tricks against the gators. im anything but a sniper so yeah yall should be the ones afraid because a player with one move isn't very scary at all. well good luck and I look forward to the next time we play especially when there pansy superstar tried to hit me and missed that was just funny he better keep his head up next time we play them. but yeah the rest of the senators are all cool except for the hypocrite and the douche.
Zach Gunter #21 GATORS
Zack are you calling Mac a hypocrite and douche or are you calling him a hypocrite and someone else a douche?
Just looking for clarity.
Looks like the Tomcast Senators hold the franchise edge over the Gators (2-1), having beat them 5-3 in their only match-up in the Winter Session.
In the games won by the Tomcast Senators, looks like they had 5 and 4 players, respectively, that scored goals.
Also looks like two players received 15 PIMs each in one of the games.
Brewing up to be a good playoff matchup. hope zach keeps up the trash talking, after getting dental insurance of course.
I think Zack Gunter is the most improved player in the bronze league. His speed has trippled since last season. I use to think he wasnt that fast, and there were at least three times I was chasing Zack into our zone as he pulled further and further away. The guy can flat out skate.
I think there are two reasons we beat the Gators #1 Senators Goalie Rush Rector played his ass off stopping several breakaways. #2 The Gators had basically nobody on the bench and by the end of the night were out of gas.
Zack Gunter can be as rough as he wants next time we meet. We can handle it. I do like this brewing rivalry we have going here. The Gators will be foaming at the mouth to take a bite out of the senators in the Stanley Keg Playoffs. Chomp Chomp.;
mac is a douche and the other guy who talked to me before the game who said if everyone would stop bringing ringers it would help things then they brought one but oh well and yeah what's hockey without intensity and rivalries right? and the reason its fun with the sens is that I do like and respect most of yall but yeah me and mac will have a fun showdown next time! Zach Gunter #21
Got to love it! The league is warming up and with only six games remaining lots of talking ect....
I was reminded yesterday in open hockey while playing with a few A & B leaguers their sons and few other random high school players of what we are here for. Lets have fun. I was by far the worst player, but they still included me even though I fumbled most of the time. Still they kept saying have fun and and the rest will come. Later I watched my 9 year old daughter's squirt team and the Mites (6-8 year olds) practice. They were having fun and learning how to play.
I will say its fun to win, but at what expense? This is supposed to be fun folks. I had got too wrapped up in winning. If we lose a bronze league game nobody really is going to give a shit. Last I saw we haven't had our results posted in the Star-Telegram.
Yes, we are going to have those players who don't belong in this league. We are going to have players and teams that refuse to move up. I bottom line comes down to us (players) and our coordinators to make that happen. All of the teams at the top are guilty of this. If those good players aren't helping the beginners let em know. Lets get back to having fun. Lets tip a couple of brews at Zu's after the game and laugh at our efforts. Personally I am much more interested in whats in the keg than the keg itself!!!!!!!
It is really great to see the improvement in the players week to week. Holy Cow! Zack Gunter has gotten so incredibly fast.
Hope to see several of you at skills class on Thursday.
Sens#2 (having fun again)
The defenseman for the Sens was their player coach for the evening. That being said.... Quit whining about Ringers. Every team in this league has players that don't belong. The only ones I ever see complainging afterwards is the losing team. I league is supposed to aid in the developement players. I do not agree with High level players playing in this league unless it is in a teaching role. Every team should have a coach!!! It's Instructional league. Player coach or behind the bench. The problem is most of you are not coachable. The teams that are winning and improving have coaches, player or traditional. Feneli for the Stingers is a great example. Bill Ivey with the Arc angels is another. I had Matt Davis play with our B league team last season so he could see the diffrence in quality of play.I hope all of the players in I league get the oppertunity to play the game the way it should be played, as a team. The only reason the Gators lost is because the guy with all the break aways didn't set up the offense in the offensive zone. Look at yourselves and what you could have done different to give your team a better scoring oppertunity. To all the ladies...GREAT JOB!!! The quality of play,passing and shooting by the females in this league is awsome...the boys could learn a thing or two from all of you. The girls registered more goals and assist this past weekend than ever before. Go out and have fun guys. HAVE FUN!!!! play the game with your team mates, talk to one another... on and off the ice during the game. This is a great league, I look forward to every Saturday night. Keep up the good work. Hallsy
Zach to speak for the Senators on the defenseman we had that game. Our team did not ask him to play. Our coach brought him out and told him to play with us so he could help out our defense who was out of position most of the time. We have rolled with our same team all season. To defend that kid though he sat back played defense did not take any slap shots or skate the puck up. He threw the puck in once for our guys to get it in. He did it the right way. Just ask the Hurricanes how many guys they have that can play in the Gold or Silver league. I hear it is a big number. This league should be about having fun and learning the game. Some people have forgotten about that. Oh yeah Zach you try to act like you are a normal Bronze Leaguer but you are just like the guys you complain about. You should be playing in just the Silver league where you are more evenly matched with the competition.
Senators
How close are the Jaguars to not forfitting every game?
oh really the people I complain about? I said one word about one person and that's cool now that I know we can bring a player coach to shut people down and make 80 foot breakout passes I will just have to do that and as far as playing silver league only if you wondering why certain gators have gotten better oh yeah because I do pass the and give my teammates chances. and its funny how someone who is a terrible coach thinks coaching is what's making there teams better when oh yeah we don't have a coach and we are one of the elite teams. for those people defending the senators saying I should be in silver only yall have two people who score more than me and yeah Im a silver defenseman but i don't have great hands or any of that so that's why I take the opportunity in bronze to work on stuff like and try to get better which oh yeah is the purpose of the league. but yeah I love it when people get mad and hate me that's part of hockey. so yeah i am sorry to the senators I called hypocrites because I realize its just your coach who thinks he's all knowing and a hockey genius when he's actually far from it. I've helped the gators more with my two and a half years of playing hockey then he has been able to help yall will all his years Haha and just so yall know I hope this league doesn't turn into an arms race because yall can't say anything because we have all been gators for awhile so its not like were bringing in new people but we can if that's the way yall want to play. because yeah im 19 so im thinking I know as many kids fresh out of high school who wouldn't be hard to convince to come play free hockey! so yall let me know and if the player coach is something we can do then yall will be shut out next time we play yall. and he can make 80 foot passes to me and I will have 10 break aways not 3. but yeah im done talking for now but yeah just so yall know im a competitor just as most of my teammates are so I have another level come playoff time. Zach Gunter #21
Isn't it interesting how everyone wants to talk shit about other teams and doesn't like other teams talking shit about them? There's a lot to be said for sportsmanship starting from teams not bringing on players that don't belong to making personal attacks out of everything but most of all people who just want to bitch and moan. That's what started all of this. A lot of people want to talk shit about the "top" teams in the league instead of working on their individual and team faults. Listen to the pro coaches and players (with the exception of assholes like Avery and Crosby) you won't hear people dissing other players or teams. it's just not cool or called for. That's one of the things that separates hockey from the lesser sports. I strongly suggest this board be deleted from existence. I think it starts all the wrong things brewing. What's on the ice should stay on the ice and ideas for improvements and actual non-destructive dialogue for change should be taking place through the coordinators of the teams going through the right channels. Having a forum like this gives the squeaky wheels (AKA bitches who just want to start trouble) a place to shout louder than the voice of reason.
Delicious.
FUN!!!!!! BOYS... FUN !!!!!!
By the way I thought my break away pass was about 60 feet, but thanks for the compliment. I am still hoping for that first assist though.
Sens #2
Hallsy is right. Lets hear it for the girls!!! We played against Mrs. Bruno she has improved alot since last season. Her team did make sure to include her in passes and she was able to receive control and pass. Our own Meagan has steadily improved each week. She is better at staying in position than myself and is a reliable outlet for the D. The rest of the girls have been getting better and scoring goals. Us boys better watch out. Great times!!!
Sens #2
Please do not discontinue this blog...The bitching amuses the 90% of us that don't give a rip about who we play with or against. Just love the chance to burn almost as many calories as consumed at Zuromas afterwards. In the words of that wise sage Rodney King..."can't we all just get along?" But I suppose if we all did get along it would lead to a boring blog so go ahead and let er rip boys/girls!
Just keep in mind, at the end of the day, we're all just playing dress up, play pretend hockey players.
I cant wait to hit the ice this weekend and cream some punks from the Gators. I think I will put foil in my gloves, and really give the fans what they want to see.
#4206999123
Ice Angeluars
Jim Bob
I cant wait to skate into the zone with Zack back on D. But I may not have to since half our roster is going to be imported from Europe for the night. Look out for our new goalie, Igor Ivanafukurfaceoff. He's 7'3" 400 lbs and has the reflexes of a hummingbird.
To those worried we might discontinue this blog... you have nothing to worry about there.
As long as people keep reading and commenting, it will exist.
Got to love anyone named Jim Bob. Great comments!!!!
Jim Billy
please keep your comments to 2 sentences max. these posts are too long for my ADD brain. and another thing,
it was a good game last week. Gunter got like 100 breakaways and I was exhausted after the game. I wish every game was as fun as when we play the gators, they are a good bunch of guys.
Mexico
Goalie - Senators
i think i got sum chuck norris refrences lmao but i do have to note that i know for a fact my bag doesnt smell like roses....so does everyone else on the senators knows it doesnt lol.
and gunter u can play D or what ever u want i dont really care if im not really that good like you say than u should keep my name out of ur mouth and just look away like you did last night at the game. But other wise thanks for talkin about me lol was amusing to me haha
Sorry to derail the conversation, but I must know; how good are hummingbird's reflexes?
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