Post by Shamrockville on Apr 3, 2024 14:10:21 GMT -7
Shamrockville V Houston.
Game 1 in Houston.
The Patriots flew in to the “Hillary Duff Ice Palace” to start their season series with the Sundogs on Tuesday.
The Sundogs were feeling good about their season to date, staying in that .500 range with hopes of a playoff series still on their minds.
The reigning champions aimed to show them how horribly wrong they were.
The first period was all Patriots. The Sundogs must have still been in “Follies on Ice” mode from the previous evenings show because they were flatter than the beer foam they serve at the concourse bars.
Palmieri opens the scoring at 1:36 on a fine individual effort, followed up with Robertson potting a goal at 3:12 from Pavelski and Oleksiak to make it 2 – 0 before fans could even unwrap their souvenir Josh Manson bobble head dolls. Zadarov is given 2 minutes in the box by his coach because he was scaring the other Sundogs on the bench with his tirade about being on a team with no heart.
At 6:48 Nurse is given 2:00 minutes because he was STILL crying on the bench, there’s no crying in hockey! Neither power play produced a goal for the Patriots.
At 10:24 Hakanpaa starts the play up ice to Tkachuk at the blue line where Tkachuk spots Crosby slashing between the two Sundogs defenders, rips a pass to Crosby who makes no mistake and puts the puck past Sarros to extend the lead to 3-0.
At 11:36 Oleksiak get’s 2:00 minutes for leveling Eberle but the best chance comes from the Patriots as McDavid grabs a loose puck when Anderssons stick breaks, but he is unable to convert on the SH chance.
At 15:36 Robertson is again the recipient of a brilliant passing play from Bergeron and Oleksiak, and the Patriots are up 4-0. Crouse from Burns and Tavares at 16:24 and Burns from Crouse and Sturm at 16:48 finish the scoring in the 1st period and the Patriots are up 6-0 after 20 minutes.
The Sundogs are booking their tee times already.
At 1:12 of the second period, Tkachuk and Laine trade gloved fisticuffs after a whistle and are sent off for 2:00 each.
At 10:24 Eberle trips up Oleksiak near the boards and the big man comes up looking like he may have sprained his ankle, -1 for the remainder. Off the ensuing faceoff, Bergeron rips a shot that is a sure goal, but Andersson somehow manages to get his skate in the way to save another sure goal.
At 11:36 the linesmen call Eberle to make up for the missed call earlier, and because he whines so badly, they decide to make it 4:00 so they don’t have to listen to his mewling for a change. The Patriots make him pay and at 14:48, former Sundog, John Tavares pots a PP marker to make it 7-0 for the Patriots, McDavid and Crouse drawing assists.
At 15:12, another former Sundog, Brent Burns, pots his 2nd of the game to make it 8-0, Tavares and Nichushkin assisting on his tally.
16:24 sees Oleksiak looking for some revenge from the Sundog players, but all the cowards of the county have shown up and no one is willing to answer the bell. Queue 4:00 for Oleksiak, which the patriots penalty killers gladly kill off for him. So much for any 2nd period come back.
The third period starts off slow, the Patriots content to protect the lead and the Sundogs unable to generate any good scoring chances.
Finally at 10:24, Tavares again haunts his old team, taking a cross ice feed from Burns to put the Patriots up 9-0. From the ensuing faceoff, Nurse takes a chopping slash at Tavares who responds with a stick to the midsection, both players taking 2:00 and avoiding ejections.
At 11:12, Esa Lindell takes 2:00 for cross checking and Bergeron and Meier go for Roughing at 16:48 to round out the score sheet.
Shamrockville was: 57 shots, 16 quality for 8 ES goals and 1 PP goal. 37 Face off wins.
Houston was: 26 shots, 2 quality for 0 goals. 15 Face off wins.
Game 2 in Shamrockville
The return game across the Atlantic starts out very similar to the first game.
Crouse is sent in on a feed from Oleksiak and Robertson to make it 1-0 Patriots at 2:24. Looking to return the favor, Crouse drops a pass at a shift change to Pavelski who passes it up to Oleksiak and then on to Robertson to make it 2-0 at 3:36. A penalty to Robertson at 10:48 does nothing to ignite the visitors and things look grim for the Sundogs early, down 2-0 after one period.
In the 2nd, at 5:36 Crosby sees a glorious opportunity to make it 3-0 taken away by a sprawling Andersson who blocks his 2nd hard shot in the series.
At 6:48, McDavid takes a pass from Tavares and Burns to actually make it 3-0 for the Patriots who look to be in control once again.
11:12 sees Gus Nyqvist gets run over by Jeff Petry and needs some smelling salts on the bench to continue, albeit at -2.
Geekie gets caught with his head down by a lurking Lawson Crouse and he is also sent for some nasal remedy at 12:24 and would be -2 throughout.
The clearly outmatched Sundogs then get away with a clearly illegal check to Patriots goalie Hellebuyck, who has to leave the game at 14:00 and would not return, pushing a seldom used and unprepared Kuemper into the Patriots net. Would the Sundogs dastardly ploy work?
At 16:00, Crosby is whistled for a very questionable holding call and on the ensuing PP, Brandon Montour gets a piece of a Pettersson shot to get credit for the PP marker at 17:36. Nurse drawing the secondary assist. The Sundogs are on the board, down 3-1, but Jarnkrok takes a bad, late penalty at 19:36 to send them to the locker room with the wind taken out of their sails.
In the 3rd period, just as the penalty expires Lawson Crouse finishes a nice passing play from Burns and Tavares again to put the Patriots back up by 3 goals at 2:00.
Carlo and Nurse get into a spirited tilt at center ice at 7:36 and take 5 minutes to cool off while the crowd is roaring its approval.
Following that fight, at 10:00, Tavares again makes his former team pay with a goal off a pass from McDavid and Burns to make it 5-1. Patriots are clearly in control right? Wrong !!
A fuse is lit in the Sundogs and right off the next faceoff, Brandon Montour again rips a shot past Kuemper at 10:24 from Petterson and Zadarov to make it 5-2.
14:48 sees Petterson take a pass from Labanc and Nurse to go bar down past a useless Kuemper to make it 5-3.
Labanc takes 2:00 at 15:36 to cool off the Sundog attack, and this might have saved the game for the Patriots who use the PP time to regroup and slow things down.
They can’t stop the dogs from howling though and at 19:12 Nurse is sent in alone from Mangiapane and Sissons and he makes no mistake, putting a floater through Kuemper to make it 5-4.
Thankfully, the Patriots manage to hold off the desperate Sundogs with their goalie pulled and hold on to a 5-4 win on home ice. Kuemper is absolute dogshit, allowing 4 goals on 6 HS.
Shamrockville was: 47 shots, 15 quality for 5 ES Goals. 21 face off wins
Houston was: 16 shots, 2 quality for 0 goals vs Hellebuyck
20 shots, 7 quality for 3 ES goals and 1 PP goal vs Kuemper. 21 face off wins.
Shamrockville finishes 19-2-1, missing the 40 point plateau by a single point, THANKS Revelstoke…….
Game 1 in Houston.
The Patriots flew in to the “Hillary Duff Ice Palace” to start their season series with the Sundogs on Tuesday.
The Sundogs were feeling good about their season to date, staying in that .500 range with hopes of a playoff series still on their minds.
The reigning champions aimed to show them how horribly wrong they were.
The first period was all Patriots. The Sundogs must have still been in “Follies on Ice” mode from the previous evenings show because they were flatter than the beer foam they serve at the concourse bars.
Palmieri opens the scoring at 1:36 on a fine individual effort, followed up with Robertson potting a goal at 3:12 from Pavelski and Oleksiak to make it 2 – 0 before fans could even unwrap their souvenir Josh Manson bobble head dolls. Zadarov is given 2 minutes in the box by his coach because he was scaring the other Sundogs on the bench with his tirade about being on a team with no heart.
At 6:48 Nurse is given 2:00 minutes because he was STILL crying on the bench, there’s no crying in hockey! Neither power play produced a goal for the Patriots.
At 10:24 Hakanpaa starts the play up ice to Tkachuk at the blue line where Tkachuk spots Crosby slashing between the two Sundogs defenders, rips a pass to Crosby who makes no mistake and puts the puck past Sarros to extend the lead to 3-0.
At 11:36 Oleksiak get’s 2:00 minutes for leveling Eberle but the best chance comes from the Patriots as McDavid grabs a loose puck when Anderssons stick breaks, but he is unable to convert on the SH chance.
At 15:36 Robertson is again the recipient of a brilliant passing play from Bergeron and Oleksiak, and the Patriots are up 4-0. Crouse from Burns and Tavares at 16:24 and Burns from Crouse and Sturm at 16:48 finish the scoring in the 1st period and the Patriots are up 6-0 after 20 minutes.
The Sundogs are booking their tee times already.
At 1:12 of the second period, Tkachuk and Laine trade gloved fisticuffs after a whistle and are sent off for 2:00 each.
At 10:24 Eberle trips up Oleksiak near the boards and the big man comes up looking like he may have sprained his ankle, -1 for the remainder. Off the ensuing faceoff, Bergeron rips a shot that is a sure goal, but Andersson somehow manages to get his skate in the way to save another sure goal.
At 11:36 the linesmen call Eberle to make up for the missed call earlier, and because he whines so badly, they decide to make it 4:00 so they don’t have to listen to his mewling for a change. The Patriots make him pay and at 14:48, former Sundog, John Tavares pots a PP marker to make it 7-0 for the Patriots, McDavid and Crouse drawing assists.
At 15:12, another former Sundog, Brent Burns, pots his 2nd of the game to make it 8-0, Tavares and Nichushkin assisting on his tally.
16:24 sees Oleksiak looking for some revenge from the Sundog players, but all the cowards of the county have shown up and no one is willing to answer the bell. Queue 4:00 for Oleksiak, which the patriots penalty killers gladly kill off for him. So much for any 2nd period come back.
The third period starts off slow, the Patriots content to protect the lead and the Sundogs unable to generate any good scoring chances.
Finally at 10:24, Tavares again haunts his old team, taking a cross ice feed from Burns to put the Patriots up 9-0. From the ensuing faceoff, Nurse takes a chopping slash at Tavares who responds with a stick to the midsection, both players taking 2:00 and avoiding ejections.
At 11:12, Esa Lindell takes 2:00 for cross checking and Bergeron and Meier go for Roughing at 16:48 to round out the score sheet.
Shamrockville was: 57 shots, 16 quality for 8 ES goals and 1 PP goal. 37 Face off wins.
Houston was: 26 shots, 2 quality for 0 goals. 15 Face off wins.
Game 2 in Shamrockville
The return game across the Atlantic starts out very similar to the first game.
Crouse is sent in on a feed from Oleksiak and Robertson to make it 1-0 Patriots at 2:24. Looking to return the favor, Crouse drops a pass at a shift change to Pavelski who passes it up to Oleksiak and then on to Robertson to make it 2-0 at 3:36. A penalty to Robertson at 10:48 does nothing to ignite the visitors and things look grim for the Sundogs early, down 2-0 after one period.
In the 2nd, at 5:36 Crosby sees a glorious opportunity to make it 3-0 taken away by a sprawling Andersson who blocks his 2nd hard shot in the series.
At 6:48, McDavid takes a pass from Tavares and Burns to actually make it 3-0 for the Patriots who look to be in control once again.
11:12 sees Gus Nyqvist gets run over by Jeff Petry and needs some smelling salts on the bench to continue, albeit at -2.
Geekie gets caught with his head down by a lurking Lawson Crouse and he is also sent for some nasal remedy at 12:24 and would be -2 throughout.
The clearly outmatched Sundogs then get away with a clearly illegal check to Patriots goalie Hellebuyck, who has to leave the game at 14:00 and would not return, pushing a seldom used and unprepared Kuemper into the Patriots net. Would the Sundogs dastardly ploy work?
At 16:00, Crosby is whistled for a very questionable holding call and on the ensuing PP, Brandon Montour gets a piece of a Pettersson shot to get credit for the PP marker at 17:36. Nurse drawing the secondary assist. The Sundogs are on the board, down 3-1, but Jarnkrok takes a bad, late penalty at 19:36 to send them to the locker room with the wind taken out of their sails.
In the 3rd period, just as the penalty expires Lawson Crouse finishes a nice passing play from Burns and Tavares again to put the Patriots back up by 3 goals at 2:00.
Carlo and Nurse get into a spirited tilt at center ice at 7:36 and take 5 minutes to cool off while the crowd is roaring its approval.
Following that fight, at 10:00, Tavares again makes his former team pay with a goal off a pass from McDavid and Burns to make it 5-1. Patriots are clearly in control right? Wrong !!
A fuse is lit in the Sundogs and right off the next faceoff, Brandon Montour again rips a shot past Kuemper at 10:24 from Petterson and Zadarov to make it 5-2.
14:48 sees Petterson take a pass from Labanc and Nurse to go bar down past a useless Kuemper to make it 5-3.
Labanc takes 2:00 at 15:36 to cool off the Sundog attack, and this might have saved the game for the Patriots who use the PP time to regroup and slow things down.
They can’t stop the dogs from howling though and at 19:12 Nurse is sent in alone from Mangiapane and Sissons and he makes no mistake, putting a floater through Kuemper to make it 5-4.
Thankfully, the Patriots manage to hold off the desperate Sundogs with their goalie pulled and hold on to a 5-4 win on home ice. Kuemper is absolute dogshit, allowing 4 goals on 6 HS.
Shamrockville was: 47 shots, 15 quality for 5 ES Goals. 21 face off wins
Houston was: 16 shots, 2 quality for 0 goals vs Hellebuyck
20 shots, 7 quality for 3 ES goals and 1 PP goal vs Kuemper. 21 face off wins.
Shamrockville finishes 19-2-1, missing the 40 point plateau by a single point, THANKS Revelstoke…….