UPPER VALLEY HOCKEY LEAGUE

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Avs 4-2; Potter 3-2-1; Storm Kings 2-3-1; Stars 2-4 halfway through Muds

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The highlight thus far in the season has to be the play of Stars goaltender John Turner, otherwise known as JT. His resurgence has been incredible, and at 36 years old is showing the skill and poise of a veteran pro goaltender. He gives the offensively challenged rag-tag Stars a chance to be in, and even win, every game. The Rutland-based Avs have taken the UVHL's Mud league by storm, and are playing like they have something to prove, and are sitting in first place halfway through the brief 12-game spring regular season. Hartford's Potter Construction has said "its better to lose a few in the regular season rather than go undefeated", and they are speaking from experience as they have done that at least once in the spring only to lose in the Finals. The Storm Kings are ever dangerous, but have not had all of their big guns together at one game, and they are slowly developing some team game with the newcomers and could and should threaten for the "Mud Bowl" (its kind of a bowl, eh, so calling it a "cup" wouldn't do it justice). This week the Avs split their games falling to Potter who predicted that "we'll know how to handle the blue helmets better next time", and Potter did just that keeping both Dr. McSelfish and Dr. McBiceps off the scoresheet in a 6-2 impressive thumping of the Avs. Potter F Dan McGee had 2G, 1A including the GWG against the Avs to lead his team to victory. The Avalanche came back strong against the Storm Kings and had a 7-2 lead at one point, but the Kingers scored 3 goals in less than 5 minutes late in the third to bring it to a mere 7-5 lead. Avs goaltender Pete Bartline saw 50+ shots, most of them in the third, and he just held off the potent Storm Kings attack with Hogg, Turco and Cashman wheelin' and dealin' trying for the comeback. With Frenchy pulled the Kings almost made it a 1-goal game with about 20 seconds left, but Bartline got a piece of it and the Avs killed off the clock. Only he would do it, but Avs F Chris Johnson took a one-timer at the empty net off a feed from McSelfish, but it would have given Johnson the Hatty so he is formally excused from public ridicule (okay, you can still bust his balls, but only a little bit). Dr. McSelfish had 3G and the GWA for a well deserved POW nod. The Storm Kings beat the Stars in a goaltender's duel 3-1, and it was three shit goals out of four that were the difference. The game was 0-0 until part-way through the third period, and the Stars were playing well defensively limiting the Kings chances, and the ones that did get through to JT were snuffed quickly by his A-game that was playoff worthy. The Stars scored TWO goals on JT, more than the frickin' Storm Kings scored on him! Brooootal! The only legit goal in the entire game was a PPG by the Kingers because on the Stars lone goal Frenchy coughed up a gift to Jason Loomis on a clearing attempt that Loomis tapped in for the stinker. However, none of the goals were worse than the TWO the Stars scored on their own net, and one goal is not enough to support your amazing goaltender against an offensive juggernaut like the Kings and expect to win. In my opinion, it was a 1-0 win for the Kings on the PPG, but they all count even if they are shitty. JT continued his lava-like hot streak and erupted again with perhaps an even better game against Potter. Kelly Park ranked it as JT's A+++ game, and it really was. There was noone even close to JT this week for POW, but we had to fill 4 more slots, and JT was the standout hockey player of the week without a doubt. It was definitely the best back-to-back games by a UVHLer all season, maybe ever. The Stars finally showed up with 3 forward lines for the first game all season, and combined with JT's heriocs the three lines, including the extra strength Preparation-H line of Heavisides, Hadley and Hanbury, made all the difference. The Stars somehow found themselves up 3-0, and McD-fense came off the bench and told his center that "this is the most important shift of the game, we can't give up a goal". You can imagaine what happened next...Potter F Will Meyer took the puck off the face-off, beat the center for the puck, beat the left D with speed, and then got a shot off as the right D was getting a stick on him for the goal. Ooops. So much for the most important shift of the game. Minus-1 for McD-fense...and plus-1 for Meyer who scored an important clutch goal to return it to a 2-goal game. Too bad for Potter that Hadley caught fire and ended up with 2G, 2A in his best performance EVER out of the net, and the final score was 6-1 Stars for the upset. This was a fun, fast, clean game and is what the UVHL is all about. Oh yeah, did I mention that JT was ABSOLUTELY FUCKING RETARDED in net? He was, and for more on that check out the FORUM post on JT. McD-fense OUT!

 

Team:	Time:	Type:	Player:	Details:
STR	00:00	Goal	Park, Kelly(1)	Assist(s): O'Neil, Michael(1)
STR	00:00	Goal	O'Neil, Michael(1)	Assist(s): Crapser, Drew(1)
STR	00:00	Goal	Hadley, Gregory(1)	Assist(s): none
PTR	00:00	Goal	Meyer, Will(1)	Assist(s): Barwood, Justin(1)
STR	00:00	Goal	Heavisides, Douglas(1)	Assist(s): Hadley, Gregory(1) Hanbury, Peter(1)
STR	00:00	Goal	Heavisides, Douglas(1)	Assist(s): Hadley, Gregory(1)
STR	00:00	Goal	Hadley, Gregory(1)	Assist(s): Hanbury, Peter(1)
STR	00:00	Penalty	Loomis, Jason(1)	2 minutes for Holding
PTR	00:00	Penalty	Obar, Jake(1)	2 minutes for Delay of Game
PTR	00:00	Penalty	Shaw, Anthony(1)	2 minutes for Tripping
PTR	00:00	Penalty	Potter, Matt(1)	2 minutes for Holding

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