UPPER VALLEY HOCKEY LEAGUE

ODDS:	Tuck by 1
OVER/UNDER:	6 goals

Hmmm...if the Brewers have 2 lines then this will be a very even game. The Brewers can play, but need numbers to compete over a full 3 periods. Tuck is looking great out of the gate this season, and they are on a roll, but may have taken advantage of the newly created Dead River Oilers and the struggling Whalers squads. Once again, if the Brewers have enough players then I give them an even chance of winning, If not, Tuck will be 3-0 after tonight. This will be a goalie's duel between Yacey and Crowson, and could be low scoring for men's league, maybe 3-2 or 4-3 for the yet to be named winner.

Tuck rolls through the Brewers......who looked drunk.

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WE WELCOME GUEST WRITER ROBERT GRUNDSTEIN (aka rgrunds in the UVHL Forum) THIS WEEK FOR OUR WEEK 3 GAME WRITE-UPS! Rename Your Children Yacey Last year Tuck could score, but had trouble in their own end. This year they don't. As a matter of fact, they have improved on offense and defense and the other teams will have to do a little adjusting to catch up. Make that a lot of adjusting. Yacey in net....Coughlin with seven points....my aching manhood. 80-77-2....77-80-12....77-2-5.... The first period started well with fast, controlled end to end action. Everybody looked like they were on a team or something. Bartline moved extremely well in his debut return but was probably just trying to get Marshy to notice him, now that Hadley has returned...sort of...notwithstanding surgery. At any rate, Tuck scored at 11:32 after the Brewers made a bad pass to center and turned over the puck. Tuck walked in and fired the puck into the glove side corner. Wasn't Bartline's fault and like the good citizen he is, controlled himself for the siege. The theme of capitalizing on Brewer mistakes continued. At 6:41 the Brewers neglected the end of a penalty and watched Tuck enter their zone like a 13 year old advancing on a porn shop. It seemed to be a deliberate attempt to imitate the Nords, except no one on the Brewers had the K Park excuse of skating like pregnant poultry. When the mind fails, the body will follow. Pay attention. Penalties are marked by large, red, moving numbers that keep changing. Bartline was called upon to keep his team from losing by a factor of 10, and did so. His defense started collapsing on him just after the middle of the first period and continued to do so for the rest of the game. Bartline moved fluently to save at 5:11, tracked the puck beautifully at 2:59 and saved twice at 59 seconds. The 2nd period started with a catered affair in front of the Brewer net. Tuck scored after 5 shots on goal and 12 rebounds. Bartline went to the officials and asked if Tuck should remove the tanning booth from the slot since it is not a rest area. The officials declined to rule. In a fit of picque, the Brewers charged down the ice, beat the defense in the slot and scored a very quick goal on Yacey. But it wouldn't last. The Brewers were able to get some shots over the course of the game, but not the same quality as Tuck. At 9:01 Tuck gained control of the Brewer slot but Bartline stopped them until Coughlin and his Gang of Two scored after three shots and two rebounds while the Brewer defense watched. I looked for signs of anger from Bartline...blood pouring from his helmet...froth around his neck.....his teeth secured to the calf of a teammate...nothing. The Brewers came back to challenge Yacey, but that is a low return proposition. Yacey made a heroic toe save at 7:20 after which Coughlin and his unfair entourage screamed up the ice to shoot close four times on Bartline who made three saves prior to the goal while his defense wondered what to do next. Then, at 6:30 Bartline made another beauty. The Brewers came back again but Yacey stopped them on three saves from about 5 feet out. The Brewers started to look consistently better with 2 minutes left in the 2nd, but so what. The only way to score on Yacey is if he throws the puck in his own net. Tuck continued to distribute the ice better and avoid risky passes to the center. The Brewers tended to crowd themselves. With 6 seconds to go, the Brewers caught a break when McD ruined a breakout for Tuck. Tuck brought the puck up the far boards and was just about to drive across the redline when McD couldn't get out of the way after watching the play develop for about....15 seconds. McD stood there like a torn paper bag afterwards and made a weak gesture towards K. Park. For what? To share in the blame? Request for absolution? Help me with my underwear? Just incomprehensible twitching after an embarrassment? Lucky for Brewers. The third period changed little. Coughlin and his co-felons continued to score on an unlikely, oblique shot at 13:40. The Brewers tried again but couldn't get the puck past Yacey who timed a pass perfectly at 11:15, saved two in close at 10:37 and made 2 withering saves at 3:09.. They finally did score on a well executed puck circulation which isolated Yacey with 1:10 to go, but it was too late. Tuck continued to set up a box in the Brewer zone and scored their last goal on a weenie that entered the net at ½ ft/hour. The Brewer defense looked fooled...again. Yacey's last statement was a right pad save at .45 seconds. His team should approach him bareheaded and kneeling. If it wasn't for Bartline, the Beer Guys would have lost by 16. Yacey and Tuck are as good as they look. Tuck didn't make high risk passes to the center (with the exception of one defenseman of Japanese descent who will remain nameless), cleared the puck out of their zone along the boards and actually set up in an organized fashion in the offensive end. Coughlin and his group of ex-Soviet Army criminals didn't help the Brewers either. BUT, the Brewers and the rest of the league are not as bad as they looked tonight. With a little practice and a bench coach, the Brewers can set up their defense much better to control their own end and create offensive possibilities in the neutral zone on breakouts. The other teams can catch up to Tuck by an act of intelligence. Could be the year of the goalie at the UVHL. Condon, Bartline, JT...Lallier played two very good games.... Don't waste 'em.

 

Team:	Time:	Type:	Player:	Details:
1st PERIOD
TCK	11:32	Goal	Nowak, Derek(2)	Assist(s): Coughlin, Halsey(2)
TCK	08:48	Penalty	Helming, Andrew(1)	2 minutes for Hooking
TCK	06:41	Goal	Helming, Andrew(1)	Assist(s): McGovern, Ryan(1)
TCK	02:01	Goal	Nowak, Derek(3)	Assist(s): Coughlin, Halsey(3) McGovern, Ryan(2)
2nd PERIOD
TCK	14:10	Goal	Hay, James(4)	Assist(s): Coughlin, Halsey(4)
BRE	12:48	Goal	Sorrentino, Alfonse(1)	Assist(s): Yehle, Jason(1) Fletcher, Bill(2)
TCK	08:49	Goal	Hay, James(5)	Assist(s): Coughlin, Halsey(5) McGovern, Ryan(3)
TCK	07:06	Goal	Coughlin, Halsey(2)	Assist(s): Hay, James(1) Nowak, Derek(4)
3rd PERIOD
TCK	13:42	Goal	Coughlin, Halsey(3)	Assist(s): Nowak, Derek(5) McGovern, Ryan(4)
TCK	07:35	Penalty	Helming, Andrew(2)	2 minutes for Hooking
BRE	02:33	Penalty	Yehle, Jason(1)	2 minutes for Hooking
TCK	02:22	Goal	Coughlin, Halsey(4)	Assist(s): Hay, James(2) Clifford, John(4)
BRE	01:13	Goal	Johnson, Chris(2)	Assist(s): Fletcher, Bill(3) Poirier, Garren(1)

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kpark Quechee, VT Registered: Dec 2003 Posts: 724	Turduckens? Oct 27th, 2009 03:17 PM I just love that word.
hkydoc WRJ, VT Registered: Jan 2004 Posts: 517	Nobody knows what it means! Oct 27th, 2009 05:04 PM Huh? McD
McG Hanover, NH Registered: Posts: 47	It means DELICIOUS Oct 27th, 2009 05:24 PM IN RESPONSE TO: BY: hkydoc Huh? McD http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turducken
Garrentee Killington, VT Registered: Posts: 20	Dr Doom is back... Oct 27th, 2009 05:27 PM Mr Joe Lyle is back in the hot seat tonight!! He might just throw a trash can or two on the ice...