Its Saturday morning and its 1030 am. Roc is still passed out in his bed with an occasional groan. He did wake up to tell me he was still drunk and figured he would vomit around 1:00 pm.
As for me, I was up late and up early. I feel good and hope that can carry over to our game at 3:30 against the guys from Montreal. I met a couple of them last night at the bar. They were Bruins fans who live in Montreal. I loved it. After watching them play we should be able to handle them quite easily. We will have to see. A win will put us in the gold medal round. We will surely be playing against the Syracuse Rangers who beat the Nordiques this morning 7-0.
We lost to the Rangers yesterday 5-3. Their goalie is awful, but they were definitely the better team. I don’t want to admit it but I really have no choice. They’re much faster than us but tire easily. If we can wear them down tomorrow morning we will have a game. Its important to note that we can beat them. They were better but not unbeatable. We are a good team when everybody does their part, spreads out and sticks to the game plan.
As a side note, Charlie must have made 45 saves yesterday. He played magnificently and as much as I don’t want to say he’ll have to be a huge factor for us tomorrow, he really is going to need to be. I don’t think I have ever seen him play better than the performance he turned in yesterday. The score sheet said 21 saves but I’m pretty sure the scorekeeper was blind in one eye. Speaking of blind, the referees we had were terrible. I have never seen a game called as lop-sided as they called it yesterday. Not to mention, those bastards looked pretty young. I’m going to go out on a limb and say they probably just started growing pubic hair this year. I hope they don’t ref us again and for their sake too because I will be shooting at them when I dump the puck in the zone. We shall see.
So Chris Mackin will be doing the shootout. Hope he does well. He looked much better today than he did yesterday. He looked like the floor of taxi cab yesterday. Im pretty sure Roc took that analogy today.
So with all that being said, I’m done here. Ill have a game recap after our game later.
GO HAMMERS!
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Friday, May 8, 2009
Hammers Dispose of Nordiques, 5-1
Lake Placid, NY – After a long night of drinking and shenanigans, the opening game for the tournament could have gone very well or terribly for the Hammers. After a slow start though, the boys in red started hunting down pucks, threaded passes and slowly picked apart the defense and goaltending of the Westmount Nordiques. When the final buzzer sounded, the Hammers were victorious by a score of 5-1.
It’s should be known that they didn’t play their best and were quite sloppy, but still managed to up their record to 1-0 in the Sarajevo division of 2009 Can/Am Classic.
Mike Gresko, Ric Novak (2) and Johnny Dagostino did all the goal scoring, while Jeremy Lemoine and Paul Carpenter chipped in with three assists apiece.
As always, Hammers netminder Charlie Kunkel was stellar between the piped with a 15 save effort.
The Auburn Hammers will look to go up 2-0 in the tournament when they take on the Syracuse Rangers tonight at 5:00 pm. A win will put them in a great position to play for the gold medal on Sunday morning at 8:00 am in the Herb Brooks 1980 Arena.
To view the box score of the game click here.
It’s should be known that they didn’t play their best and were quite sloppy, but still managed to up their record to 1-0 in the Sarajevo division of 2009 Can/Am Classic.
Mike Gresko, Ric Novak (2) and Johnny Dagostino did all the goal scoring, while Jeremy Lemoine and Paul Carpenter chipped in with three assists apiece.
As always, Hammers netminder Charlie Kunkel was stellar between the piped with a 15 save effort.
The Auburn Hammers will look to go up 2-0 in the tournament when they take on the Syracuse Rangers tonight at 5:00 pm. A win will put them in a great position to play for the gold medal on Sunday morning at 8:00 am in the Herb Brooks 1980 Arena.
To view the box score of the game click here.
Hammers Gear Up for Day One in Lake Placid
It is 8:55am and I am awake. Should I be? Probably not, but then again I have never been able to sleep late so who cares. We made it Lake Placid yesterday afternoon about 3:30 pm and after seeing my room I knew it was going to be a great weekend.
Rock is my roommate. Eric Plainte is his real name, but for the record, I have never ever heard anybody use his name. Actually, the first three years playing with these guys I never knew his real name.
Now, I get here and check-in and head to the room. I open the door and walk in. My jaw hit the floor.
“How the hell did I manage to land a suite,” I muttered to myself.
Yes, you read right. We got a suite. Now, this could be great or very bad. No matter what, I love it. We have a couch and a fireplace up in here. It’s awesome. So right now, I am on the couch, buck naked, typing this while Rock-o sleeps. I really am naked and I only told you so you can picture it perfectly in your head! SORRY! Hahah
So last night we went to Rumours – a nice bar/ club in the hotel. It was dead at first and I was skeptical, but as the night went on it got better. I should not fail to mention that George had already put me in a Jacuzzi and soaked me so I was on my second set of clothes for the day. Figures, the year I don’t bring much and that happens. It’s ok though, you know what the say about payback.
So back to Rumours. I’m a young guy and single so naturally when I see a girl by herself at the bar, I’ll say hi. Her friend stood her up and she’s throwing back Long Island Ice Tea’s like a champ. I’m impressed… and attracted. No, she was not fat. So, we get to talking and Paulie comes over and dumps popcorn on my head… and hers. Really?!?! I thought right there it was over, but shockingly enough, we kept talking.
We laughed it off so no big deal. But at this point I know any single guy on our team is going to try and mess up my game. Sure enough, I couldn’t have been more right. Where was Rock when I needed him? Mackin and Mike (Philly Cheese Steak) come over and start talking to her so I just said screw it. It doesn’t matter because I realized she was just looking for free drinks. So I let them by her the drinks. I am here to play hockey and win games anyway. If there are girls, that’s just bonus.
I let them do their thing… no clue what happened because I headed back to MY SUITE. Did they? No, so I don’t care, I was happy regardless.
Now, back to hockey. We have two games today. If you click here, you can follow us on Pointstreak.com.
Our first game is against the Westmount Nordiques. They are from Quebec so we won’t be able to understand any of their French. Dad, if your reading, thanks for teaching me the French you know… sense the sarcasm!
That first game begins at 11:20 am and then we play the Syracuse Rangers at 4:50 pm. Hopefully when I come back later for game recaps we will be 2-0. If we play the way we can, we are capable of coming up here and kicking the crap out of every team. That’s a fact.
Ok its 9:15 and I need a coffee and a bagel and need to hit the gym for a quick jog to loosen up. Keep checking in all day, Ill have updates!
Rock is my roommate. Eric Plainte is his real name, but for the record, I have never ever heard anybody use his name. Actually, the first three years playing with these guys I never knew his real name.
Now, I get here and check-in and head to the room. I open the door and walk in. My jaw hit the floor.
“How the hell did I manage to land a suite,” I muttered to myself.
Yes, you read right. We got a suite. Now, this could be great or very bad. No matter what, I love it. We have a couch and a fireplace up in here. It’s awesome. So right now, I am on the couch, buck naked, typing this while Rock-o sleeps. I really am naked and I only told you so you can picture it perfectly in your head! SORRY! Hahah
So last night we went to Rumours – a nice bar/ club in the hotel. It was dead at first and I was skeptical, but as the night went on it got better. I should not fail to mention that George had already put me in a Jacuzzi and soaked me so I was on my second set of clothes for the day. Figures, the year I don’t bring much and that happens. It’s ok though, you know what the say about payback.
So back to Rumours. I’m a young guy and single so naturally when I see a girl by herself at the bar, I’ll say hi. Her friend stood her up and she’s throwing back Long Island Ice Tea’s like a champ. I’m impressed… and attracted. No, she was not fat. So, we get to talking and Paulie comes over and dumps popcorn on my head… and hers. Really?!?! I thought right there it was over, but shockingly enough, we kept talking.
We laughed it off so no big deal. But at this point I know any single guy on our team is going to try and mess up my game. Sure enough, I couldn’t have been more right. Where was Rock when I needed him? Mackin and Mike (Philly Cheese Steak) come over and start talking to her so I just said screw it. It doesn’t matter because I realized she was just looking for free drinks. So I let them by her the drinks. I am here to play hockey and win games anyway. If there are girls, that’s just bonus.
I let them do their thing… no clue what happened because I headed back to MY SUITE. Did they? No, so I don’t care, I was happy regardless.
Now, back to hockey. We have two games today. If you click here, you can follow us on Pointstreak.com.
Our first game is against the Westmount Nordiques. They are from Quebec so we won’t be able to understand any of their French. Dad, if your reading, thanks for teaching me the French you know… sense the sarcasm!
That first game begins at 11:20 am and then we play the Syracuse Rangers at 4:50 pm. Hopefully when I come back later for game recaps we will be 2-0. If we play the way we can, we are capable of coming up here and kicking the crap out of every team. That’s a fact.
Ok its 9:15 and I need a coffee and a bagel and need to hit the gym for a quick jog to loosen up. Keep checking in all day, Ill have updates!
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