The late late late late late Feb 15/16th version of Gator Hockey saw the green and gold take on the Cobras, and a couple guys that had similarly colored jerseys that said Eagles.  This is beer league hockey, as long as the jersey is similar in color and has a number on it, you’re good to go.

I could have just used one late but it was an 11:30pm start.  The game literally spanned 2 days.  I’m tired.   GET OFF MY BACK ALREADY!!!!

(writer leaves computer to get a coffee.  Time lapse 20min later and a caffeinated Kevin appears….)

A couple things happen at late night beer league games.  You truly find out who is built to be wide awake and alert at midnight, and who needs their beauty sleep in order to function as a productive member of society the next day.  You also find the locker room conversation takes weird side turns.  For example,

 

Our game was against the Cobras,

Culby said he used to play for the Cobras,

This lead to Michaels and McRae talking about being Turtles…

Someone mentioned the Mighty Ducks,

Hutch started rolling through characters from the first Ducks movie on his phone

We all talked about how intense the movie was when we were first seeing it but how ridiculous it is now

Michaels practiced his triple deke

Lowrey came to the conclusion roping a player would probably be an interference call

Hutch mentioned Wolf ‘the dentist’ Stansson, we disregarded the fact that this character was from the second ducks movie

Spencer came in and mentioned his recent trip to the dentist.

“Is your Dentists name Dr. Stansson?” was asked and Spenny shook his head in a fashion that would be received as a no.

Somehow we still manage to dress ourselves and get on the ice.  I question our general ability to function as citizens, but we can play some stick and puck

After an oddly short and untimed warmup that ended up with no actual warmup shots on Lowrey, the game began.  Cobras were slithering quite well in the first and got on the scoreboard first as well at the 4:27 mark.  The Gators gave up trying to replicate the flying-v formation (Mighty ducks movie reference) halfway through the period and Michaels scored a greasy tying goal at the 8:50 mark.  Hutch closed out the period with a late goal and the Gators were off to the races even though the shot count was 9-5 Cobras.  We weren’t literally off to the races though, we still had two periods of hockey.  Off track horse betting can be done at Tap25 but we weren’t that hard up to place any wagers.

Moving along, the second saw Brad and Adam ‘find the twine’ to extend the gator lead to 4-1.  Cobras tossed a couple of shots on net and found a hole before the end of the period to close it to 4-2.  Third period saw Spencer giving Lowrey mini heart attacks.  Filewich moved back to play D… Okay, better than Michaels.  I love the guy but yeesh.  Cobras pulled to within one goal at 4:24 mark.  Hutch said ‘nope’ and went all superman 30sec later to recapture the 2 goal lead.  Tired legs and a fast Cobra breakaway brought that back to 1 at 9:47 but that was as close as the Cobras would get. 

Well,........... not entirely.  There was Hutch doing his best Kris "Cowboy" Russell impersonation and turning over the puck with 8seconds to go.  Thank god that guy fired a high clapper that narrowly missed the net.

Gators win a nail biter 5-4

Hutchinson get #GatorOfTheGame with a 2g-2a game.

Lowrey grabs a 21 save win

We were good boys and got a nachos ticket

 

Other Gator News

“You all are horrible people” – Ross Grant

Kimbo slice died June 6, 2016

Don’t know the current occupation of the other guy who enjoys hunting

In the day, a cross-over show involving the hunter guy and Kimbo would have been very challenging to watch, or write for that matter

Spencer was -4

Ross was laughing to feel like part of the group

The cowboy from the mighty ducks’ name was Dwayne Robertson (also a D2 duck movie character).  Like Kris Russell , he’s a cowboy too!

Gordon Bombay would have never been permitted to coach minor hockey with a drunk driving record in today’s day and age

Culby was compared in age to piss this week.  Piss is a verb from the late 13th century, from old French pissier translated to “urinate”.  Culby is much older than that.  Now you know

Did I mention Kris Russell is a cowboy?