Mini Vans - regular season

last nite was quite the game...
we played great in the first period against a low ranked Belair team and controlled alot of the game for the first 10 minutes.
after that i dont know what the fuck happened, we fell apart in the second period, they were just outplaying us and they were more hungry for the win.
alot of our players were gettin chirped by our own bench last nite, me being among that group and i guess all the heckling from our teammates helped because we came out in the third period with a vengence.
ended up going ahead 4-2 in the third and we were breezing towards a win and the start of hopefully another win streak. and again we flopped pretty bad.
i got slashed hard with 5 min left and it was a stinger so i came off. then we got a bench penalty for delay of game so i served that.
Belair got a goal with about 3 minutes left in the game to put them down by only one and we knew they were gonna pull the goalie. Smiley came off with about 2:30 left and all he said was "get me on there for the last minute". he had that drive in his eyes and i knew he wanted that empty net goal to ice the game.
the last minute comes, and Belair has an empty net and i see Smiley eyeing that thing from the bench. shooting lightning bolts from his eyes at the net (not really though).
so he gets on and runs his ass off and actually gets the ball and races down the floor to try to put the game out of reach but he got off balance and barely missed the net with a shot. then im pretty sure he bailed pretty hard and scraped the shit outta his knee. thats dedication for the team right there.
Belair gets the ball and races back up the floor and gets into our end and scores with 23 seconds left to tie the game at 4-4...
WTF!!!!
needless to say i was pretty pissed, and the rest of the team was also.
so then as the time is winding down into overtime brawley senior gets a penalty for a slash or something, refs were brutal.
and thus overtime begins...
so we're on the penalty kill for the first 2 minutes of overtime. 4 on 3, thats no fun.
we managed to keep the ball out of our end until the penalty ended, then immediately after the penalty kill we got another penalty. did i mention the refs were brutal?? oh, ok. because they were.
another man advantege for Belair. luckily they were trash and hackett had had enough of the bullshit we had gone through. he intercepted a pass in the neutral zone and raced in on pretty much a breakaway after a nice dangle around the last defenceman. he rifled it past the goalie and we won.
Baskie had an awesome game once again, pretty much one of the only consistent players. hes keepin us in this league and now we're first place in the league no matter who has a game in hand or whatever.

anyways, thats all for now. im gonna check who we play next sunday and post something about it soon.

cheers