GETTING DOWN AT UPLANDS ~ Piccolo Grande Gelatoheads raise the bar

After a stirring pre-game speech by Steve "Duckman" Allard the Mallard, a general cleansing of the team's soul and a "Losing is not an option" ultimatum from Eric "Captain" Romanica the Piccolo Grande Gelatoheads went out and skated their collective asses off. It's true, there were butts all over the ice, it cracked me up !! It was like the other team was skating on ass-phalt (alright that's enough) .

The result, in spite of an off night from their incredibly handsome goaltender Andy "5hole" Som-R-Saved was a well deserved 5 to 4 victory. I'm afraid "5hole" looked more like "5holes" on this night.

Scoring for Piccolo was Joe "Big D" German unassisted, Terry "Tman" Pearce from Duckman and Michel "Pappy" Papillion and Steve "Duckman" Allard the Mallard (owner of the longest nickname in the league) whom when informed he had indeed scored a hat trick insisted he had actually scored 3 times. Duckman scored his first unassisted while getting help on the other 2 from Greg "Popstar" Popoff and Pappy. This offensive thrust combined with the superlative efforts of the defensive tandems, Joe "Big D" German, the ever improving rookie Luc "Saturn Boy" Romanica, Steve "Skeeter" Hambling and Phak "Grassmaster" Chin proved too much for "The Posse".

Yes sports fans it looks like the "THE PHAK IS BACK !" Piccolo goaltender, "5hole" gave this quote after the game . "While it's great having the Grassmaster's obvious talents back on the blue line it can be distracting as he looks so dang good in his garter belt and socks - but don't quote me on that now ". Oops, too late Mistah 5hole.

The masked man for The Posse and a few missed empty nets did keep the score close. Piccolo had to make it interesting of course by coughing up the puck deep in their own zone which led to the Posse's 4 th goal on a mad scramble in front of "5hole's" net with 9 seconds left in the game. On the ensuing face off the puck ended up deep in the Piccolo zone once again but a stalwart scratching, clawing, growling, snarling, salivating effort by Steve "Skeeter" Hambling (all 5'5" of him) kept the opposition at bay, away from the lip of the crease and sealed the victory (arr-arr).