The Panthers staked out an early 2 to 0 lead in the 1st period (a "rare" position for Piccolo Grande this year). First came a power play goal with Piccolo defenceman Mark "The Mullett" Lowe biding his time in the sin-bin. The second goal came to be through the kindness of a sequence of beneficial bounces that eventually sent the puck off the post and into the Piccolo Grande net behind their flabbergasted goaltender Andy "5hole" Sommerfeld. (Flabbergasted ? maybe flubber-gas-toid)

This did not deter the boys from the Ice Cream Shoppe one bit. With "5hole' shutting the door the rest of the way they kept up their attack until finally with 8:21 left in the game they were able to break the Panthers bid for a shutout. On a feed from Dave "Hedges' Benson, Michel "Pappy" Papillon snapped a wind assisted wicked whistler from the high slot past a screened goalie into the top glove side corner. The 2nd goal followed 4 minutes later courtesy of the little BIG man Steve "Cheesy" Hamburg. Pouncing on a rebound, he completely mesmerised the cage minder by not charging to the lip of the crease before shooting but rather fired a quick shot from the slot over the now prone puck stopper to tie the score. Again credited with the assist was our favourite Homo-Path Dave "Hedges' Benson.

Then came the play of the game with just 8 seconds left on the clock. The play, which rendered the outstanding 35 save performance by the Panther's masked man to a simple statistical sidebar. His lone but devastating miscue, his sponge left in the patient, his nudity in public, his fly undone at the Prom, his foreskin stuck in his zipper, his being caught in the bathroom by his Mom with his hands full and the July issue of "Jugs", his peni …(right that's enough). Now back to what from now on will simply be referred to as "THE PLAY" Piccolo had just cleared the puck into the Panther zone. The Panther net minder, judging it to be the prudent play charged out of his net halfway to the blue line to retrieve the vengeful vulcanised disc. He got to the puck first but was forced into mishandling this hot potato when faced with the frantic, ferocious, certifiable fore checking that is fast becoming the trade mark of the Little Big Man himself Steve "Cheesy" Hamburg. This caused him to backhand the puck onto the grateful stick of one Darrell and Darrell Anderson. Darrell being no stranger to the net skilfully sent this gift from the goalie into the vacated, empty, yawning, stark, barren, lonely, tumbleweed strewn (yea we get the picture) Panther net for the winning goal. There was no hole big enough this side of Vanier in which the Panther's padded one could hide to ease the pain of this monu-mental meltdown. BONEHEAD !! Yeeoouuuch !!!

In the final analysis the Piccolo Grande Gelatoheads found yet another way to win yet another game.

From the Blue Paint !