Game 1 -Travellers
Piccolo Grande 4 - Predators 1
Sept. 9th, 2003 - 7pm
Civic Centre
Well here we are another season, another league and another new opponent. The boys from the Ice Cream Shoppe, the Gelatoheads, the Double Dippers yes that's right the Piccolo Grande Hockey team have come full circle and are now once again playing in the Traveller's League this time in the 7th division.
They started off this 2003 - 2004 season in fine form fashioning a 4 to 1 victory over the LH Predators. Nice sweaters, if you "laka ma shany greeen soot !".
Piccolo opened the scoring at 17:53 of the first period of the first game of this brand new season. Steve "Duckman" Allard the Mallard (Team GM - General Mallard) one timed a brilliant Michel "Pappy" Papillon feed from the corner beating the Predator netminder cleanly. The Preds tied things shortly thereafter on a goalmouth scramble which saw the Double Dippers goalie Andy "5hole" Sommerfeld pinned by a Pred at the side of the net while the puck was inadvertently
( that's his story and he is sticking to it ) kicked in the net by new the Piccolo "D" man patrolling the blue line Dave "Copper" Coupland.
As 5hole kept the Pradiators at bay the rest of the way Piccolo tallied twice more in the first and once again in the second period to secure the 4 to 1 victory. Greg "Popstar" Popoff scored on a breakaway with a smooth move that left the Pred goalie's family jewels exposed and decidedly unprotected. A few minutes later the Preds picked up a penalty as they figured the only way to bring down Piccolo's top scorer of last year "Commandant" Big Joe German was to chop his feet out from under him and Piccolo went to work on the power play. They made the Pre-Deds pay big time on a Mark "The Mullet" Lowe blast from the blue line that was skilfully redirected by "Pappy". past the perplexed, padded Predator . Rounding out the scoring unassisted was Mike "Young Bones" Bureau the pride of St. Mat's. He moved in from his defensive position on the point to the high slot and snapped the rubber hard and high top glove side. Was it a nice shot you ask ? Is the Pope a catholic bear poopin' in a canoe standing straight in a corn field by the freakin' woods ?? I suppose you could ask the Pred's goalie but in all fairness to him I don't think he saw it.