Piccolo Grande 1/ Bulldogs 0

Tuesday Dec. 14th, 2004 8:00 pm
Civic Centre

Well it took a few games but the Piccolo Grande Double Dippers finally registered their first "W" since graduating to the 5th division of the Traveller's Hockey league.

After a rude welcoming, courtesy of a 10 to 2 largley self-inflicted drubbing at the hands of the Division leading Bitheads our hear-eos from the Ice Cream Shoppe suffered a series of heart breaking 1 goal defeats until managing a tie with aforementioned Bitheads - a game they shoud've won. But on this night the Piccolo crew would not be denied.

A total team effort from the crease on out. Battling through 5 shorthanded situations, forwards backchecking bravely to the defensive zone backboards, defenceman blocking shots and keeping attacking Bulldogs in their cage, it was a thing of guts and beauty to behold. What 5hole didn't stop his posts took care of, his skating brethern streaking back taking the man and clearing away rebounds the resulting shutout was in the books.

And then... the play of the game. With mere seconds left on the clock and what looked like the makings of a double shutout zero-zero tie Darrell "The Dancer" Anderson took charge. Forechecking furiously he slid a dope pass to Dan "Rudimentry" Ruddy who in turn figured "Hey like lets give this here puck thang to the young gun Chris "ChawDaddy" Verdon and see what he kin dew. Well young Chawdaddy made no mistake on his final scoring chance, sliding across the front of the net he waited until the Bulldog netminder committed. With the Bullish keeper prone as a pancake he lifted the frozen disc from a near impossible angle into the back of the net bulging the twine for the winner with all of 7 seconds left on the clock. Needless to say the Piccolo bench erupted in cheers, 5hole did a victory dance in his crease and the members of the massive crowd both went wild.

Lockout ?? What lockout !!! ;o)

From the Blue Paint