Solid hustlin' effort comes up just short Offseason: Walker turns attention to hairdresser convention Final Thunder - 5 Icemen - 6 Attendance: 18 enemies, and a couple lovely lady friends
Stenson Better Homes & Garden Quote of the Night: "Seriously, for a bunch of ugly guys, I'm always impressed with how good-lookin' our women are." These lovely women don't have a choice, Stenson, they don't have a choice. The world's pickin's are slim.
Well, it had to end somewhere, some time, but I was kinda hoping that was Toronto in June. Or at least St. Louis in late April. But alas, another Thunder season has passed, this time without playoffs for the first time in several seasons. That's not to blame Rob or anything, even if he is the new guy on the roster since last year. After all, he brought much-needed East Side spice to the team. Nor Decoy Jansky, whose chronic "Czech Sniffles" took him out of yet another crucial game, while an ill Copeland showed up. To say nothing of Puckhog Jansky, who put in goals for himself but didn't create enough extra late effort to nudge us to overtime. Or down-lowed G, who just couldn't stop using his wrist and thus taking himself out of the lineup.
Seriously, it was a hugely competitive three-way divisional race all season long, we just happened to come up short in the end. But each of the top three teams had inconsistent seasons, and each dropped games to "lower" teams they/we should've beaten. But if we can bring efforts like the last three games into every contest next season, we should be even better.
K-Feld faced fewer shots but the shots he faced were deadly chances by their feared top line, including a shorthanded breakaway in the 2nd that just might have put the game out of reach had The Fisher of Five-Hole Fish not stopped it. The guy went swooping wide ready to put on a highlight reel move, but K-Feld stayed with him the whole way like he was a tough 5-hole fish on the 11 Point River. Yeah, that's it, just like the fish, except that he caught it.
Meanwhile, Decoy slept.
"The Greater" Hoagland was buzzing as usual, though he managed not to check me into the boards. His forechecking created at least two or three goals, one of which he netted himself after forcing a turnover.
Meanwhile, Decoy poured himself some tea.
D-men Author 'Back-End Pressure' Wiggins and Rob rained shots in from the point all night, Stenson performed bull-rushes toward the net to create pressure, and Walker threaded passes into waiting wingers, but the Icemen goalie, even while coughing up rebounds, had all the luck (not to mention a favorable ruling on the shot he caught as he fell well behind the line).
Meanwhile, Decoy tucked himself into bed.
So our rally came up just short. The season is over. But the calendar year is young. There is Stenson's Cinco de Mayo party to look forward to, the epic Float Trip II, and Lee's pool party, where we will be the "natural" pool cleaners.
Apologies for this being a recap cut short -- I started it with the intention of adding more later, but now I've forgotten most of whatever I was going to say. The season deserves a full recap or season-taunts-in-review, but I may not get to it. Ah well.
As you may have noticed, the site has changed. Sampa, the free-site host, did a version 2 of some sort.
Despite an FAQ that made it sound like allowing one's site to go through v.2 surgery would be okay, there were several flexibilities that surprisingly disappeared with the click of a button. (e.g. I cannot believe sidebars like this one are even narrower than before.)
And I'm told -- miraculously! -- that the conversion cannot be undone. Truth be told, I'm actually quite pissed. But free is free. Sampa has otherwise been good to me.
So I need to sort through site "features" to see how I can make do. Except that I don't have the time at the moment, in the middle of graduate classes and Lighthousehockey.com. (btw, I've removed that Lighthouse RSS feed so that you're not clogged with random Islanders hockey gibberish).
But I promise to touch up the accessories when I get a chance, and return to irregularly scheduled blogging.
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