ICE HAWKS REST ON LAURELS AND LET GAME SLIP AWAY.

Inability to clear pucks out of the crease or generate an effective offense led to a hard-to-swallow 5-3 defeat to a team we have beaten bumps on the last two times we have played them to the tune of a combined score of 13- 3. A 9-2 team sometimes loses to a 2-10-1 team, but it is usually the S.J. Sharks. A lack of players at game time and an injury to one of our strongest defensive players during the game led to confusion in the lines but that doesn't make a good enough excuse for the poor showing we made. Bottom line: We weren't good tonight. If silver linings make you feel good then the bright side to it is: Better to have a bad game during the season rather than lay an egg during the playoffs.

There was one marked change in the Red Stars line-up. Some guy with a bad version of a Jaromir Jagr hair cut that seemed to be playing at half his potential, lest we figure out that he was actually a ringer. Maybe next time he will put his hair up and don an actual Red Stars jersey and we won't notice that he is the only guy on the ice who can actually skate. Given that, he only scored one goal and that came on a mediocre wrist shot from somewhere east of Utah.

The scoring was as follows: Not enough!!. 22 Arsenault did manage a hat trick due to some unselfish passing on the part of 73 Stebbins and 70 Walter, but scoring the most goals in a loss like that is something like being a leper with the most fingers.

Notable Notes: 3 Kopp didn't believe 9 Arakaki's when he told all about the Kinetics lesson he had last week and now will have to write a 100 times on the chalkboard: p = (m)(v). (for those of you who don't subscribe to Popular Science, p = momentum, m = mass, v = velocity). Although it can be said that that was a good "non-check" and that the guy was playing the puck, it is kind of suspicious that their #17 chose a guy on our team that weighed a buck forty five soaking wet to play the puck on. Pick on someone your own size, pal!! 22 Arsenault picked up 6 bad boy minutes, not a career high for him though. 44 Young almost broke glass on one of his schlappers from the point. It looked a lot like one of my drives in golf, high and right!! Tonight we set record for fans in attendance: 7 Ice Hawk fans, 13 Red Star fans, Total fans 20!

We have a new definition to add to the list. When one tries to accelerate while skating by keeping one skate on the ice ice and pumping with the other like you were riding a skateboard, that is called Kopping, in honor of our team mate 3 Kopp and his distinct style of skating.

Congrats to James again for his 3 assists. There is no stopping this guy!!!

A two week layoff should help Phil's back heal and give us some time to regroup to put a better effort the remainder of the season. Gotta go renew my subscription to P.S.!!