Ice Hawks Eat Dragon Meat! Yum Yum.

You know you have hit the big time when they have some one write the headlines for you. Thanks headline department! Now I am not so sure that the pun was intended but I will give credit to Roger for picking up on the fact that one of their players had the name "MEAT" stitched on his back and since he was an alleged Dragon (and aren't they all?), therefore the humor.

4 quick goals was a good start to this game,.......but ....., now I could be positive here and say a win is a win and all that rubbish, but I won't because we are getting closer to playoff hockey time and we should expect more from ourselves at this point of the season. It is the little things that win games and even though we won this one despite forgetting that fact, we are setting ourselves up for a fall. We have to play smart hockey, which means not pinching in when there is no one covering your back, not challenging someone at the blue line and getting beat like a rented mule for a break away, clearing out the crease without cross checking when the puck is milling around down in front and not hustling back because you think you are out of the play. You don't have to be the most skilled person out there to hustle, that is the easiest thing to do to help win. We can't rely on our goalie to stand on his head to cover for our miscues, (not that I find you unreliable, Bryan).

Okay...'nuff of that.... let's get back to the fun stuff. Scoring was well distributed this game with 5 different people getting goals. 16 M. Lachtanski , showing off his baseball skills, and what kid from the streets of Brooklyn doesn't have them, did a great job leading off the top of the first period by bunting in a chest high pass for a goal. Then 4 Stebbins took a feed from 22 Arsenault going left to right and slipped it by their goalie low glove side. Less than a minute later 22 Arsenault lifted a back handed shot over their helpless, sprawled out and groveling like a hog for truffles goalie. Then less than a minute after 1 Wu took advantage of a shell shocked goalie by making him pay for trying to impersonate Arturs Irbe. 1 Wu hustled down for a loose puck but the goalie got there first and then kindly fed him a nice pass with which he gladly accepted, scooted around the goalie and deposited it into the goal. If it were always that easy all the time!!!

Then there was The Empty Netter. A thing of beauty. 50 Ow sprinting down the ice in the wanning seconds of the game to catch up to Wu's pass (or was that an errant shot? Wu knows? Wu can say?) then finally corralling it and letting it fly network just in the nick of time to record her second goal of the season. This point gives her the household lead, so it looks like 9 Arakaki has to do the vacuuming this week. As a matter of fact, this also makes her tops in points for the whole Ragin' Asian Line..... Go Jenny, Go Jenny.... yOWsah!!!

Notable Notes: G Bart did another fine job tending goal by not letting all our defensive mistakes lead to goals. Now, I did not say defensemens' mistakes, I said "DEFENSIVE". Forwards play defense, er...uh...are supposed to play defense too, so it was a remark pertaining to the collective defensive effort in general. I know how sensitive we can all be so I try to keep that in the back of my head. Thank you, G Bart!! He has a 1.83 GAA the last 6 games. That is outstanding in this league.

There was a young lady on their team that 12 Ross didn't even ask to dance with and 44 Young didn't run over. Boys!!!! You are slipping!!! You have reputations to nurture!!!

9 Arakaki, when you drill a guy that good and that blatantly you might as well hover over your sprawled out victim and taunt him a little. Get a little trash talk in. Hell, with 3 minutes left to play you might as well rack up a 10 minute misconduct penalty as well. How else are you going to catch Bad Boy Roy for the team lead in PIM's. For the record, vengeance hits when we are up by 2 goals don't bother me at all. If he had it coming then he had it coming.

Is there a more casual, even tempered and low keyed player in the league than Joe "Boom Boom" Balboa? Some people are blessed with inner peace and the ability to effortlessly skate with grace while others are like .... well...like 22 Arsenault.........Gimme some of dat, Joe!!!

What is the actual wingspan of Mr. 70 Walters? It seems like he can skate down the middle of the ice and sweep pucks off peoples' sticks from face off circle to face off circle.

G Bart looked like a Ninja Warrior swinging a samurai sword on his kamikaze charge out of his net to thwart one of the numerous odd man rushes. By the way, I look it up in the Official Hockey Rule Book. You can separate a person's feet and ankles from their body just AS LONG AS you hit the puck first. I also saw nothing that would preclude using a scythe with a sawed off handle as a goalie stick so keep that in mind, Mr. Grim Reaper.

James came off the IR List to record 5 assists tonight. So he deserves an "Attaboy".