Shockers Deliver the 'W'

Final Score
Shockers 5
Special Delivery 3

If you looked at the Shockers on paper at the beginning of the season, last night was an example of how you would expect the team to play. Defensive unit was near perfect, offense finally woke up and scored some goals and goaltending was solid as solid could be.

Special Delivery (1-2-0) was fairly short-benched for the match, they took it easy in the first half of the game with smart positioning and attempts to control the tempo. They found production by dumping the ball back to the point and jamming home the rebounds and kept the Shockers at bay by keeping their defense deep in their zone to protect the net.

However, the Shockers found their step late in the second period when Special Delivery went up 2-1. The Shockers found the secret to breaking the Special Delivery wall and replied with three goals before SD were able to beat Giancarlo Capaz to make the game 4-3. The time was burning away as SD were struggling to make any progress on the Shockers defensive shield, despite the Shockers being on a penalty kill late in the third. With the monstrous SD goaltender leaving the net for the extra attacker, Carlo Varano, with a diving sprawl, eliminated all hope for SD as he stole the ball away from the defense and was home-free with the empty netter goal. Varano completed the hat-trick with the buzzer beater and was ultimately the nail in the coffin.

Despite Varano's stellar performance, he was modest about it: "Don't worry about the hat-trick, what is important is that we got the 'W'"

Also inked on the scoresheet was call-up Guillaume Côté who posted a debatable goal as a high slapper from Alain Godard was tipped in by Côté's hand. Special Delivery argued the call with no avail, the goal was signalled "good" by the referees. Côté filled in for the suspended Ben Ducharme. Côté commented on the matter: "Well, le gros, you know it feels great to come in and play, le gros, but is even better to score a goal and help out the team on the scoreboard, you know what I mean le gros?"

The other scorer for the Shockers was the speedy Mike Minklewicz who howitzered a shot five-hole on the Monster, he had this to say to the press: "The goal was pretty sweet, huh? By the way, I'd like to thank my sponsor, Milk, does the body good!"

The Shockers' over-all buzz of the room after the game was very energetic and the team was happy to get the monkey-off-the-back.

Some of the players commented below:

Joey Rae: "It was like Christmas bitch! Coronas for everyone!"

Giancarlo Capaz: "Fuck man, it was like the weight of the world was off our shoulders. FUCK!"

Jeff Jasmin: "Soooooooooo horny!"

Mike Rossi: "You know what? I thought of something....we won!"

Francois Hamelin: "Our guys should be proud tonight. We played an excellent game. Everyone hustled. It was definately our best game to date. Now leave me alone, I have a date with some victory beers!"

Shockers' next game is next Thursday @ 7:30pm against the Saints. The Saints are currently 2-0-0 this season and their next game is this Saturday against the Stealth Assassins (2-0-0). The Saints squeezed a win against ITT by ways of a shootouts in the opening week and then dusted the Iron Wolves 3-1 the following week when they lit the lamp three times in the third period.

Out for the Shockers next game is still Ben Ducharme to serve his last game of his suspension, the status of Frankie Ortuso in the beer pong championship is unknown and so is his virginty (or the virginity of anyone else in his path), so he might be a late addition to the line-up, Mike Rossi will be a healthy scratch as he is attending a sermon for some underground branch-off of a Buddhist-extremist cult and finally Mike Minklewicz will be doing a book signing to promote his new self-help book series "Weaving Baskets Saved Me From Posting Embarassing Videos of Myself on Youtube." This is the follow-up to his successful relationship-help book series: "Don't Drunk and Dial, Chicks Don't Dig it."