Ice Demons fall way short - again

The Ice Demons got hit by a serious numbers crunch again in a 9-5 loss to the Phantoms on Saturday night. With only 8 skaters in the lineup and only one of those a defenseman, the Demons were forced to move two forwards back to the unaccustomed position of defenseman and the inexperience clearly showed in the team's surrendering of 9 goals.

Although the Demons did manage to score 5 of their own, the game was never in doubt for the Phantoms as Chris Barry and his teammates took control of the game early with crisp passing and some beautiful scoring plays.

Goal scorers for the Demons in the loss included Greg Carder, notching 2, Jeff Blankenhorn, scoring his first of the year, and Fred Sanford scoring 2 as well. Sanford's final goal with under a minute to play raised the tension level in the building significantly as a slow whistle from the referee prompted Sanford to jab away at a loose puck under the goalie and net his 6th of the year. Several Phantoms, including the goalie, took offense to the play and a slight altercation broke out. Nothing but egos were hurt in the melee and the clock was allowed to expire, ending the game.

The MDL and the Ice Demons are off for the next two weeks due to the Thanksgiving break - a much needed time off for a team now desperate to find wins, and in search of players willing to play on a consistent basis.

Ice Demons fall short and give Bears first win of season

Well, we fell short 6-5. We had a very short bench, and the Bears took good advantage of that. I wish I had a dollar for every dump into the zone, making us defensemen even more tired than we already were. We really are hurting for offense with Roger Johnson backing out on us for this season.

The refs sucked, but that wasn't the reason for our loss. We were short staffed, and the Bears had bazillion players. I mean, when I went through the line at the end of the game, I couldn't believe the number of players...I thought I was shaking the hands of TWO teams. Wow. I'm sure they weren't too tired at the end of the game. Not sure how many shots we had on Garner, but it seemed like they were on the attack most of the game.

Zimmy, Carder, Friewald, somebody (Doc?) and I scored. It was close at the end, and we almost tied it up, but we just ran out of steam.

I gotta give the Bears credit though--they picked up a nice draft pick this year. Don't know his name but he's a very good player....should be a 5, and they deserve it after the years they've had these past few. And when you're rolling 4 lines, your 2 and 3 rated players skate right around 4-rated players who are exhausted. Kudos to the Bears for their first win.

Bip injured his knee in the 2nd, and we're hoping he heals quickly.

Scratches tonight were Weaber (injury--out 6 weeks), O'Neill, Sanford, Dancona, and Strouphauer.

If I misspelled anything, you'll have to forgive me....I'm onto my next beer, so I plead drunkenness. ;-)

Tough loss to last season's Champs, 6-4

Well, I wasn't there, but I see we lost 6-4 to the Crunch. I heard we lost Nate Weaber (on what I hope was not a cheap shot) and some other players got injured somewhat.

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I'm looking forward to this weekend's game versus the Bears. Even though they've been getting blown out, don't go into this game over confident! Just remember that any team can be beaten on any given day...especially in a league like the MDL where there isn't too much difference in parity!

--Babs