Ice Demons can't hold lead, Phantoms end up with tie

Well, I was late getting onto the ice, and when I did midway through the 1st period, it was already 4-1 Ice Demons. My first shift, I take a minor penalty because the smaller Stoltzfus was going to have an easy goal in our slot on a rebound. Thankfully, they didn't score on the power play, because if they had, the Ice Demons might not have been so lucky as to tie!

Fred Sanford played like a demon possessed, picking up the hat-trick and really epitomizing hard skating on the ice tonight. Bip played stellar again in net, even stopping a remarkable Chris Barry partial-breakaway (after he burned me at the blue line on a sweet move) in the last few minutes of 3rd period play not to mention a super slapshot earlier that period, and an awesome deflection in the 2nd period (which I learned was really Zimmy's deflection). Many highlight saves once again for one of the league's best goalies. At the other end, Matt Light started out off his game, but in the final 0:51 seconds of play in the 3rd, he stopped both Greg Carder and the host of other demons (Sanford, Carder, Zimmy) around the net to earn his pay for the night, keeping the game a 6-6 tie.

They skated harder, and some on the bench said it looked like we were standing around...and many would probably agree with that one. We went back on our heels, and they kept coming, eventually beating our defenses. I had yet another poor game back on the blue line. I think this is the worst slump I've been in for quite some time. This quote comes to mind:

Reg! Do you see this quarter?

It used to be a nickel.

Now, the golden years are behind you.

One season, you'll be hanging up the blades and retiring the axe.

Fuck it.

Then you'll remember it was Joe McGrath who trained you for the front office.

Perhaps I'm already Joe McGrath? No, I never dressed up in chicks clothes though, nor came onto any of our guys....and I'm certainly only interested in women. lol!

These are the kinds of tie-game results that you don't like...when you blow a 4 goal lead in the 3rd period. I felt like it was a 6-6 loss. They were very happy...we weren't.

Fred was tonight's top star of the game, and Bip was probably the 2nd star for his highlight-film-worthy saves yet again. It should be noted that Bip STILL (unless I missed it) has NO PENALTIES AT ALL this season yet. He's showed great restraint this season (and the new ref corps doesn't have a bias against him like the last corps either).

Scratches were Blankenhorn, Dierwechter, O'Neil, Snyder, Dancona, and Pincus.