GAME RECAP BULLDOGS Rockies Date/Time Rink 3 1 05/07/2006 JIH

May 8th, 2006- It isn’t every night that two teams show up with identical jerseys. That’s exactly what happened on Sunday night when the ‘Bulldogs’ hosted the ‘Rockies’. Having the home ice advantage should have ensured the ‘Dogs’ that they would be wearing their traditional blue, or so they thought. Thanks to a last minute rule change by Bill the ‘Glove Guy’, the visiting team was granted the right to wear the blue jerseys, leaving the ‘Bulldogs’ to wear a mixture of white, yellow, polka dot, piss stained, checkered or whichever sweater they were able to muster out of their smelly hockey bags. Nonetheless, they took care of business by beating the ‘Rockies’ 3-1.

“I was really thrown off” said Darren Diamond. “Every time I looked up at those guys wearing our uniforms, my first instinct was to pass to them. This was complete bullsh**!” All steer manure aside, Diamond (at least we think it was him) scored the first goal of the game at the tail end of the first period. He was assisted by someone, possibly Mike Montague. Not that anyone could tell, since the officials forced the ‘Dogs’ to don those ugly, bright, orange pennies, they all looked the same. We at the ‘Bulldogs; staff apologize to the team and their fans if the information in the story is not correct.

The ‘Rockies’ tied the game at one apiece midway through the second period. Despite the high number of shots they put on goal, the ‘Bulldogs’ couldn’t seem to get any between the pipes. The task of having to play a team with the same uniform they are normally accustomed to seeing on their teammates also didn’t help matters. The confusion resulted in many turnovers, mainly in the attacking zone, where several scoring opportunities were quickly snuffed by the ‘Rockies’ defense.

The game was deadlocked until there was about four and a half minutes left in the game. Somebody resembling Joey V. or Bill Nolan or maybe even Eric Carr scored the go-ahead goal unassisted. Either way, the men in orange celebrated as they finally broke through after a thirty minute drought. Moments later Mike Mancuso, or Mike Montague or Mike and Ike scored an insurance goal to seal the deal.

“We got hosed on the jersey thing” said Alex Martinez. “Rule 611 clearly stats that the visiting team is required to wear a pink vest. That [expletive] with the gloves [Bill], wanted to sell more beers, and since the other team bought more than us, he gave them the right to wear their preferred jersey, while hosing us. Anyway, we were gentlemen about it and there is no use going on about it. I do however want to say that the guy keeping score needs to do a better job of recording the stats. If he was unsure about who scored, he should have asked instead of making up the stats as he so desired.”

At 3-1-1, the ‘Bulldogs’ stay in third place with 7 points. They have won three straight games for the first time in almost three seasons. They have a couple of tough games coming up before they head to Las Vegas for the “LaBatts Blue Tournament” A victory in both games could possibly land them in first or second place.

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Next up: Sunday May 14, 2006 vs. ‘Team Real Living’ at 8:20PM