News - Chicago Bulldogs Hockey

February 27th 2008- It's been one hell of a ride for the Chicago Bulldogs the last couple of weeks and it all started back on Valentines day when after beating the Outlaws 6-4 in DAHL league action they jumped on the Bulldogs bus and headed to Eagle River Wisconsin.

We'll start off with the basic's, on February 14 the Bulldogs won a close game against the Outlaws at the Darien Sportsplex in Darien, IL. The Bulldogs dominated for the most part of the game, till the end when the Outlaws tried making a comeback.

That plan was quickly folded as Ryan Scanlon would score on a short handed break away to seal the win.

"It looked like we wanted to give the game away" commented Captain Joe Van Grimbergen, as several Bulldogs took stupid penalties near the end of the game prior to Scanlon's goal.

After the game six Bulldogs (Alex Martinez, Bill Nolan, Darren Diamond, Mike Mancuso, Joe Van Grimbergen and Ryan Scanlon) packed their gear and headed to Wisconsin to play in the USA Hockey Pond hockey tournament.

Driving six hours, the Bulldogs made it just in time to play their 1st game of the tournament (11am, they arrive a little past 10am). With planning strategy on the fly the Bulldogs would win their 1st game over a team from Wisconsin (Plant Managers) 16-3.

Game two was better, as they had a few hours to not only plan, but also use the toilet and drink some beer and try to recuperate some of their strength.

With a strategy now in place the Bulldogs easily beat another team from Illinois (Wings) 18-7 and found themselves 2-0 and excited to have a chance to move on.

Alex Martinez who plays goal, shinned in this game, falling only a dozen times and scoring some goals.

The third game was critical as they needed to win to guarantee them a spot in the Quarter Finals seeing that another team was also undefeated. With their backs to the wall and still hung over and tasting ol Jack from the night before, they beat a team from South Carolina (Shockers) 15-10 with little problem and were now moving on to the Quarter finals.

The Quarter finals outcome would determine if they would party hard that night, or go home early and prep for the Semi Finals. Well, it was not in the cards and I'm sure the Hockey Gods knew the Bulldogs to well as they wanted them to party.

The Bulldogs would make it close, but lose in the Quarter Finals to a team from Boston (BA Sports) 16-9. Its rumored that BA Sports, video taped several Bulldogs games and walk trough's and currently under investigation by USA Hockey. BA Sports also ended up taking the Championship back to Boston.

Exhausted from their long trip and not a bad showing in the tournament the Bulldogs went back at it this past Sat night playing The Fighting Squirrels in league play, but not before supervising the Chicago Bulldogs 2008 Puck Bunny Photo shoot before the game.

Thanks to Jeff Krich (Bulldogs team photographer) and Model Photographer Pat O'Brien, the Bulldogs officially started a local Puck Bunny contest in which one young lady will get a chance to win a trip to Las Vegas. More information on the contest and Puck Bunnies to come.

Back to league play, the outcome was devastating for the Squirrels as the Bulldogs won 15-2. The Game was not close and the Bulldogs made every effort in trying not to run up the score board, but at the same time, come on, I mean we had the luck of the Irish Photographer and also the fresh scent of the Models who just whore some of our jerseys. So you can imagine, the team was feeling good.

The Bulldogs remain undefeated in DAHL action at 4-0-1 and are in 1st place in the standings.

Next for the Chicago Bulldogs is on Saturday March 1st, 10:30pm @ the Darien Sportsplex vs. team Paladium.