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2024-01-14
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The opening week of the Spring 2024 season was a mixed bag of close games plus a few blowouts but all the games were well played and clean with very few penalties despite the rookies getting adjusted to the league... should be another great regular season and the race for the playoffs has officially begun! Too early to call but my way too early prediction has Crematorium taking on The Kids Are All Right in the Bubba Cup final on April 28th...
Here are the recaps from Sunday's matchups:
Time to see a doctor as Oozing Discharge too much for Downer & Dirtier
The Spring 2024 season hit the floor on Sunday and with the games we saw things are already looking like it's going to be another tight season!
Rookie Richer triumphant in first O4 goalie game
The second game of Week 1 was an awesome one featuring close friends on both ends of the rink as Richer's Wizard of Aus took on rookie captain Patrick Gaudreau's Stick Magnets. This game featured the ball hockey goaltending debut of young Aly Richer, an accomplished ice hockey goalie who had never previously transitioned to ball hockey there was some nervousness from her parents as she took over the crease, but the fresh faced tender didn't show much (outward) nervousness onthe floor in this game!
Ladies lead the way for Brentman & Robin
Game 3 featured another rookie between the pipes as noted sniper Bradley McCarter has decided to trade in his scoring prowess for goalie gear this season, Brad is tending the twine for Girls & Boys Club this season as they faced off versus a veteran laden Brentman and Robin squad.
The game would open with a quick goal from GBC off the stick of spare Sean Frewen but before the period was done the B&R ladies would take over this game with Danielle Leroux and Robin Pitman lighting the lamp once apiece for a 2-1 lead,
The second period would continue to be dominated by the players without a Y chromosome, first Robin would extend the lead to 3-1 with her 2nd of the game, and finally Danielle would finish things off with a pair in the waning moments to cap her hat trick performance and make the final 5-1 for the superhero squad. Brent Ferguson was perfect on 26 shots against apart from the very early goal while McCarter had an exceptional showing of his own despite the 5 goals against as he was the much busier keeper facing 53 shots on goal.
Return of the O4 Goalie GOAT
The "hump game" of Week 1 featured a The Kids Are All Right taking on spare laden Mike Babcocks squad without their co-captains Richard Tattrie and Renee Emby who decided to skip out on the first week to get engaged... CONGRATULATIONS ya crazy kids! The Babcocks were in tough taking on a very strong TKAAR team and the return of the O4's all time leader in GAA and Save Percentage Stephane Portelance.
Kids' Captain Jason Muscant coming off a 3 goal regular season last session would almost match that number with a pair of snipes in the first period alone to stake his team to a 3-0 lead at the break. The second period would see more of the same but even less scoring as Pat Gaudreau and Portelance were almost perfect in the frame stopping 37 of 38 shots on goal, the one marker would come off another Muscant's stick as Corey would extend the lead to 4-0 which was more than enough for Portelance to make a triumphant O4 return. The stellar tender starts his 5th O4 season in style with a 4-0 shutout victory as TKAAR stake their claim as the early favourite this season.
Squires is "Rad" in O4 return
The 11:30 game like the previous one had another goaltender returning from some O4 time off as Jeff Squires came back tending the twine for the Rad Aortas facing down Snap, Crackle, Pop! who featured young Mason Frewen exiting the crease and making his player debut in the league.
The game would open with spare Kortnie Legari getting RA on the board but that goal was quickly answered by SCP spare Andrew Stephens off an assist from the younger Frewen for his first O4 point as a player and the game was tied 1-1. After that the goaltenders would take over as Squires and spare Russ Latham were stellar, very late in the first RA would grab a lead thanks to Alex Rogozynski finishing on a scrambly play to send this game to halftime with RA up 2-1.
Jumpin Jack's Flash to comeback Tie
The second last game was a partial matchup of last week's 2023 semifinal as Kaptain Kortnie Legari and her Sarcastic Monkeys 2.0 took on Brock and Faith Murray's Jumpin Jacks, the game featured the same captains and 9 of the players who'd faced off just last week in a game won by Hocus Pocus on their way to a Bubba championship, but that was last year so let's see how this season would open!
Things opened pretty well for SM2 this time around, gifted with an early PP opportunity they would strike quickly with Tania Drouin one timing home an absolute beauty cross court backdoor feed from Dan Blondeau . Very late in the period it would become the Michel Blondeau show as the renowned magician with the ball would weave through nearly the entire JJ team before depositing the ball in the back of the cage for a 2-0 lead.
Squires and Bolzon serve notice they'll be a force for red-hot Crematorium
The last game of a great opening week of action unfortunately turned out to be the least exciting matchup of the day, coming in most were expecting a tight affair between Shawn Weatherdon's Kennedy's Krew and Devin McManus' Crematorium but one of the goalies and a rookie Original had other plans.
KK would push back in the 2nd outshooting their opponent 19-11 in the period but just could not buy a break to beat the hot goalie on this day, Jackson would end up with the 2nd shutout recorded on the day, his first in the O4 as Crematorium complete the mercy with just 22 seconds remaining to win 7-0 starting the season in style!
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