Hockey News! Special Edition Vol: 10

Tenth posting of the news articles from the Beer and Pretzel Hockey League written by the beat writer that covers the league.  He calls himself Dickie Dunn - his true identity is unknown.

Greetings hockey fans and welcome to the very special 10th volume of Hockey News BPHL: Special Edition.  Last night Silver pulled out all the stops against White, unleashing their secret weapon - smothering defense and referee intimidation.

The Baxter Arena crowd was absolutely jacked up to the tunes of Matchbox 20 during warm-ups.  Charbuff was taking some shots with his team but then opted not to play with them despite them only having six skaters.  As it turns out, he still found a way to help his team - more on that later.  Silver squandered many early scoring opportunities and found themselves behind 0 - 2.  The penalty parade continued for Silver as Mike "Jason Bateman" Klingbeil, Paul "Heavy Shot" Bednarz, and at least one more Ag member spent time in the sin bin.  No shorthanded goals were scored ending the incredible shorthanded goal scoring streak at two.

Silver team fought back valiantly by jumping on the back of Jeff Harris as he buried all four of Silver's goals in regulation (foreshadow alert).  This incredible feat vaulted Silver in front by a slim margin of 4 - 3.  That last penalty against Silver ended up biting them as Gangelhoff failed to clear the puck while sprawling on his back (because he had just been slew footed - no call), giving the puck to Ben "Double Rainbow" Maenner who calmly walked in and slipped one past Griff Watson, who had made many tremendous saves throughout the game, but couldn't come up with this one.  Surprisingly, Maenner didn't try to throw a 50 foot high saucer pass over the slot to someone waiting back door - although this reporter has suspicions he is familiar with that entrance.

The next turn of events was extremely odd and came completely out of nowhere.  Charbuff, in between spewing many salacious and extremely vulgar epithets at Silver's own Chris "Angel Mouth" Schneider, who is not prone to anything but polite and gentlemanly behavior, refused to drop the puck until Mr. Schneider had removed himself from the ice.  When asked for an explanation, Charbuff continued to verbally abuse the Silver team member, eventually taking a seat at the scoring table to pout.  Mark "Mama" Harral defused the situation as normal and Chris reluctantly left the ice with just a few minutes remaining in a tie game.

Regulation did end up with the score knotted at 4, leading to the shootout - which has favored Silver (3-0) and White (1-0) this season.  Jeff Harris added his 5th goal of the night going first in the shootout with white tying it up immediately.  Several other shooters came and went with nothing getting by either net-minder.  Finally the call for the current goat of the game to redeem himself for giving up the lead.  Dustin "Big Show" Gangelhoff glided in and put a sick move on the tender, going back to the forehand before firing it between the blocker arm to find the back of the net.  Had Silver celebrated like it was the last shot (it wasn't), the win would likely have been awarded because no one on White or the officiating crew could remember who shot first.  Eventually they figured it out and Griff, with the weight of the world on his shoulders, easily turned aside the last White shooter.  Silver team mobbed him with looks of pure jubilation on their faces.  The win moved Silver to 3-2-0 in the month of March and 5-4-0 over their last nine games.  Silver now has defeated 4 of the 5 opponents (5 of 6 if you count beating themselves).  Black is now squarely in their sights.

Stars of the Game

1) Jeff Harris

2) Griff Watson

3) Dustin Gangelhoff

Silver is back in action this for the sixth "Battle of the Precious Metals" this Thursday, 21 March at Ralston arena.  The puck drops at 8:30 CT.  This is a first of a home and home series with Gold, which will play Silver one week later on their home rink where they are undefeated (Baxter).

Remember, Dickie Dunn wrote this, so it's gotta be true

Gambling Corner

Since 2/14/19:

Silver ATS 7-2-0

Silver Money Line (as favorite) 2-0-0

Silver Money Line (as underdog) 3-4-0

Silver Games O/U 4-5-0

Silver/White Recap

Silver +180

White -210

Over 10.5 (-130)

Under 10.5 (-110) (shootout adds one goal to total)

Silver +3.5 (-110)

White -3.5 (-110)

Silver/Gold Odds

Silver +150

Gold -160

Over 20.0 (-110)

Under 20.0 (-110)

Silver +3.0 (-135)

Gold -3.0 (-110)