The game that will live in infamy!

Gang Green and Cougars alumnus Paul "Fuz" Mortfield was back in town and he brought some crazy Canadian hockey karma with him.  What started off as a fast-paced scorefest turned into a penaltyfest, complete with fights and ejections.  The refs lost control of the game, and themselves, and eventually ended the game early.  Despite all that, a group of Greeners and Cougars still had beer in the bar together afterwards.  Such is hockey.

Dave started the scoring on a two on one breakout with John at 16:31.  But the Cougars tied it at 8:37 and then took the lead at 6:58.  Tony tied the game at 5:11 and then Chris M. gave us the lead at 1:45.  Also in the first period, just three penalties between both teams.  Score: 3 - 2.  Ref Status: Al Franken.

The second period saw a flood of seven minor Cougar penalties.   Before that happend, though, they scored to tie the game at 18:46.  C.Diggs scored on the power play from one of those penalties at 5:14 to give us the lead again.  However, in one of the few 5 on 5 monents the Cougars scored to tie the game, once again.  Score: 4 - 4.  Ref status: Nancy Grace.

The third period was uneventful until the 17:53 mark.  That's when the earth fell off its axis.  It started when Donnelly crosscheck Dave twice in the back.  They went to the ice and Dave ended up on his back.  When Donnelly jumped back onto Dave,  and then Dave kicked/pushed Donnelly back (which verb depends on which team you're on).  A small fight broke out and the end result was that Donnely only got a double minor but Dave was ejected with major for the kick.  A Cougars player would also be ejected for coming off the bench ("to help you, ref!").  That player would later cost us a power play as he came back to taunt the ref from the sidelines.  The ref gave him another game misconduct, but it was the expense of our powerplay as the clocked ticked off over two minutes while the ref figured it all out.  :-(

The game eventually continued but then the Cougars most immature player, John Vonhoy, took it upon himself to attack our John along the boards.  John didn't really fight back and ended up getting kicked himself.  This is when the refs lost control.  When John didn't immediately leave the ice the (220 lb. 6'2") ref grabbed (130lb 5'7") John and slammed him into the boards.  Twice.  He then gave John the kicking major that should have gone to Vonhoy (who did a fighting GM).  This was all at the 1:06 mark and the refs just called the game after that.  Final score: 4 - 4.  Ref status: Ann Coulter.

We outshot the Cougars 26 to 17, mostly due to all of their penalties.  Speaking of penalties, they had, technically, 21 to our 14, but with the majors and GMs it added up to 59 minutes for them and 42 minutes for us.  But there were also suspensions.  I don't know exactly how many games they got, but Vonhoy got at least one for the fighting and Mr. "I'm just helping" got at least two.  Dave and John, however, each got 6 games for their kicking majors.  I was able to talk Tyler down to 4 games and he agreed because they don't have a record.  Sadly, none of the other factors like innocence and psycho refs came into the equation.

The scoresheet was a two-pager due to all of the Cougars penalties (ours managed to fit on a single page).  Each team also got a team game misconduct for getting more than 10 penalties in a game.  This is a new rule this season, so let's hope we don't have to go the tie breaker this season - unless it's against the Cougars.  Also, after leading the team in penalty minutes for two season, there is no way that I'm going to three-peat this year.

Here is the online scoresheet.  Don't read it if you get epilepsy from seeing too much red.

Scoring:

Player	G	A	Pts
D.Diggs	1	1	2
John	0	2	2
Tony	1	0	1
Chris M.	1	0	1
C.Diggs	1	0	1
Kevin	0	1	1
Dale	0	1	1
Damon	0	1	1
Inga	0	1	1
Jay	0	1	1

The duck is still in the penalty box.