Another short bench game, but this time we did have two full lines eventually.  But the real adventure started well before the first puck drop.  The San Jose Giants were playing next door and the parking was 10 time worse than with other Giants games.  I'm not sure why.  Also, once you parked illegally somewhere, if you made it to the front door you were sent away to walk all the way around to the back door (unless you rolled your spot check and noticed the secret door slightly propped open to the north rink).

As for the game itself we did rather well.  With only three D in the house Steve took a turn a playing defenseman and then C.Diggs took over.  John "I'm going to suspend myself for two additional games" Boswell started the scoring at the 8:02 mark.  We would hang onto that slim goal until the third period!

But before that, we had to fend off a few penalties.  The refs called quite a few penalties, but pretty much all of them were valid.  There was some 5 on 3 and 4 on 3 action.  At one time both teams had two men in the box.  In the end we were able to kill them all off.  John did get penalized for getting hit in the chin and bleeding, and Dave was penalized for getting checked, and they having his stick hit the other guy while he was falling.  At least the called the other guy in both those cases.

Dave opened the third period with a breakaway goal at 18:35.  He got another goal at 15:53 with an assist from John.  Some good goaltending from their goalie kept Dave from racking up even more points.  As the third period wore on they started to get really chippy and whiny.  They also racked up 7 penalties of their own, leading to one PP goal and the nullification of their own PP.  The did manage their single goal at 2:14 in the third on a pretty nice play.

At the very end of the game, with just 11 seconds left, their #13 tried to take Dave out.  To Dave's credit he did not retaliate, but just lay on the ice while the guy tried to punch him.  And to the refs' credit, they recognized this!  #13 got a major for cross checking (which comes with a GM) and the refs didn't penalize Dave at all.  They even conferred with each other and I heard one ref tell the other "I didn't see 26 to anything."  For all of the grief we give refs, I must now give them props for getting that call perfect.

They had 23 shots to our 19.  We had 8 penalties to their 11, but they really had 9 since the major counts as two and that put them over 10, so they get the team game misconduct.

Scoring:

Player	G	A	Pts
D.Diggs	2	0	2
John	1	1	2

The duck goes anyone who could find parking.  Thanks to Santi for subbing in net.