http://ganggreen.blogdrive.com/ Gang Green Hockey Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:25:01 PST http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2008. Sports http://ganggreen.blogdrive.com/archive/138.html Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:23:14 GMT While I'm not blogging much any more, the Gang Green blog has moved to http://ganggreen.ning.com. http://ganggreen.blogdrive.com/comments?id=138 http://ganggreen.blogdrive.com/archive/137.html Mon, 17 Sep 2007 02:34:48 GMT The preseason of ass-kicking continues. The E level champions, The Cold Ones, stayed in E and the team they beat, Albondigas, moved up to DDDD. Figure that out and win a prize. The theme of this game was for us to have a decent attack in their zone and then follow that up with a break away for them that resulted in a score. Lather, rinse, repeat. That happened twice in the first period. One of the goals was a SH goal. The second period opened up with our lone score, a nice feed from Damon to Inga. They followed out goal with two more of their own. In the third period they just... (more) http://ganggreen.blogdrive.com/comments?id=137 http://ganggreen.blogdrive.com/archive/136.html Mon, 10 Sep 2007 06:30:00 GMT This game isn't really worth recapping since it was preseason, so this will be short. The Cougars came stacked with a bunch of new players. I counted only three original Cougars uniforms among the green and red uniforms from the other teams that joined. Some of their new players were from a roller team. We scored first at 15:21 on Randy's goal with an assist from Jay. They didn't score in the first period. Unfortunately, the same can't be said for the second period. They scored twice, first at 17:21 and 9:35. Or did they score three times? Much time was wasted as the Cougars... (more) http://ganggreen.blogdrive.com/comments?id=136 http://ganggreen.blogdrive.com/archive/135.html Wed, 22 Aug 2007 01:28:15 GMT Welcome to another season of Gang Green ice hockey! Here are the details for this season: Logitech Ice is now called Sharks Ice of San Jose. Don't confuse itwithSharks Ice of Fremont. Same owners, different rinks and leagues. Welcome new players!Welcome Mike Kim! Mike will be playing D for us. He used to play in high school,thengot old, like most of us.Welcome back Hoche! Back from beyond Thunderdome.Also welcome back Midi! We're getting the band back together! USA Hockey registration from last season are not good this season. Everyone needs to go to the website... (more) http://ganggreen.blogdrive.com/comments?id=135 http://ganggreen.blogdrive.com/archive/134.html Sun, 19 Aug 2007 03:15:00 GMT This was our best game of the year, even though we ultimately lost in the shootout. Sadly, we were bitten by the injury bug. Tony was already out with his wrist and last week we lost both Inga and Ken. So, we started with just 8 skaters. We rotated just 3 D the entire game and 5 wings until John showed up. Once John did show up he quickly made his presence known when he broke down the right side for the unassisted goal. John score at 15:12 and our lead held until the 6:35 mark on a goal I can't remember. We then lost the lead with just 1:02 on the clock when a shot hit... (more) http://ganggreen.blogdrive.com/comments?id=134 http://ganggreen.blogdrive.com/archive/133.html Mon, 13 Aug 2007 03:00:00 GMT That was a nice, strong win to start the playoffs. We jumped to an early lead and then played tough to hold on to that lead. We also did a good job of staying out of the box (most of us anyway) and not retaliating. Dave started the scoring early at 18:12. Taking a feed from his brother he drove down the left boards and drove in for the score. Brother Chris got into the action and made the Demons pay for a penalty at 11:56. Linemate John, not to be left out of the scoring, made a perfect pass from behind the net to a slashing Dave for our third goal of the period (4:09). In the... (more) http://ganggreen.blogdrive.com/comments?id=133 http://ganggreen.blogdrive.com/archive/132.html Sun, 05 Aug 2007 21:45:00 GMT What a difference a goalie makes! In our second consecutive game versus Team Beer we had a short bench, but just enough to rally a come-from-behind win to get us into the playoffs. We had 9 skaters so we rotated three D trying to focus on offence. Having just played us last week, Team Beer was quick to key on Dave (even going so far as to ask if he was playing while we were still getting dressed before the game). The result was a scoreless first period with both teams getting a few quality shots. The first goal of the game was ours and it came as the result of a power play in the... (more) http://ganggreen.blogdrive.com/comments?id=132 http://ganggreen.blogdrive.com/archive/131.html Mon, 30 Jul 2007 06:06:41 GMT We had full lines, but no goalie, and Team Beer had a goalie, but only 7 skaters. So considering that, we played an excellent game. We might have even been able to win if we hadn't made a few mistakes. We scored two quick goals, at 17:52 and 16:53. The first from Dave and the second from Steve. Perhaps we lost our adrenaline rush because we then allowed two goals (EN, of course) at 15:40 and 12:41. One of them was a slapshot from outside the blueline, so no points for sportsmanship there. We regained the lead at 16:04 in the second on a tic-tac-goal shot from Damon. But Team... (more) http://ganggreen.blogdrive.com/comments?id=131 http://ganggreen.blogdrive.com/archive/130.html Mon, 23 Jul 2007 03:15:07 GMT This was almost a great comeback game. After falling behind 2 - 0 we roared back to tie the game. But a disputed goal cost us in the end. Still, we played a strong game against the first place team, so a great effort from all. Albondigas scored twice in the first, at 11:52 and 4:01. We tied the game in the second, however. Dave scored the first goal with an assist from John. That line (along with C.Diggs) had some great chances all night long. Just minutes after Dave's goal Inga scored with assists from Phess and Larry. It was a "4th time's the charm" type of goal. In the third... (more) http://ganggreen.blogdrive.com/comments?id=130 http://ganggreen.blogdrive.com/archive/129.html Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:45:52 GMT 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... (more) http://ganggreen.blogdrive.com/comments?id=129