Gator Hockey, Episode 2:

“Switcheroo and the Cure for the #FogFlu”

Now pull up a seat newly minted Gators fans, and I’ll tell you a story,

It all begins in the Winter 2017/18 season.  We shared a div with our good buddies Stealth hockey.  In this season both squads shared a mutual nemesis: The Fog.  The Fog were a very good team and beat both us and Stealth that season.  Meeting the fog caused several players to come down with the #FogFlu and miss out on the inevitable loss.  Losing sucks, no judgement assigned there.  We luckily never played them last winter.  Out of sight, out of mind, right?

WRONG.  They just changed their team name… doing a switcheroo if you must… those guys…

Entering the story is a young Kevin Taylor, a key off season acquisition to replace Perry “Per Bear Stare” Tremblay.  Kevin is very good at the hockeys, and we almost got him for last season, but I digress. Kevin was a part of a package deal this year that included last games #GatorOfTheGame Derek Teske, and future #GatorOfTheGame (at this pace) Zac Ressler.  We like all those guys, and I assure you I’m going somewhere with this.

Game 2 on paper had us playing ‘Point Night’.  Previous game Kevin mentioned this game might be a bit awkward on account of he’d be playing his old team, a team that wasn’t aware of his defection.  How did that turn out? Well, let’s just say we found the cure for the #FogFlu.  The cure was within the Fog all along.  Take their best player and beat them silly.

First period saw an overflowing Gators bench chomp away at 22 shots and a scoresheet that read tallies from Culbertson, Cochrane and Taylor.  Great start.  Like those starts.

Second period continued the Gator death roll for another 2 goals via Ressler and Culby.  Is it too soon to think those bone fragments that were removed this summer were inhibiting his scoring touch?  We’ll run with that.  Point Night (aka the Fog) finally got on the board around halfway though the second on a bad giveaway in the Gator end.  Not going to say who did it, they feel enough shame.  Shots for the period were in favour of the Gators 24-15.  Score was 5-1.  Game in the bag, right?  RIGHT?

Third period started okay, then McRae got that look in his eye… that look that says “I’m going to play like Spenny now”.  Well, Eric McShaw channels an absent Spencer quite well, and within a 21 second timeframe Fog fired for 2 bingos off giveaways and the score was 5-3.  Fortunately, that was as close as the Fog came.  Scradley did some garbage collection for the 6th Gators goal, and Overton put it to bed with the 8th.

A happy congregation of Gators (a bunch of Gators are called a congregation… look at me looking things up) went back to the dressing room 2-0 on the season

Kevin Taylor has a 4point night and takes home #GatorOfTheGame.  Clayton Hayes stops 37 for the Win

Other Gator News:

Brock may need to review how to deliver a pass.  He damn near killed someone on the bench twice.  Overton looked like an Edmonton Eskimo receiving the first, and a collective ‘holy crap’ was heard on the second as it pinged off the visitors sign.

Point Night ARE the Fog.  Additionally Finkle was Einhorn and Einhorn was Finkle

WTF was Zaft doing playing for Point Night?  #PrayForRiley

McRae in one game executed the same amount of toe drags as the NHL did in it entirety last season

Unless you’re Scrads or Trace, you cant really get way with knees shoulder width apart while sitting down at the bench.  Wink wink

Next Gator game is Monday the 16th.  Stay Crispy my friends