Everything is better with a dash of synonyms.  I put some on the coffee grinds before brewing some morning coffee, so why not add some to a Gator News.  Here we go…

The Nov 27th edition of Gator Hockey saw us face an old nemesis in the Optimize Physiotherapy Somethingerothers.  Feel like they are missing an object / animal / thing in their team name.  Scrolling back in history I think I’ve referred to them as workout donkeys.  For the sake of efficiency, and foreshadowing the title, lets just refer to them as Optimize… cause if you can be one thing, be efficient. 

I’m not, I like to ramble incoherently.

Earlier in the day our team schnapps had about 8 skaters confirmed.  That’s not good.  Game time saw another four get guilt-tripped into attending and the Gators hit the ice with an “increased” roster of 12 well-behaved fellas ready to shoot out the lights in front of third-string (purely on paper.. he’s actually our best) goaltender Overton.  We actually had 4 defensepersons as well.  We’ll count Spenny as a defenseman to “develop” his confidence. 

First period saw Optimize “lift” their team spirit by going up 1-0 near the end of the period.  Landis, the elder of the VanThuynes on our squad “revamped” the scoreboard to make it 1-1 before the end of the period.  Filewich “corrected” our chances at nachos to zero with a cross-checking penalty, and the shots sat at 20-16 for the Gators

Second period saw the Gator “enhance” our shot differential in a 23-14 total, lead by a couple guilty Filewich bingos, and a very rare penalty shot conversion by NewKevin.  Gotta “amend” that nickname right quick… got some ideas.  Amanda Small for Optimize continued to strap her team on her back as she got her, and Optimizes, second (and last) goal of the game.

Third period saw the Gators “better” the lead by two more lamps courtesy of the hat-trick completing third goal from Filewich, and Jordos fresh-from-his-stag third goal of the season.  This all came after a little skirmish at around the 8-min mark where Optimizes L’arrivee decided to lay a little lumber to KT, and after the dust settled the referees “raised” simple coinciding slashing penalties into an “upgraded” coinciding slashing/rough-to-head/game-ejections for both fellas.  Meh

Game ended 6-2

1 game losing streak snapped

GatorOfTheGame went to Overton

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Synonyms for the word optimize that were used in this news are : increased, develop, lift, revamped, corrected, enhance, ammend, better, raised, and upgraded

Spenny went -2

Brock didn’t break a twig, and his pinky finger looks less gross than last time

Amanda for optimize is good.  Hockey is for everyone.  Being a nutsack is limited only to L’arivvee