The March 12th iteration of Gator Hockey saw the good ole boys in Green and Gold take on the Mighty Trojans in what can only be called, diplomatically speaking, a horse-skit timeslot.  11:15pm expectation, 11:40-ish pm start time.  When you’re the last ice time you feel the collective delays of every game before you.

Zero fun.

Even lesser fun when it’s the night before setting clocks ahead.  I’m not good at the mathing but when you get off the ice at half past midnight, then tack on showers and a barley drink, then getting home around 1:30-ish AM, an voila 2PM instantly turns into 3AM and you being a zombie when the sun rises

Pretty neat eh?

As for the game…

First period was very much like a shooting gallery.  Defense schmeefence.  Trojans threw 27 shots at the Gator net, and the Gators threw 19 at the trojans.  Goebs started the Gator charge with a primary from Hanna and secondary from PerBear, followed shortly thereafter by Hanna (Goebs and Vanthuyne) and Tremblay (Cunny and Hutch).  The Trojans Lee “Don’t call me Mark’ Letestu rallied them back into the game with a pair before the period ended and everyone took a breath.

Second saw the shots dialed back but not the bingos.  Once again, and it became the them of the night, the Gators struck for three straight.  Jordo started us off with a primary from Tremblay.  Goebs followed via Jordo and Cunny apples, and Hanna took his ‘heart of the order’ slot from Jordo and Vanthuyne.  Cunny ruined nachos with a ’roughing’ pim, and much like the first period, the trojans tallied a couple before the end of the period.  End of the period saw the game score 6-4 Gators on a shot count of 50-29 in favor of the Trojans. 

Third round out the game with another three Gator bingos in a row.  It was a thing.  Jordo got his second goal (4th point) on the night, with helpers from Vanthuyne and Hanna, Tremblay netted his second as well with help from Mitch “The Ruiner of Cho’s” Cunningham, and Hanna repeated the second period with aid from Vanthuyne in a nifty batting out of the air rebound off the crossbar.  Trojans knocked one in on a PP with literal seconds left in the game and the boys went to the dressing room with a 9-5 win.

Kais Hanna grabs GatorOfTheGame with a 3G 2A 5pt night

Lowrey stops 63 for the Dub

Other Gator News:

Culby slept through the Oilers game and was a drowsy scratch for the tilt

Jordos hockey pants are streamlined for speed and the Gator on-ice equivalent of skinny jeans

Trojan is a brand of contraceptive

Getting home late at night on the morning of setting your clocks ahead sucks a high hard one

If Goebs ran for office his slogan would be "Bought and Paid For" and that actually seems like an honest way to approach politics

Spenny spen-o-rama'd and went -2 somewhere in northern alberta whilst the game played out