So bear with me, we do a goalie rotation, and it was my "Knight" off
Get it... "Knight"
... we played the Knights, and I didnt play this night...
Anyways,
Here's our game in Thunderstuck altered lyrics because this is my party and I'll write how I want to,
deGame 3 of the season pitted us against the Magnums at the recently (Hockey Day in Canada) renovated Enoch Rec Center.
Oooooh, the Magnums… You cant tell but I’m doing that with sarcastic fingers.
Note these guys did not have a Tom Selleck emblem on their jerseys OR moustaches so fir...
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 s...
Sunday Night? More like… Funday Night!..
Yeah, that’s never been used before. Not even sorry, it was an 10:15pm game start, add playtime, beer, inevitable staying awake for a fair amount of time when you get home and voila, sleepy GM that is without care to give to content
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So, little housekeeping here, a little good news bad news kinda scenario
Bad News:
Perry "PerBear" Tremblay, Devon Detillieux , and Mitch McNamara are out
Good News:
Taylor Hutchinson and Brady Van Thuyne are back to full time, and Gord Aylward moves to part-timer on account of a ...
The April Fools version of Gator hockey saw the Green and Gold take on the Ice Ninjas. In the 2 previous meeting the season they got the better of us 4-2, and 3-0. Third time is the charm? Possibly....
The Gators threw a solid 13 shots on the Ninjas is the first, wi...
Yeah, about that title, sorry.
We faced a familiar foe once again as the Gators faced the Bulldogs in exciting Friday night action! ACTION! ACTIONNNNN!!!!! Leading up to the game, upon the advice of Nebs, Lowrey decided to set lines for this game. After careful perusal of available players, Lowrey cons...
So the Blackstars won 6-1
... Sigh
A short Gator bench, borrowing a couple of Buds Hockey players from an earlier game took to the ice Saturday afternoon against a long-time aggrivating opponent Blackstars.
This one didnt go the way we would have liked. How's that sayi...
The Saturday Mar 16th afternoon tilly saw the Green&Gold of the Gators take on an historical rival. The Federation
Federation ringer Szpak decided to take a game off from scoring his regular 1g/1a per game and took the pipes for some reason. Bodog automatically changed the sp...
So thats a new one...
Oscar night saw the Gators take on the Ice Ninjas in a 10pm tilt
Last time we played these guys they took a 4-2 win from us. We put 54 shots down on them that game. Left confused.
Sadly that appeared again, and worse
...
Friday night found the headlines closing out the south rink with an 11:30pm tilt against to Mighty B's.
Our first game against these guys ended up not being a game 'cause we could get enough guys out to skate. So technically this was our first game. For those who were won...
To say that losing streak could f-off already would be an understatement.
Lowrey's wife has university event things going on, and Clay was doing some track coaching so Overton strapped on the pillows for a rare game between the pipes for the struggling Gators.
He may have been a bit r...
Friday night was not Fri-yay night, at least not for the green and gold of the Gators
We did throw a lot of shots on night, 41 in total, so there's that.
Brady ruined the Blackstar goalies shutout bid with a couple minutes left to end the game 7-1
The blackstar...
12-2
That is all
If you need GaryGatorRCHL, he's going on a bender
Just when we got the better of the Federation, the schedule had us play against them again.
Ahhhhhhhh crap
Not the Gators night on this one. 8-2 drubbing. yuck
Upside is that we got the first goal of the game, so there's that! Eric "The Mathematician" McRae...
Second game of the new year 2019 saw the Gators face off against the long-time pain-in-the ass Federation.
Before tonights game we were a historical 1 for 6 against this team. A couple guys on that team just happen to work with old man Culbs, so to say he wouldnt min...
ENOCH — The good news during the Gators 2018-19 campaign is that it’s surprising to see them lose a game in regulation.
The bad news: Surprise!
The Gators left without a point for just the seventh time in 18 games, but given that it was to a team that was recently releg...
So the Gators got a good ole lump-o-shootout loss for Christmas this year Gator fans.
This came in the form of a 6-5 loss to the div leading Calmar Rebels.
Tough pill to swallow on account of a 4-2 lead after the first.
Sigh...
First period highlights:
...
Another Gator Hockey game in the books, another similar-ish result.
99 total shots. 9-7 result for the green & gold
The Dec 16th version of Gator hockey was a well attended and shots were a plenty.
Santa @garygatorrchl was giving out bingos to everyone tonight hockey fans, well maybe not Spen...
Monday night at the River Cree South Rink, which has been recently renamed (something about Miss Saigon, or Panda Hut... cant remember) hosted a 10:15 tilt between The Bulldogs and your favorite Edmonton beerleague squad, the Gators.
The Gators crawled into this matchup sporting a 5gm winless streak. Not pretty.&nbs...
Saturday's 'witching hour' tilt came against a familiar foe, the Federation. I find myself still resorting back to my youth when I would go out and check on cows while my little brother stayed in the house and watched Star Trek "The next Generation". In star trek the good guys were t...
supposed to be for the boys, as the phrase is coined. For several Gators (myself included) apprently it was earmarked for some other activity.
Poor Clay had an all-time Gator low of 8 skaters in front of him, and 14 Enoch Roadrunner skating at him.
This one stung
Scrads ...
So by around 3pm we have 2 skaters and a goalie confirmed. Pin pulled on that forfeit. Who needs $150 anyways right... So here's my vision of how the game WOULD have gone... insert Wayne's World 'doodle-oodle-oop' dream sequence intro.
Tonights late game saw the Gators take on the Mighty B's... interesting ...
So the Chiefs got back at us for last game, and sealed it with an empty netter handing the Green and Gold a 7-5 loss. Nuts. Not too bad of a result considering we had 2 actual defensman playing defense... and that's being generous counting Spenny as a defenseman (grabs pen, checks of...
As the season progresses its getting easier and easier to spot the ringers of teams. This monday primetime game saw the Gators (5-2-2) face off against the division leading Rebels (7-2).
Gators were a little shy on the numbers this monday as 11 guys were confirmed by game time. ...
So, another Gator game in the books, another lamptastic game.
I really think the collective group of RCHL refs may be claiming karpal tunnel syndrome from repeated center ice puck drops. Good lord.
Sunday's matinee game ended with the Gators reeling off 5 straight goals in a crazy third peri...
Okay, so usually its Spenny that gets all the grief on our team, warranted or not, but usually warranted. This one seemed to be on Michaels, or at least after the game, and a little bit before the game. And probably some on the bench too I'd imagine, but I pl...
So, its kind of our calling card now.
Lots of shots, lots of goals.
Gator games kinda go like this: puck goes in someones offensive zone, puck goes in net, back to center, repeat. 57% of the time its in favour of the Green&Gold.
the Monday ni...
Friday's game saw the Gators (3-2) take on the Enoch RoadRunners (3-1-1).
Not gonna go too heavy into the game on account of we lost in a shootout and I hate writing about losses so I'll go into the pregame conversation, without naming names...
It all kinda started...
Game 5 of the Gators 18/19 quest pitted the Gators against the "Mighty B's"
What is a Mighty B you ask? Well, I'll walk you through it:
a Mighty B is a washed up ECHL'er (god bless Hockey DB) who is long past his prime, especially in the art of chirping. We'...
Welcome to the latest installment of Gator Lacrosse News!!!
Ya know, cause lacrosse game usually end up with double digits on both ends of the scoreboard, not hockey.
For the second straight game the lights were shot out. This one went unfortunately to the Growlers, and not the Gators. ...
Welcome to primo Sunday night hockey!
The Gators third game of the season pitted them against one of the RCHL's storied teams, the Chiefs. I know that because Culby said they've been playing together forever, and Culby's old, so he'd know.
Upside of a 6pm game is th...
I'm not mad... just disappointed.
So we had a Sunday night / REALLY EARLY Monday morning tilt vs the Caramel Rebel... Carvel... oh, CALMAR. We played the Calmar Rebels. A fitting team name since the town itself was named after the Sweedish home of its first postmaster. And everybody knows how r...
Winter 2018/19 Started off against an old foe in the Lonestars.
If you recall these guys have good ole Principal Gulli. Brad remembers. It was kind of a shame Gulli missed this game. In fact, most of his team missed this game. 9PM rolled around and their bench st...
Gator camp is startin soon.
Continue drinkin,
Expectations are low... although looking back we were a 20-8-2 squad last year, so there's that
Growlers take the Gators 4-3
Dang it. There's always a beer coupon right.
First period saw the Growlers draw first blood, and the start of a back-n-forth goal sheet. PerPer countered with a tally at the min mark with a beut feed from Adam "Apples" "Abercrombie" Nelubowich. Growl...
The final regular season Gator came saw a late-ish game against the Blackhawks who happened to be without that guy... uh... Ya know what, I don't recal his name. It starts with an S. Swim, Swammy, Slippy, Slappy, Simmons, Swenson, Swanson... Oh yeah, its right here... Samsonite (minus the -ite).
...
Really?
Really?
So the day after April Fools was not as funny as it should have been. In our final game of the regular season against the Stealth we threw everything we could at the Stealth goalie. Including the proverbial kitchen sink, maybe a couple of invisible orange sl...
Long and short abbreviated to just short, again
We scored first,
They replied with 3
We lost by a count of 3-1 interestingly enough
Its better than last time,
Winless streak at 4
Damnit
we lost
bigtime
11-3
i hate the fog
Spenny was +3
The March 20th version of Gator Hockey was a refreshing 8:45pm start. The unrefreshing part (cause my thing is point - counterpoint if you hadn't noticed) was that it was the rubber match against those 'Why aren't you doing your stretches' / 'look at me being fitfam' / 'oooooh, I'm soooo into taking ca...
So I’m lazy and going to bunch two games worth of summaries in one episode
Sue me
This weekend saw the Gators play a witching hour Friday night game against the division leading Growlers and a Sunday matinee vs the sportsing team from Optimise Physiotherapy
How did we fair you a...
So the Friday, March 9th episode of Gator Hockey was a 'hodge-podge' of activity. Friday was Old Man Culby's 40th birthday.
He had priorities, parties to attend, ect. Healthy scratch.
Brock was in Mexico, or was it Moose Jaw... irregardless he was a scratch too.
...
I was gonna start this one off saying “good things come in fours” but I used that already in January
Or that we, spoiler alert, wrangled a win from the Stealth but we’ve done that a couple times already as well
Or that we scored some “goals in bunches”, but “on furth...
Win streak ended at 8.
Game summary in a nutshell: Fog skate in and fire slappers from around the faceoff dot. Puck goes in net. Lowrey ponders curling up in the fetal position. Fog win 9-3
Lets pretend that never happened and fill in this update with w...
The late late late late late Feb 15/16th version of Gator Hockey saw the green and gold take on the Cobras, and a couple guys that had similarly colored jerseys that said Eagles. This is beer league hockey, as long as the jersey is similar in color and has a number on i...
The Saturday, Feb 10th version of Gator Hockey starred, wait for it....
BOOOOOOZE!!!
Shocking right? I guess that's what happens when you don't have your regularly scheduled team knitting club meeting and Spencer can't make it to the game. Things get a little out of hand, fast. Ther...
The thursday, Feb 1st version of Gator Hockey was a back and forth battle between the streaking Gators and streaking Penguins. Gators on a winning tear, Penguins on a losing tear.
Lowrey fresh off a 2 week vacation in Maui took the pipes. He, unlike Montoya was available to the media ...
The Sunday January 28th version of Gator Hockey saw a brunch time… no wait, that’s morning. Late Brunch? Linner? Lupper? Screw it, it was a 2:30 afternoon tilt versus Stealth Hockey
No beer tickets were on the line this time. God (not to be confused with Morello, who is I...
In the latest instalment of Gator Hockey I'm gonna coin an old Stampede Wrestling phrase. Be warned, if you have no idea what a s...
First game of the new year, the league coordinator comes in before our game
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21-25+12=8
So the Dec 21st version of Gator Hockey fell on the 8th day of Christmas
On the 8th Day of Christmas, Stealth Hockey gave to us.... a 5-3 win
And a Tap25 coupon
2 points milked
Thursday was an odd odd duck. Overton and Fetting...
The Dec 16th version of Gator hockey was in question for pretty much the week leading up.
Worried?
Maybe a little, seven skaters isn't ideal
Did Overton and McRae work a little Spruce Grove magic?
Possibly. Either that or they took out a huge 'I owe you' w...
Turrible
So Hudson is alive. There’s a plus.
Ever had one of those nights where nothing seems to go right? We did.
The Monday Nov 27 version of Gator Hockey saw a real case of the Mundays (ala Office Space) vs the “Fatboys”.
Did we mention vs...
So if you remember the last time we played Stene Bros Mustangs you'll remember Hudson got a high stick that took a little chunk out of his chin. That's fine, Huddy's pretty rugged. It suits him.
This game saw the same Mustangs team continue with the stickwork. Co...
C'mon, you knew it was an eventuality.
You cant have an adult hockey league connected to a casino and not have guys bet something.
The saturday, November 18th version of Gator hockey saw a friendly wager of Tap25 drink vouchers on the line. Playoff atmoshpere maybe? Better than maybe?&...
It was affiliate night for the Gators this saturday.
This games opponent: rematch against the Ice Dogs. WTF is an Ice Dog? Can an Ice Dog lick its wounds and not have its tongue stick to itself? Do they still need to pant in order to sweat? Do ...
Firstly, just gotta say. Ba-Donk-A-Donk
If you missed it, I'm not even sorry. Worthy of just standing up and applauding in my opinion
Now that that is out of the way, we played a game friday night!!! Yay for us!
I was looking...
Not much overly interesting about a 10-2 win. And it gets pretty lonely back in the net. The mind tends to wander...
cue Waynes World 'doodle-oodle-oooo, doodle-oodle-oooo'
Investing money through stocks involves a bid-ask process, unless you're fine taking market price (amateurs). Bid meaning what you want...
In the latest instalment of the 2017/2018 winter season, the Gators faced off against the Dirty Dogs in a late late game.
How late you ask?
The game ended the next day, that's how late.
Both teams took to the ice with 10 skaters. That's late n...
Okay, so math and paying attention arent high on our list of skills
Saturdays afternoon tilt against the Growlers presumably had a relatively full roster. Lowrey, Shaw, Michaels, Nebs and Filewich were notable absences and Hutch & Hayes added in. Miscounted Huddy not coming... math. S...
So 1 goal games look like they’re gonna be a thing now. Who needs a full seat anyways when ‘you only need the edddddgggggeeeeee!
A rare Tuesday early evening game saw the 1-2 Gators take on the (up to that point) 4-0 Mustangs.
Gators inti...
Friday Nights tilt saw the Gators grab the south rink to face the Stealth
Landis started the scoring with a sneaky quick point shot. Then the bunching began.
The stealth sniped 3 and 3 minutes to grab a 3-1 lead. The first period ended 3-2 with a late tally by Ov...
Gators lose an early season heart breaker 5-4 due to Lowreys reinactment of Martin Jones vs the Oilers last playoffs. He was on the phone seeking counselling after the game. Pray for Lowrey
Moving along,
Orcas were the hightlight of the pregame conversation
Fun fact ...
The winter 2017/18 Version of Gator Hockey commenced in the form of a friday night north rink game vs Chain Gang.
Some new and new-ish faces are on this version. 3 of t...
