The Dawgs I squad stretched their EAHL unbeaten string to 18 and and improved to 5-0 for the current season with a 9-3 ass kicking over MAAK Holdings. Their last league loss came in the winter playoffs at the end of February.
Center Dan Pham, playing on a new line this week, responded by scoring four goals, bringing his season total to a team leading nine. Dennis Heaton continues his courageous comeback from a bout with Salesman Neck, scoring two more, while son Michael put in one.
The Heaton boys
Assistant captain Shaun Hollis, actually making it through the entire game this week without being ejected, scored his eighth while adding two assists, and real estate mogul Chris Acuna tallied his first of the winter campaign.
Goalie Al Sterner stopped 30 of 33 MAAK shots, but hurt his back in the second period after giving up a soft goal on a fluttering shot to his glove side. He turned his head too fast to look at the puck weakly floating into the net, and hasn't felt right ever since.
You'd think he'd be used to it
Pham, after scoring two goals last week against HTM Construction, really caught fire this game while being matched up on a line with Hollis and Matt McGarvey. The three young players combined for 10 points on the evening, and using the first letters in their last names, will now be known as the "Hump Line".
Get it? HMP? Hump?
And in what many consider to be a miracle, Pham actually picked up his first assist of the season. In the third period, after Pham attempted to shoot on goal from his own zone, the puck was intercepted by Hollis, who was stationed in his usual spot at the MAAK blue line. Hollis skated in alone, and backhanded the puck over goalie Cody Thron for the game's final goal.
Hollis
Right before the end of the game, a frustrated MAAK forward Jim Wood tried to bump stocky Dawgs goalie Sterner. What Wood didn't realize is that Sterner, with his pads on, weighs approximately 325 pounds. That collision didn't go well for Wood.
Stay down, bitch
The Dawgs now face maybe their toughest test of the season Tuesday night, when they play the Misfits. The Misfits are composed of many of the players from the Icebreakers, whom the Dawgs defeated for the summer league championship. Game time is 9:20.
In other Dawgs news:
Dawgs forward/defenseman Chris Acuna continues to look for creative ways to sell real estate in a tough market. This is his old promotional photo:
This is his new one:
Between periods of the game this week, the referee passes a giant kidney stone, and hands it to the scorekeeper
"Do you have a lttle cup?"
Part-time Dawgs forward Jack Kelly fell asleep on the bench before the game this week.
"zzzzzzz....money....zzzzzzz....cash....zzzzzzz....T-bills....."
Because of his wife Kathleen being out of town this week, a frisky defenseman Ben Ziff attempts to mount teammate Chris Acuna.
"Ziffer, get off me! Wait, do you want to buy a house?"
Dawgs II forward Nick Cortese this week found a sport in which he can compete with people his own age.
"I just like wearing the banana hammock"
New Dawgs forward Bernie Levesque shows everyone on the ice that he is proud of his French roots.
Dawgs captain Marty Richardson took a short trip to San Francisco this week to visit an old friend.
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