After a nut-crushing three game funk, in which they lost to Blue Line, Flyers, and Healthy Scratch, the good guys might have finally righted the ship. Two weeks ago, they played pretty well in getting past a shorthanded Big Johnsons team by a 9-5 score. But last Monday night, they played their best game of the season, completely dominating the first place Purple Cobras, 6-1.
The Canadian tandem of Jon Jay and Jon Ripley, who have been playing together since Christ was a Boy Scout, combined for five of the six goals. Dawg Nation's youngest player Loren "L.T." Toth notched his fourth of the season to round out the scoring.
Dawgs goalkeeper Al Sterner harkened back to his younger days, like when he was 50, and came within 21 seconds of picking up his first shutout since, well...ever. The entire Dawgs defensive unit and backcheckers were terrific in holding the Purple Cobras star Shaun Hollis scoreless for the first time this season.
Dawg Nation came out on their front foot in the first period, and scored three before the end of the frame. Cobras goalie Timmy Kmetz, who also plays for Dawgs I on Tuesday nights, was victimized by shots that were either point blank or rebounds that his defensemen couldn't clean up.
The Dawgs added two more in the second to make it 5-0, and the way the boys were playing defense and backchecking, it was pretty much game over at that point. Every time Hollis touched the puck, he had several players up his ass, especially former linemate and synchronized swimming partner Matty McGarvey.
McGarvey, top
Dawg Nation put up one more goal in the third to make the margin six, and the only question at that point was whether the old veteran Sterner was going to hang on to his clean sheet. But Sterner's fate was sealed at the end of the second period, when Dawgs forward Rhett Brantley said the word "shutout", and everyone but Brantley knows that's the kiss of death.
Brantley
Sure as shit, with 21 seconds remaining, a Purple Cobras player took a shot from the slot that beat Sterner to his stick side, and the dream was over. But on the bright side, the goal wasn't scored by Sterner's former teammate Hollis. In fact, it was the first game this season that not only had Hollis been held scoreless, it was the first game in which he hadn't scored at least a hat trick. Hollis just might be playing in the wrong league.
Hollis
Dawg Nation now has a huge game coming up Wednesday night, when they face their brother team, Dawgs II. Dawgs II will be out for revenge after losing this season's first Dawg Fight, 4-3 on opening night. Game time is 10:00.
In other Dawg Nation news:
Timmy Kmetz threw himself on a grenade last Sunday afternoon, playing in a special exhibition in which the best of Dawg Nation faced off against the talented junior team Yellowstone Quake. Despite Kmetz playing his ass off, the Dawgs got hammered 10-3, and Timmy has had a little problem shaking off the loss.
"Please...make...it...stop..."
Recently while in Europe, Dawgs forward/defenseman Brad Stabio was arrested for ventilating his balls over a storm drain while holding a baby, and wearing a really stupid hat.
You have to know the laws in a foreign country, Stabs
Dawg Nation forward Jon Ripley shaved his beard and just wore a mustache for November Men's Health Awareness Month (or Movember). He now looks just like a movie star.
But not from the waist down...
Dawg Nation captain Drew Johns has moved on from Movember, and is now sporting a beard that will celebrate Douche December.
Jesus Tap Dancin' Christ...
(p.s.- Goddamn, I love Facebook)
This week Dawg Nation's Colorado Avalanche liaison Jake Godber announced that he would be leaving the organization. He has signed on to do the sequel to the movie Anchorman, in which Ron Burgundy gets the AIDS.
Welcome to the blog, Jake. Uh...this picture just might come up again, by the way.
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