December 1 -- Preds vs. Vipers

Another week, another game. This week we played at home vs. the B-town Vipers. A match against the team we beat three times last year and so far once this year though the team this year doesn't have last year's star player Greg Bosscher, now a member of the Thrashers. Rob was away and with both Dennis and Tyler not feeling 100% we had a "shortened bench", to us at least, and the D seemed to appreciate the excess ice time. Adam, playing his first game in two weeks put us ahead with help from Mark Komdeur and Kyle, later he got another after some nice passing by Kyle and Mike and a couple whacks at the puck. Rookie Mike Krikke came up big with two goals and an assist, the first goal being an ultra hack "only in the C division goal" when he shot the puck from the point about 2 feet over the cross bar and someone hit it down into the net. After the ref realized it was a person in a white jersey who did the high stick the goal was allowed. His second goal was assisted by Darren when Mike screamed a shot in from the point and put in 5-hole on the Vipers goalie. Darren also scored a C division goal when the Viper player, pressured by Mark, thought he was doing the horseshoe drill and passed the puck right to the tape of Darren's stick and with ease Dee put it home. On that exact same shift Dee worked the puck around the boards to Jon, Jon passed it to Mark Faber, and Mark Faber shot the puck into the same corner as Dee did a minute earlier. Mark also scored a beauty picking the top corner after help from Darren and J-bust. Kyle put a cap on the game scoring the eight goal on a pass from Ben. Then the J-bus...t got a 10:00 minute major penalty and was kicked out at the end of the game for absolutely rocking Nick Roza. The Vipers also had a guy kicked out who then proceeded to tell the ref that he would kick the shit out of him in the parking lot...smooth.
We have the week off again this weekend but hopefully we'll schedule a practice or something rest up boys because we got a 6 game schedule after that, 4 of them infront of a home crowd.

Final Score: Preds 8 - Vipers 0