Squirrels 2, Piranhas 0

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It wasn’t easy or pretty, but the Screaming Squirrels tightened up defensively and notched a goal to defeat the Piranhas on Sunday.

Rob Myers’ second period rebound shot put the Squirrels on the board, and Tony Richelsen added an empty-netter as sub goaltender Earnest blocked 17 frantic shots for the shut out.

The Piranhas took seven minor penalties during regulation, giving the Squirrels two 5-on-3 advantages. But the power play and much of the game was routinely foiled by 26 saves from sub goaltender Shane Smith, who normally plays for the Bullets. But the one goal and gritty defensive play was enough to secure the victory for the Squirrels.

The Gardens IH – Logsdon      Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 5:04 pm
Piranhas 0 Screaming Squirrels 2
Game Details
Scoring Shots on Goal
1 2 3 Total
Piranhas 0 0 0 0
Screaming Squirrels 0 1 1 2
Piranhas 17
Squirrels 28
Scoring Summary
Period 1
(no scoring)
Period 2
Screaming Squirrels – Robert Myers (Anthony Richelsen) , 8:32
Period 3
Screaming Squirrels – Anthony Richelsen (empty net) (Chi Pham) , 0:12
Penalties
Period 1
Screaming Squirrels – Robert Myers – (Interference Minor), 2 min , 9:46
Piranhas – Scott Zabinsky – (High Sticking Minor), 2 min , 11:24
Piranhas – Dave Beaaulchap – (Hooking Minor), 2 min , 12:55
Period 2
Piranhas – Scott Zabinsky – (Interference Minor), 2 min , 2:08
Screaming Squirrels – Chi Pham – (Hooking Minor), 2 min , 3:08
Piranhas – Gary Gilbert – (Slashing Minor), 2 min , 12:22
Piranhas – Al Samples – (Interference Minor), 2 min , 13:18
Period 3
Piranhas – David Montgomery – (Boarding Minor), 2 min , 5:08
Piranhas – Brian Neall – (Body Checking Minor), 2 min , 9:19
Screaming Squirrels – Robert Myers – (Tripping Minor), 2 min , 9:58
Piranhas – Robert Llano – (Roughing Minor), 2 min , 15:00
Rosters
Piranhas Screaming Squirrels
Goalies
Name Min Shots Saves
35 Sub Shane Smith 45 27 26
Name Min Shots Saves
0 Sub Goallie 45 17 17
Players
# Name G A PTS PIM GWG
1 Alex Baddock 0 0 0 0 0
2 Mike Korba 0 0 0 0 0
4 Mark Pettis 0 0 0 0 0
5 Al Samples 0 0 0 2 0
11 Gary Gilbert 0 0 0 2 0
14 Dave Beaaulchap 0 0 0 2 0
16 Robert Hands 0 0 0 0 0
19 David Montgomery 0 0 0 2 0
25 Scott Zabinsky 0 0 0 4 0
51 Harry Mcintyre 0 0 0 0 0
68 Dave Quigley 0 0 0 0 0
73 Chris Neall 0 0 0 0 0
81 Brian Neall 0 0 0 2 0
88 Robert Llano 0 0 0 2 0
# Name G A PTS PIM GWG
2 Donald Marks 0 0 0 0 0
4 Chi Pham 0 1 1 2 0
5 Robert Valdes 0 0 0 0 0
7 Doug Winters 0 0 0 0 0
8 John Burke 0 0 0 0 0
9 Charles Wolstein 0 0 0 0 0
10 Brent Machado 0 0 0 0 0
12 Anthony Richelsen 1 1 2 0 0
18 Robert Myers 1 0 1 4 1
19 Benjamin Sumner 0 0 0 0 0
61 Tero Moberg 0 0 0 0 0
Other facts
Referee
Default Referee, Frederick Singletary, Mike HackworthScorekeeper
Thomas Haworth

It’s Tough Playing Beer League Hockey

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After watching HBO’s 24/7 with the Penguins and the Capitals, I realized that the referees in the NHL take a lot more crap from players than the beer league refs would tolerate. NHL refs get cursed at constantly without dishing out any further penalties. A beer league player might only question a call and get a misconduct. So, if it’s really true that NHL refs are more tolerant of being cursed at than beer league refs, then that should be number 11 on the list of Ten Ways Beer League Hockey Is Harder Than the NHL.

Squirrels 6, Nordiques 1

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While the Squirrels’ offense has, at times, struggled in recent weeks, there was no shortage of goals in last night’s domination of the Nordiques. With 2 goals each from Brent Machado and Bob Valdes, the Squirrels put up a 6 spot and cruised to a 6-1 victory, bringing their record on the season to 6-4-1, good for 13 standings points and 3rd place in the Bronze 2 Division.

Valdes opened the scoring by using his speed to gain the zone then slipped a wrist shot along the ice and through the 5-hole after cutting to the middle of the zone. Chi Pham followed up a few minutes later with his 1st of the season on a nice rush through the neutral zone and after beating more than one defender.

The second period saw 2 more goals from the Squirrels, the first on the powerplay coming off the stick of Machado as a result of a nice sequence of passing plays that undoubtedly should have resulted in more than just the one assist awarded to Don Marks.  The second Squirrels goal of the period was scored a mere 2 minutes 10 seconds later by Valdes, his 2nd of the game. Dougie Winters was credited with the lone assist. The refs were apparently being very stingy in dolling out assists. On 6 goals, they only awarded 3 assists. What up wit dat? That is not at all indicative of the strong passing efforts of all Squirrels on this night.

The third period saw another 2 goals from the Squirrels (including a second powerplay goal) sandwiched around the lone Nordiques goal scored by Carl Fairbank. Tony Richelsen scored a water bottle-jumping top shelf wrist shot from a tough angle that would impress Alex Ovechkin. Brent Machado finished the scoring off with a weird rainbow shot that confused and seemed to paralyze Nordiques goalie, Terri Ball.

For the game, the Squirrels were a perfect 4 for 4 on the penalty kill and a perfect 2 for 2 on the power play. How many times has that happened in a Squirrels ice game? I’d venture rarely if ever. Goalie Eric Coulson was credited with 16 saves on 17 shots and made a few quality stops moving laterally.

Next up for the Squirrels is the 2nd meeting of the year against the Piranhas on January 16th. The Squirrels won the 1st battle in a closely contested 3-2 game back in October.

The Gardens IH – Resor      Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 10:09 pm
Squirrels 6 Nordiques 1
Game Details
Scoring Shots on Goal
1 2 3 Total
Screaming Squirrels 2 2 2 6
Nordiques 0 0 1 1
Squirrels 27
Nordiques 17
Scoring Summary
Period 1
Screaming Squirrels – Robert Valdes (Donald Marks) , 8:38
Screaming Squirrels – Chi Pham (unassisted) , 14:19
Period 2
Screaming Squirrels – Brent Machado (power play) (Donald Marks) , 12:16
Screaming Squirrels – Robert Valdes (Doug Winters) , 14:26
Period 3
Screaming Squirrels – Anthony Richelsen (power play) (unassisted) , 7:27
Nordiques – Carl Fairbank (unassisted) , 10:19
Screaming Squirrels – Brent Machado (unassisted) , 12:50
Penalties
Period 1
Screaming Squirrels – Chi Pham – (Tripping Minor), 2 min , 2:09
Screaming Squirrels – Mark Tessar – (Tripping Minor), 2 min , 4:06
Period 2
Screaming Squirrels – Michael Ricci – (Tripping Minor), 2 min , 2:42
Screaming Squirrels – Brent Machado – (Tripping Minor), 2 min , 10:02
Nordiques – Regan Sweeney – (Holding Minor), 2 min , 12:02
Period 3
Nordiques – Mike Dunlap – (Tripping Minor), 2 min , 6:37
Rosters
Screaming Squirrels Nordiques
Goalies
Name Min Shots Saves
30 Eric Coulson 45 17 16
Name Min Shots Saves
31 Terri Ball 45 27 21
Players
# Name G A PTS PIM GWG
2 Donald Marks 0 2 2 0 0
4 Chi Pham 1 0 1 2 1
5 Robert Valdes 2 0 2 0 0
7 Doug Winters 0 1 1 0 0
10 Brent Machado 2 0 2 2 0
12 Anthony Richelsen 1 0 1 0 0
16 Michael Ricci 0 0 0 2 0
19 Benjamin Sumner 0 0 0 0 0
22 Jeffrey Bobeck 0 0 0 0 0
96 Mark Tessar 0 0 0 2 0
# Name G A PTS PIM GWG
6 Carl Fairbank 1 0 1 0 0
7 Kevin Dahya 0 0 0 0 0
10 Matthew Bucior 0 0 0 0 0
17 Carolyn Lindley 0 0 0 0 0
19 Mike Dunlap 0 0 0 2 0
27 Walt Bender 0 0 0 0 0
28 Melissa Frederick 0 0 0 0 0
32 Tom Swindell 0 0 0 0 0
42 Trevor Frederick 0 0 0 0 0
89 Regan Sweeney 0 0 0 2 0
91 Walter R Bender 0 0 0 0 0

Looking Back on a Decade of Hockey

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It’s been more than ten years since the group of people now known as the Screaming Squirrels started skating together on a rag-tag roller hockey team at the Gardens Ice House in Laurel. In that time, the Squirrels have played roller hockey each summer, and started ice in late 2003. As you can imagine, players have several memories of their time with the Squirrels over the years.

“Feeding the puck to Rob for the championship-winning goal against Dog Star will always be my highlight,” says Matt Borlik, who started with the team in 2002 as a backup goaltender. His runner-up memory? “Runner-up is meeting Tom and Rob for the first time at a pickup rink and nearly getting in a fight with Tom (who apparently was a like an Army Ranger or something). Then somehow getting invited to the Squirrels as a backup goalie a week later (I forget how that happened), meeting the team, and finding out Tom was the captain.” Yes, that’s how Matt met us.

Mike Bronson, who played with the ice team for three seasons before darting off to Chicago, also has several favorite moments. “Dan Carter bringing a new girlfriend around to every season. That big win over Scurvy of course. The same season we played Scurvy we played the Cruisers. We hadn’t won all season (I think we tied Laughing Skulls). I got in a fight with some of those douchey twins on that team and we ended up pulling out the victory.”

Bronson, who also got into a fight and got suspended for three games in his first season with the Squirrels, was also fond of the game where he frustrated the Vikings, including one of their to players who was on the verge of tears.

Personally, my favorite Squirrels moment was winning our first non-shared roller championship in 2005, and winning our first underdog ice championship in 2006.

For those who need a reminder, the first roller championship in 2003 was technically shared. For some reason, the league thought it was a good idea to make the championship game best-of-three. The Squirrels easily won Game One, but the Hurricanes somehow won Game Two. Game Three was canceled because Hurricane Isabel tore through the region.

The Squirrels also won their first ice championship on 2004 in the beginner league, but they were undefeated that year and it was pretty much a cake walk, as was the 2010 ice championship.

The Squirrels also had many off-ice memorable moments, particularly Phil Van der Vossen’s wedding and the years team parties that ended in D.C.

Here’s to another decade of the Screaming Squirrels.

Squirrels Shut Out Again

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Offense continued to be the Squirrels’ major problem Sunday as a full bench couldn’t squeak a shot past Scurvy in a 3-0 loss. Scurvy, however, did bring up a mid-season ringer, who wasn’t even on the roster and had to be pulled aside during the game to be verified, while contributing two goals in his only game of the season.

The Gardens IH – Patrick      Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 3:47 pm
Squirrels 0 Scurvy II 3
Game Details
Scoring Shots on Goal
1 2 3 Total
Screaming Squirrels 0 0 0 0
Scurvy II 1 0 2 3
Squirrels 17
Scurvy II 21
Scoring Summary
Period 1
Scurvy II – Ari Eagle (unassisted) , 3:55
Period 2
(no scoring)
Period 3
Scurvy II – Scott Striegel (unassisted) , 2:24
Scurvy II – Ari Eagle (unassisted) , 10:38
Penalties
Period 1
Screaming Squirrels – Robert Valdes – (Tripping Minor), 2 min , 9:35
Screaming Squirrels – Robert Myers – (Slashing Minor), 2 min , 13:03
Period 2
Scurvy II – David Ditch – (Unsportsmanlike Conduct Minor), 2 min , 6:04
Screaming Squirrels – Robert Myers – (Tripping Minor), 2 min , 8:38
Screaming Squirrels – Brent Machado – (Holding Minor), 2 min , 14:02
Period 3
Scurvy II – David Ditch – (Tripping Minor), 2 min , 7:12
Screaming Squirrels – Robert Myers – (Slashing Minor), 2 min , 10:38
Scurvy II – Jay Costenbader – (Roughing Minor), 2 min , 13:34
Screaming Squirrels – Michael Ricci – (Roughing Minor), 2 min , 13:34
Scurvy II – Jay Costenbader – (Unsportsmanlike Conduct Minor), 2 min , 13:34
Rosters
Screaming Squirrels Scurvy II
Goalies
Name Min Shots Saves
30 Eric Coulson 45 21 18
Name Min Shots Saves
0 Sub S Tougas 45 17 17
Players
# Name G A PTS PIM GWG
1 Mark Tessar 0 0 0 0 0
4 Chi Pham 0 0 0 0 0
5 Robert Valdes 0 0 0 2 0
7 Doug Winters 0 0 0 0 0
8 John Burke 0 0 0 0 0
9 Charles Wolstein 0 0 0 0 0
10 Brent Machado 0 0 0 2 0
12 Anthony Richelsen 0 0 0 0 0
16 Michael Ricci 0 0 0 2 0
18 Robert Myers 0 0 0 6 0
19 Benjamin Sumner 0 0 0 0 0
22 Jeffrey Bobeck 0 0 0 0 0
61 Tero Moberg 0 0 0 0 0
# Name G A PTS PIM GWG
8 Jay Costenbader 0 0 0 4 0
14 Dave Stephens 0 0 0 0 0
17 Thomas Robertson 0 0 0 0 0
22 Scott Striegel 1 0 1 0 0
26 Ari Eagle 2 0 2 0 1
30 Robert Borthwick 0 0 0 0 0
37 Gregory Lauer 0 0 0 0 0
55 Jeff Kagan 0 0 0 0 0
66 David Ditch 0 0 0 4 0
95 Spencer Berk 0 0 0 0 0
Other facts
Referee
Default Referee, Brian Antkowiak, Phil DakeScorekeeper
Amanda Kozay