By R. Inkrat, Illustrated Hockey News
FALMOUTH, MAINE, OCTOBER 8, 2012 - Blue Dog ace Gerry
Nadeau scored the first goal of the game and the Morning Hockey Club Blue Dogs
never looked back, winning a hard fought contest 8-5 to take a commanding 3-0
lead in games in the celebrated Cardinal Richelieu Cup playoffs here
today.
The mood
in the Dog locker room was celebratory indeed on this Columbus Day
holiday. "No team in Morning Hockey
history has ever come back from a 3-0 deficit," observed Blue defender William
"Wild Bill" Arnold. Of course,
this was merely stating the obvious, as no MHC club has ever rallied from ANY
deficit to win the cherished chalice.
The Gold Honey Badgers (f/k/a Weasels), who are the defending Richelieu
champions, were resolved to turn the Titanic around, however, and pointed out
that they were again short some of their key scoring snipers who were unable to
make the match.
The game
was scoreless for nearly 10 minutes before Nadeau broke the ice to give the
Dogs a 1-0 lead they never relinquished.
They led by as much as 7-2 before the Badgers clawed their way back to
within three. But the hounds held and
the Badger comeback ran out of time as the final horn sounded.
Badger
forward Eric Lagios had the goal of the game taking an outlet pass the length
of the rink to tuck the puck past stellar Blue netminder Walt "The
Wall" Leland. Gold got solid
goaltending at the other end from Jim Secunde, who continues to play brilliantly
despite financial problems caused by the $1 billion fine he is still working
off for last year's sordid episode when he was pictured smirking at the famed
flagon sitting in the ashes of his fire pit.
Lagios
tears in to score highlight goal
Play resumes next Monday with the Honey Badgers, backs to
the wall, facing elimination, with only one chance left, seeing their series
slip away, etc., etc.
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