Ok, so it seems that people actually DO read this thing. I am very touched. This afternoon at our practice I was scolded by the team for ot keeping up with "content". Okay, it was the other 9 guys who showed up and YES...I was late I'm sorry. But it seems that people are reading it and maybe it will lead to future writing fame and fortune, like it did for Diablo Cody. Okay...hockey doesn't have the mass appeal/titilative factor, but hey...I could get Grant to take his shirt off and post a pic if that helps! Actually, Diablo Cody still refuses to attend any AK Bars games so I think I have to call it off with her. As if making movies is SOOOO important. Haha.....

OKay, per request, here is a summary of late of our battles, most importantly the latest disappointment vs. the Diablo's, who are fast becoming the team we most want to beat the crap out of. Here is their summary of our game:

http://diablohockey.blogspot.com/2008/03/diablos-4-ak-bars-2.html

Okay, what they fail to mention, which I admit is of course a pyrrhic victory, being we were unable to secure an actual victory, was Captain Larry El Trituratoro's gutsy call to pull Trey the Tree with a whopping 4:07 left with a 1-4 game. Well, holy gads if we didn't even manage a score in the meantime by scrappy little Nikolai, and they only came close ONCE to getting one in our net the whole time. Where is that in your sports page style blog Diablo's?? It was a meaningless thing and the goal changed nothing of course, but come on! I mean, I don't even try to emulate a journalistic style. I know what team I play for and, being way to self centered to even try to fake it!

Truth be told, we gotta scrap like that a hell of a lot more, as in the rest of the game. Play like the net is empty behind you maybe? The goal of the game came on such a bit of scrappy play. Kirk, playing the role of scrapper in our penalty kill managed to battle into the zone, split two guys at the left circle, and as he goes over the slot puts a gopher killer to the left side when the goalie was sliding right. Nice! I myself was playing forward again with Kirk and none other than our old pal Chad Johnson, who was subbing in being we were a bit short. Sadly, we were without our superstar, Jeren "Drop Pass" Anderson. His C0-Superstar Libby had shot after shot that night, but they have a pretty freaking good goalie. Brett had a rare no-goal evening.

Another dig on the Diablo's blog--They said they put up 36 shots to our 18. The official score sheet showed only 23 to our 18. This jives pretty well with what I recall, it seemed more even than that. So they have an imaginary 13 more shots that I am sure our stoic and stingy defense will beg to differ with. Not that I'm 100% confidant on the accuracy of the scorers (Where's Ms. Boyko when ya need her?), but hey, the official score card is...you know...official. More on THAT topic later....

The rest of the play by play of this game is predictable. We played a good game. Davey got an interference penalty. And I do love playing the Diablo's. And they seem to like playing us too. Before a face off, I mention to the guy across from me,

"I always enjoy playing you guys, good lively games"

"Yep", he says, "We like playing you guys too. Always a good game."

then he continues, " Its good to have a good clean, fun, clean, hard played, clean, exciting clean game"

***some author's embelishment present in previous line to illustrate a point. See also "dramatic license"***

"That's odd", I thought. "They have tons more penalties than WE do. I mean, except for Pavel."

And then the puck dropped and the Super squeaky clean game was back on. I would have fouled that guy somehow--I mean, I'd foul the guy as cleanly and Kum-Bye-Yah as I could, I'm not a monster (or Chris Pronger)--But I didn't get his number. The thing is, the best thing about the Diablo's is they play nice and rough and all that.

And the very best thing? The thing most chock full of awesomnessicity?? The Thing That Is Greater Than Other Things???

The surging Ice Gators beat them yesterday, putting us into 4th place overall (grrrrrrr on that but keep reading), with puts us in to play the Diablo's in the first round of playoffs on April 2nd at 7:15pm.


"Knock....knock......"

"Who's there??...."

"The AK Bars"

"AK Bars who??"


PAYBACK'S a BITCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!



**cue explosions and flashing lights, loud orchestral music and slo-mo effects"

And that's just the FIRST round :)

see you soon,

-Kai #10