Ladies and Gents, the AK Bars are back And we are....to put it mildly, the Champs! Yeppers, we continued our fall tournament domination by winning the 2008 AHA Fall Invitational up at the Blaine Super (duper) Rink. It was a hell of a weekend of hockey, lemme tell you. We had a game Friday night, two on Saturday and the Championship game early on Sunday morning. I was beat, let me tell you. Totally and completely drained. And I've got a HUGE bruise on my right arm. Ahh...battle scars....

Anyway, we did not get off to a great start on Friday as we managed to let a 2-0 lead evaporate into a very unsatisfying 2-2 tie against the Yellow Team. Everyone pretty much played rusty and it showed. They were a good team tho, very defensive, and we only had a few opportunities. I scored an UGLY one and Drew "The Big Swede" tipped in a nice crossing pass from Jaren "Sweet Hands" Anderson. But a tie is a bit of a dissappointment, and we were not happy about it.

Saturday was a different story, however. Between the Wildcats and the hapless Buccaneers, we went 3-0 and 7-0 respectively. The Bucs game was noted by the oddest thing we'd seen in a long time. Late in the game, with a 4-0 lead, our very own supermodel, Grant "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" Olson, apparently did something to offend one of them against the boards in their zone. The guy puffs his chest out and literally starts CHASING him around the rink, while meanwhile Grant himself seemed oblivious to it. But the guy was completely out of the play, wasn't following the puck at all! It was hilarious, even when he checks him into the boards, with one of his numbskull buddies piling on for good measure. They both get sent into the box of course and we had a 5 on 3 power play. This all went down about halfway through the 3rd period, so we added three more goals for their trouble on the remaning 5 minutes or so.

This all qualified us for the big champoinship game, and a rematch with the Yellow Team. More on that later.....