Spiders Sledded Out of Town by Dogs

Dec. 21, 2012

There’s not much to write home about concerning Friday night’s tilt featuring the Spiders and the Sled Dogs. Your favorite team was trounced 6–2 at the Richfield Arena.

Once again, the first period featured the back-and-forth scoreless play that characterizes early-game Spiders hockey these days. The oversized crowd (number of persons, not weight) was treated to free samples of No-Doze at the four minute mark.

The second period turned out to be a rude awakening, however, for the sleeping Spiders. It started out on a positive note when Berman popped in a fat puck off a rebound over the sideways goalie for the first goal of the game. Assist to Schwinn. The Sled Dogs started yipping and yapping, playing tic-tac-toe with the puck, and found the back of the net three times before the Spiders could respond with another lazy rebound shot up top by Freed late in the second period. Assists to Grotbeck and Schuster.

At 3–2 bad guys, it was still a close game at the end of the second, but the wheels came off in the third. Whether it was old age, lack of conditioning, bad tacos, or all three conspiring at once, the Spiders couldn’t muster the luster and went down angry. The Dogs went 2-for-4 on the power play and didn’t look back, even as the Spiders outshot, out-yelled, and out-flipped-off the refs. Nothing worked or helped and Spiders left the ice licking their wounds.

The Dogs outplayed the Spiders with crisp passing, odd-man rushes, and dose of vengeance for their loss at the hands of the Spiders in the first game of the year. The season series is tied at one game apiece. The Spiders have a chance for their revenge in the tiebreaker February 10. Bring the No-Doze and Prozac.