SEMRAUS ABSENCE TO MUCH FOR THE EL ROCO

When the pepper came onto the ice they realized that the el roco bench was a little short. Not only that but the rocos all star chris semrau was missing. "Chris may not be the most crafty guy on the ice but he brings intimidation and heart to our team" captain skarperud said "we realized how important he is to our team tonight." The "game of the year" started off unusually for the pepper, with the rock scoring the first two goals of the game. "when the game started you could really tell they wanted a win, they had very crisp passes and were flying all over the ice" tom bryan said. But the pepper was not going to let this one get away. they answered back with a garbage goal by bydal and a very nice goal by tellmann that was set up by his linemates tofte and bydal. "the first goal was a great goal for a tubby guy like my self, i came around the net and the puck was sitting right there.....perfect" bydal said. The second period ended with the game all tied up at 2.

The second period started off with the red pepper scoring to go ahead by one. Brad lucke gave the very lighted footed joe bryan a pass up the middle and he went in and buried a back hander pass the goalie. "joe was almost a healthy scratch tonight, but i am really glad i kept him in the game, he earned himself a couple more games with his play tonight" tellmann said. The second ended with the score 4-4.

The third was a very tightly played period. The red pepper went up 5-4 with 7 minutes left with a goal by sprehe from a. smith. "when we scored that goal we could feel the win, we knew we had to just hold them off." said neppel. So with a pulled goalie and a minute left, the red pepper had multiple chances to put the game away but was unable to get the puck in the net, and with one second left on the clock, and horrible defense by MATT BYDAL, the rock was able to score a garbage goal to tie it up. "i dont know what the hell i was doing, i was at the blue line playing with my dingy when that goal was scored, i cant believe i let that happen" bydal said.

So a tie game equals a shoot out in the NHL and the GF Old timers league. "we knew they had a lot of talent to pull from, but we knew brandt could stand up to them" tofte said. And that he did, brandt allowed one goal in the shoot out and the pepper was able to win the game 6-5. "its just a huge win for our club its nice when a twins like team can beat the yankees" General Manager rob bethke said "my boys showed a lot of heart and determination and thats what this team is all about." In a post game interview with panzer the only thing he could say was "we needed semrau to keep us going, there was multiple times i wanted to put him out there to set the tone but i was unable to do so, i hope he doesnt miss anymore games."

Player of the Game.....................jake brandt

Quote of the night
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BOXSCORE
1
ER
ER
RP, Bydal (A. Smith, Neppel)
RP, Tellmann (tofte, bydal)
2
RP, J Bryan (lucke)
ER
RP, Lindgren (bydal)
ER
3
RP, Sprehe (a. smith)
ER..........DAMMIT BYDAL

SO
sphre sniped with a paul kariya like goal, lindgren got stopped, bydal went 5 hole and GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL

Record 5-2 with two wins against the rock...........................