Raoul Duke*
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We don't need names, of course. Initials will work fine in the end, made up or not.
My first year in Bantam, we had a dominant team. In fact, I think out 1995 Bantam team would defeat any team in Canada for our age... if it wasn't for this one guy:
RG.
Our offense was untouchable, we'd even get bored with scoring against weaker teams in out league - and just play games from the bench after we racked up enough goals to win. Like "who can get the most elbowing penalty minutes", "who can pick up the puck from our own end... kill time, skate with it past the red line again and go in to score" - things like that.
But come playoff time, our goalie RG was by far the worst sack of ... to ever play hockey. We were perfect at our scoring game, offense was never a problem. But this idiot in net when we had real competition...
As a goalie, he'd just go butterfly at the first sign of a shot. Then he didn't get up like a normal goalie. He had to put his hands on the ice, and push himself back up. Which sucks to begin with, but he had a habit of always doing that when he had his back turned to the play. Sometimes he'd use the crossbar to pull himself up.
Of course that means, he dropped his stick. And didn't stop any lateral movement shot EVER. Our team spent the first 3 rounds of the playoffs dropping to block shots Jason Smith style. We could score at will, but we'd get scored on with ease.
Provincial Finals - faceoff to Calgary, and our moron goalie was sipping on his water, back turned to the action... FROM THE DROP of the puck. They won the draw, and a winger for their team saw it - stepped over the red line and wristed it home.
We lost the final game 8-6. Even though they only managed 14 shots on net.
My first year in Bantam, we had a dominant team. In fact, I think out 1995 Bantam team would defeat any team in Canada for our age... if it wasn't for this one guy:
RG.
Our offense was untouchable, we'd even get bored with scoring against weaker teams in out league - and just play games from the bench after we racked up enough goals to win. Like "who can get the most elbowing penalty minutes", "who can pick up the puck from our own end... kill time, skate with it past the red line again and go in to score" - things like that.
But come playoff time, our goalie RG was by far the worst sack of ... to ever play hockey. We were perfect at our scoring game, offense was never a problem. But this idiot in net when we had real competition...
As a goalie, he'd just go butterfly at the first sign of a shot. Then he didn't get up like a normal goalie. He had to put his hands on the ice, and push himself back up. Which sucks to begin with, but he had a habit of always doing that when he had his back turned to the play. Sometimes he'd use the crossbar to pull himself up.
Of course that means, he dropped his stick. And didn't stop any lateral movement shot EVER. Our team spent the first 3 rounds of the playoffs dropping to block shots Jason Smith style. We could score at will, but we'd get scored on with ease.
Provincial Finals - faceoff to Calgary, and our moron goalie was sipping on his water, back turned to the action... FROM THE DROP of the puck. They won the draw, and a winger for their team saw it - stepped over the red line and wristed it home.
We lost the final game 8-6. Even though they only managed 14 shots on net.