Playoffs Baby - Game 2 - Fight For Our Worth

Thursday was game 2 of the best of three series between the Sharks and the Ghetto Superstars. Should the Ghettonian ones win they would force an immediate 20 minute tie break to determine the winner. Wanting to end all hopes of any chance of a win for the Ghetto Superstars, the Sharks elected to send out the Chow Dang Chen line to start the game. Five minutes later we were down 0-2, ugh...

This was a totally different beast from the team that we steam rolled just a week earlier. They had a new goalie, I think, and everyone seemed to be skating faster.

The opposing goals kept on coming, and with little to no resistance, the Sharks fell behind 4-1 early in the second. Speedy Kevin would later admit to contemplating to throw the second game so that everyone had energy for the all important tie break game.

Midway through the second, the Sharks found their legs and started mounting back an offense. With the top line pouring in goals, the re-energized Sharks tied the game at four a piece early in the third.

Trying to fight back from letting in the first goal, the Chow Dang Chen line grinded out the third period, with the best chances going to Dang. Parked in his office, Dang was the recipient of some nasty cross checks and two great chances, that somehow stayed out of the net.

Speaking of the net, it was made of titanium or some other really light metal, maybe aluminum. The net came loose twenty times, no exaggeration. The Ghetto Superstars' goalie would skate out to cut down the angle, slowly skate backwards into the net, bump into the net, move it off its designated crease area and the ref would blow the play dead.

The Sharks would get the tying goal with the third half gone, and with momentum clearly shifted to our end, the Sharks overloaded the opposing goalie to get the go ahead goal. Excitement and anxiety built up with minutes remaining in the third. Down a goal the Ghettonian ones pulled their goalie to try to tie it up.

With the pressure mounting on the Sharks end of the ice, a penalty was called on one of our players, leading to a deadly looking six on four man advantage for the Ghetto Superstars. Time ticked away but the play was still in the Sharks' zone, until speedy Kevin got hold of the puck and slapped it out of our zone and down the ice. The whole bench stood to watch as the puck slid slowly past the blue line and into the Ghetto Sueprstars' net, triggering an eruption of cheers on the Sharks bench, and a shattering of hope on the other.

There was half a minute to go, but for all intensive purposes, the game was over. Having let in four goals early, Mike the giant goalie shut out the Ghetto Superstars for the rest of the game, as we clawed our way back to take it 6-4.

Second round baby! Here we come!