“TA-TONKA! TELLERMATE WINS!”
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2001 • KUDZU HOCKEY LEAGUE
TELLERMATE vs. BUFFALOES
Tellermate 6 • Buffaloes 5
ATLANTA, GA -- Inspired by the pleas of Tellermate Superfan
#24518 (Ms. Sandra Moore of Boston, MA) for a victory report,
team Tellermate stepped up last night and delivered. But it
didn't come easy.
The last time these two teams met, the evening ended in an overtime
shootout (that left Tellermate a wee bit disappointed). With
that bitter memory in mind, Tellermate brought an intensity
to the opening half of the game not seen since the days of Eddie
Shore (or maybe the Hanson Brothers).
The game was scoreless for the first four or five minutes, but
then star Tellermate center, Greg "Skates Like an Epileptic
Ice Queen" Rolnick took matters into his own hands. Using
his patented, "draw the dumb defender towards the corner"
technique, he fired a bouncy pass across the middle to his winger,
who quickly controlled the ball and shot it home. After the
initial score, Tellermate broke out to a 3-0 lead going into
the second half.
Feeling perhaps a bit too cocky, Tellermate made some defensive
mistakes and allowed the scrappy Buffaloes to get back into
the game. A four-goal run brought the score to 5-4, and with
two minutes left in the game, the Buffaloes used some sort of
Jedi-mind trick and snuck one past the sagging Tellermate defensive
line. Faced with the possibility of an incredibly unlikely and
embarrassing loss, Rolnick was quite clear as he bellowed from
the bench: "For Christs' sake! Just hurt somebody!!!"
"And score," quipped his bench mate. "Yeah! That
too!" echoed Rolnick.
And they did.
Taking advantage of the Buffaloes goalie's tendency to come
waaaaaaay out of the net on a breakaway, Todd "the Mighty
Eskimo" Quinn, deked left, feigned right, forced the goalie
to dive (somewhere around ten feet in front of the crease),
then skated around him and pushed the ball into the net. And
the rest, as they say, is history...
With the almost unbeknown feeling of victory in their collective
psyches, team Tellermate looks to keep the streak going this
coming Tuesday.
So STAY TUNED!!! |