With Bear trying out several new look lines, Serenity was more than willing to be the guinea pigs as Serenity went viral in an 11-4 shellacking for the ages.
Todd (The Body) Gryschuk got things off to a rollicking start with a goal just 10 seconds into the game as he also collected an assist. Jim (Great) Scott didn’t take long to get in on the act as he scored his first of two soon after. Also having multi-point games were Lee (Nitro) Naeth who completed his hat trick on the all important 11 goal, Brian (Bruiser) Inwood who stormed the net for a goal and added 2 helpers, which matched the output for (Rockin) Rob Lentz. Doubling his offensive output for the season from two points to four was Builder’s stay at home D-Man Richard (Prince) George, as he and Eric (Bonsai) Bodman collected a pair of helpers each.
The Serenity player most excited over the scoring frenzy was (Billy) Joel (McAllister) Marsh, who scored the hat trick and added an assist to climb into the top 10 scorers and earn the bonus money that his Westroad employers had offered up as a carrot.
The only multi-point players for a Bear side who need to find their Mojo stat was (Silent) Seth Phillips and Craig (Man on Fire) Pryor who both notched their 10 and 11 of the season.
The other contest saw plenty of goals early with Blue Collar coming back to defeat the regular season champion Chevy Crew 5-3.
Holding off (Nitro) for second in the scoring race was Kevin (Nightrider) Hesslegrave who scored a hat trick thanks to his line mate who kept feeding him the puck and (Hot) Rod Albers who had a trio of assists. Continuing to play up to his draft number was Colin (The Cannon) Keis, who scored once and added an assist, as Glen (The Chemist) Boudreau rounded out the scoring.Collecting a pair of assists, but failing miserably in his scoring challenge with Steve (Paperback Writer) Dodge was George (John, Ringo) Paul, who, despite using a Norwegian wood stick and relying on a little help from his friends that only yesterday made him a top scorer, will have to let it be until next year. Meanwhile, back in the FHL Penthouse, the Fraser River-rats received unassisted beauties from Bruce (Is Loose) Broughton and Ken (Mercury) McMillan, before Ian (Heartbreaker) Hannah scored his 34 of the season to claim the Curtis (The Flash) Fenton and Rick (The Wizard) Izzard silver hardware for points and goals respectively.
The FHL now turns to mostly P.M. times as their Lumber Cup Playoffs begin April 2 in the Barn on Barlow.
Steve Dodge is a defensive winger with Bear Communications and an Observer contributor.
