It was exactly one week after fielding an intrasquad
lineup of 16 skaters, and CU was facing embarrassment.
In true CU fashion, 10 minutes prior to the home
opener vs their cross-town rival Raiders, and a total of six skaters sat in
Room #2 celebrating a second beer fridge graciously donated by Wade
"Booster" Cable.
Panic subsided when 3-time tourney all-star Mike
"Smitty" Smith phoned to advise he was enroute. "Booster" decided it was time to
enlist an extra body and called son Ryan "Jumper" Cable. Attempts were made to contact Riley
"Feces eating grin" Morden, to no avail. Moments later an SOS advised Blaine "El
Presidente" Campbell would be arriving late (sound familiar? Think Sunday
AM vs Raiders at season ending tourney).
The good news was the club had 100% turnout from the 2011
recruiting class with Clayton "Hot & Spicy" Mychalchuk and Darren
"Mugsy" Mullin in attendance. The club hit the ice and in his first shift in the
"shiny" reds, rookie Clayton Mychalchuk, dented the twine to open the
scoring. In classic CU "Rope a Dope" fashion the game kept
seesawing between ties and one goal leads until a two goal lead was earned in
the final minutes.
Craig "Zdeno" Zamzow rounded out the scoring
with a goal from behind the net against former club mate Warren Clark, while
overcoming Smitty's screams of quit pinching you dumb "!#@*"
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| Warren "Wheels" Gray Despite going 1/11 on breakaways, Warren "Wheels" Gray still managed to pot a Hattie in the season opener. Surprisingly his younger sibling, Jeremy "OT Kid" Gray, couldn't beat Clark with a 16 shot on net performance . |
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| "OT" Kid |
Smitty's newly reconstructed knee courtesy of the $6
Million Dollar Man, was as good as gold, and he pulled out his 384th win for CU
while being badly out shot.
CU will look to build on their winning streak on home ice
next Wednesday night when the Mighty Bucks come to town donning a new
fashionable 3rd jersey!
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