After our second straight weekend sweep it's about time for me to get back to posting. I am sorry for the lack of recent activity although I was pleasantly surprised to learn that people actually noticed. At any rate, my history seminar paper is almost finished and I finally have some time to breathe so I'll do my best to make up for lost time, although it will have to be in two parts.

Last weekend's road trip to Union and RPI brought the Big Green our first wins of the season, evening our overall record at 2-2. It had been a while since the team took two games on a road weekend and since the freshman class hadn't heard our sweep song and most of the sophomores had forgotten the words it was about time to get after it.

A little bird...

Union College is always a difficult team to play on the road because the rink is small, their stands are almost right on top of the rink, and Nate Leaman's teams are consistently among the hardest working in the league. A lot of the credit for this win had to be given to our younger players as Jody O held solid in the pipes while Scott 'Babyjibs' Fleming led our offensive efforts with a pair of ginos.

Honorable mention for the Big Green play of the game had to go to Joe 'Hey-Der' Stejskal for his breakaway slap shot goal straight out of the box, but I think Andrew Owsiak took top honors with a diving two-on-one finish before piling himself into the end boards. To cap the win I wasn't too proud to close out the third with my first empty-netter of the year.

Flew around...

I felt that the RPI game was the first time this season that we have really dictated the play for a whole game. RPI is a hard-hitting team this year with a few big Dmen and a couple of power forwards that always take the body first and the puck second but we stuck to the basics and were able to move the puck all night.

They key for us this game was definitely our power play. After we traded goals in the first period, Stejskal netted two back door rebounds in the second frame before RPI stole some momentum back scoring with 6 seconds left in the period. In the third, Evan Stevens buried another PP marker and Fleming closed the game out with an unexplainable top cheese empty-netter to finish off a four goal weekend that landed the 'Grey-Area' center the ECAC player of the week honor.

I'll hopefully be able to finish catching up on our more recent action tomorrow night after my paper draft is safely in the drop box. Sorry again for the delay, after this week the posts should be coming more regularly.

A little bird...