The night started with a truly unique visit from several of the lead bugs before the game. It was 100 degrees and sticky as hell, while we sat content outside of Ziggy’s to stratigize our offense for the upcoming battle against Hockyman’s multi dimensional team. All of the key bugs were in agreement on what we should do to castrate the opponents.

During the first few seconds of the game, the Weevils showed why they do not belong in the loser’s bracket in this tournament. All that pent up anger and bitterness from the loss we incurred from Team ‘Add guys for the playoffs’ Magna Group, caused us to put a proper beat down on Vincent’s of Raleigh. Pinna steps up and buries the first goal with no problem. Tom Brown even got a goal before he was sent off the ice for instigation, and assessed a game misconduct for ‘giving a guy a ride’. But all was still well, as the bugs regrouped and started popping in goals like tic tacs. Looking back down the ice to our end, Mich was doing her nails and making sure her pits didn’t smell as there was nothing else to do.

Zarby was skating like the wind and put the next two in the net with some great passing from the Pinna. Uni picks one out of the air on a nice pitch from Sattora, and he didn’t even need a tee! This is when Sattora decided he was done passing and gets his hat trick out of the way in 3 great strokes. All within 5 minutes. His last was a face-off from center ice that he reached down and pumped up his skates 4 times then with lightning speed, he raced past the entire team and beat the goalie with no moves. That is how the A line does it baby! Skatch probably would have scored by now, but he was too busy day dreaming about the new jerseys and his new line of salad dressing.

The third period starts of with Kevin Moore scoring all alone from the comfort of his couch, 35 miles away in Cary. Now that was a sweet goal! Also Pinna’s wonderful girlfriend puts down her book and decides to steal a pass from Vincents and takes it in all by herself to score a goal. Now that is fan appreciation! But what is this? Bmoore can’t score on this roughed up and pathetic looking goalie? Bullshite! He takes it in all alone and beats the goalie with his first move, but that is not enough as he decides to add 16 more moves until the goalie is laying down without his shirt and pants, in a puddle of knuckle children when Bmoore finally decides to slide the puck over the line. It was reminiscent of when he used to play keep away from his brother with a lollipop from Knots Berry Farm. Bmoore then picked up the goalies shorts and skated to the bench, he was quoted upon arrival, “I am taking these for my trophy room.”

Of course we could not have a game story without acknowledging Diddle’s game securing hat trick, as they were getting awful close to breaking into our zone. Diddle breaks out a nice pass to Sattora who delivers it back to him as Sattora was all out of Knuckle Children for the evening. Not knowing this Diddle trys to pass it back to Sattora in an attempt to be unselfish. But San gets irritated and puts it back on Diddle’s stick and threatens to put him in time out if he passes it back again. Diddle doesn’t like time out so he rockets one top shelf from 3 feet away and dances for 8 straight minutes, even showing off his new patented 40 foot knee slide back to the bench.

Everyone on our bench is looking back at Mich, who is carving a maze in the crease with her toe pick. We decided to let one through and see if she could recover in time to stop their only shot of the game. But she must have been thinking, “I will show them! Trying to catch me off guard and playing a trick on me!” She sidesteps and lets them have one then thumbs her nose at us and resumes her masterpiece maze.

Well the bitterness was flushed out in a 19-1 win and we can now go back to just playing hard and winning games. The next time we play Magna, they better be ready for an irritated bunch of bugs. These kinds of things tend to start up rivalries. Now that the ringers have their best player missing most of the games to tour with Simon and Garfunkel, the breakup was mutual.