Blue is Green with Envy as Green Takes Game One!

Green continued it's regular season dominance over Blue in game one of the playoffs last night much to the pleasure of the crowd who packed "The Doug" (Everett Arena) all decked out in Heineken green. "It was a sea of green", said Todd "Philby" Philbrick. "The crowd was so loud that I could hardly hear myself think", added goalie Tom "Harry" Harrison. That was probably a good thing! Harry was solid in net for Green but, Blue backstop Kenny "Can I get some LOVE" Bradley was spectacular in a losing effort. He stopped all but two of the first fifty shots that he faced in the opening five minutes of the first period. Captain Dave "Tilly" Tillotson opened the scoring for the Green attack. He added a second goal just minutes later and Green never looked back. "It was a total team effort", Tilly told reporters after the game, "but you have to admit that my two pretty much sealed the deal", he added. Tilly had been whispering in the ear of Gary "Toe" Blake about who he wanted to see in the line up for this playoff push. He got his wish as he dealt from the bottom of the deck so to speak. What a line up it was; Tilly, Clint "Eastwood" Casavaugh, Todd "Philby" Philbrick, Tom "Shemp" Champagne, George "Dumpin" Chase, Tom "Berg" Bergault, Mark "My Brother" Rudz, Jeff "Kano" Kane, Tom "Painch" Painchaud, Chris "Brownie" Brown and Greg "Hernia" Fournier made up this potent Green attack. "I picked up some guys at the trade deadline that know how to win the big games", said G.M. Blakey. "Berg", "Painch" and "Dumpin" are all fresh off of Black Ice championships", he added. "These guys know what it's like to hold a "Hobey", said Hernia. Despite Green's territorial advantage, "The Bradley Wall" was up and at the end of the first period Blue found themselves down by only two goals. "We didn't panic", said Dunc "Coach" Walsh, "we knew if we got a few opportunities we would be right back in the game". Coach was handed an opportunity at the beginning of the second which would have gotten Blue within one, but perhaps he SHOULD have panicked because he had Harry down and out, but he couldn't bury it thanks to my brother's backcheck. "I guess I should have put a little more on it", Coach told reporters as he tossed an empty Bud Light can toward the trash bucket

(which also missed it's mark). Green put any hopes for Blue at bay as George, Shemp and Rudz added three quick ones in one shift. "That was a dagger in our hearts", said Kurt "The Kaiser" Gillies. Green continued the onslaught. Blue tried everything to get back in the game. Heathy was launching rocket propelled grenades on Harry from all over the ice ,but Harry was solid in a Harry sort of way. Jack "Jackhammer" Fraiser even tried a Hail Mary pass from his own end zone but Harry wasn't fooled. "He's no Tom Brady", Harry joked after the game. "It was lousey reffing", griped Dan "Too Late" Earley. "We were short-handed all game thanks to bad reffing", complained Andy "BTO" Bauchman. Blue will have to go back to the drawing board and try to shake up their line up before game two. Green isn't getting too excited however; they know it will probably be a tough series and they expect Blue to come out with a vengence in game two. In the meantime; Enjoy this one Green fans! It's one step closer to the ultimate prize.
OH BROTHER WHERE ART THOU! I don't know if anyone noticed but, where were the brother acts last night? A league that boasts of it's "family values" was suspiciously without any of the brother tandems in last night's contest. No brothers Farrelly, Philbys, Tillys, Cummys or Rudz. It has been reported that legal troubles has again reared it's ugly head in three cases. It seems that the Supreme Court has overturned Governor Lynch's pardon of the White's Pond Duo. The euphoria that permeated the city when Governor Lynch pardoned two of Concord's leading citizens has turned to anger when it was announced that the Supreme Court had overruled the pardon. Tensions are high in the Capitol City right now. "We have to let cooler heads prevail", said attorney Dan "Lucky" Luker. "We don't want another Eygpt situation", added Greg "Moose" Moffet who heads the defense team for Rudz. "It's outrageous!" Mike Farrelly said as he was escorted back to maximum securtiy prison following the ruling. "We're not going to let him rot in there", declared Chris McLaughlin. "I am filing an injuction against the court ruling as soon as I get back to Concord from Keene (where he plays in a vastly inferior hockey league). As far as the other brothers missing last night: Reported as "lower body injuries".