February 20, 2017. Wags Vs. Crooked Stix Alec Paloumpis was back and helped Wags bounce back from a tough loss to the Ice Age (last place team ) They had 2 ringers who scored most of their goals. (Spear gun Dan's nephews Jeff and Mike) Wags demonstrated good sportsmanshipby sharing beers with 3 of the Ice Age players after the game. The Crooked Stix players could learn a lesson from that because they were really poor losers when they fell behind and realized that they were doomed to lose. The game was scoreless for most of the 1st period until Kevin "Smooth as" Glass redirected a blast from Torry "Snuffy" Snick. Tony "The Tiger"Letto picked up an assist with 3:09 left in the period. 90 seconds later, Kyle "Killer" Sandowski one timed a pass from Jay "Roadrunner" Demaria
and gave
Wags demonstrated good sportsmanship after their loss last week.
Wags a 2-0 lead, but The Crooked Stix made it 2-1 thirty seconds later. They tied it late in the second period. That set up a thrilling 3rd period. Roadrunner Jay got the lead back early in the 3rd period when he scored on a pass from
Tom "Cowboy" Conoboy, but that lead only lasted a minute and 10 seconds, so the thriller continued until Wags scored 3 unanswered goals in a 150 seconds. The string of goals started with a sniper snap shot by Killer Kyle after RoadrunnerJay won a faceoff in the offensive zone with 9:45 left to play. Thirty seconds later,
Cowboy" Conoboy blew a bad angle shot past the rattled goalie.
Joe Santelli got an assist. Jack "The Ripper" Iandoli capped off an excellent game when he ripped a slap shot from the point that put Wags up 6-3 with 7:03 left to play. Tommy Z-MAN Zagorski and Tory Snick set up the goal with some great passing. That goal brought out the crooked sportsmanship. Until then, the game was free of cheap shots. The final five minutes had many slashes and ended with Jay and a foe exchanging slashes and insults that looked like a "Political rally". Tory answered a late Crooked Stix goal with a long empty net goal that gave Wags a thrilling 7-4 win. Wags Schedule: Thursday March 2, 2017 9:40 PM in the American Rink
Ed Waghorn was in the stands giving encouragement to his players.
February 20, 2017 Highlights:
Tom Zagorski: 1 Assist Jay Demaria: 1 Goal, 2 Assists Jack Iandoli: 1 Goal, 1 Assist MVP Kevin Glass: 1 Goal Kyle Sandowski: 2 goals Torry Snick: 1 Goal
Tom Conoboy: 1 Goal, 1 Assist
Alec Paloumpis: 16 Saves X 2 or 3
Jeff and Mike combined for 4 goals to hand Wags a tough loss.
