The "C" in Cervoni stands for Controversy ....
We have a Series on our hands!
This is the second installment of the Hervoni Series. The first took place during our inaugural Summer season at the Western Fair Sports Complex with Team Cervoni taking the win in a long hard fought 3 Games.
With a 1-0 Series lead coming into this game, the Hermans blitzed out of the gates to start the game. Some fast outlet passing and hard grinding down low was to be their strength.
A. Borek who got a rare start on the Wing as opposed to his regular Defensive position, chipped in with 1 Goal and 3 Assists. Making his coach look like a genius with the change, Shrek proved that he was too much man to handle in the blue paint. He could be found in and around the crease all day just hanging and banging terrorizing Team Cervoni.
Team Captain Shawn Herman contributed to his team with 1 Goal and 2 Assists while playing one of the cleanest games of his career. Shawn was overheard saying "I didn't even trip you once this week", during a post game discussion with A. Klimowicz.
Mid way through the game Klimo's inability to finish on some of the greatest passes we have ever seen from Cris Cervoni left Team Cervoni in a 5 - 1 hole. Adam was all Swedish and no Finish being stonewalled on at least 3 breakaways and another 3 one timers from the slot.
Jorge Goulart put up another stellar performance making save after save keeping the lead for The Hermans. His best save had to come on a One Timer from A. Klimowicz, the puck squeezed through under his arm as he dove across the net. Getting just enough of the biscuit to slow it down. Jorge's teammates ,cheering from the bench, looked on as he turned and pulled the bouncing puck off the line. A really special save from a Really, Really Special guy!
Just to prove everything was going Herman's way, C. Cervoni was breaking into the offensive zone with 2 players supporting him. What looked like a developing 3 on 2 quickly vanished as Cris nonchalantly flipped the puck up and over the boards.
.... Then came the turning point.
"you don't mess with the" Zyad, dangled through what seemed like an endless amount of white jerseys. Track pants blowing in the wind as he sped towards the net, Zyad made a quick move in tight and deposited the biscuit in the basket. The smiles on his teammates faces was almost as big as the Jofa helmet he brought back out of retirement.
The floodgates were open, Dan Tigert sniped one top cheddar off a nice feed from C. Cervoni. Chris Alpaugh had another terrific game. "Mr. All I do is score" registered another Hat-trick en route to a 4 point game.
Then the hour mark of the game struck and play was halted. A quick review of the white boards showed a narrow come from behind victory for Team Cervoni the 7-6 score line ties up the series at One game a piece.
BUT there is an asterisk .... and it's a big one.
After some investigation, Hockey-Life brass found that someone had marked a Goal down for Cris Cervoni on the white board. Cris Cervoni in fact did not score any goals on Saturday December 03 2011. You can see where this could cause some confusion. Here is the official Hockey-Life Ruling on the game:
Due to the fact that the goal may have actually happened, but marked under the wrong player. We cannot refuse to honour the Goal. It is important that when keeping track of goals, we either let the player scoring the goal mark it down or be 100% sure that it is in fact the player who scored.
In conclusion, the goal stands, the final score stands ... we have game 3 on our hands. Winner takes all.
See you all on Saturday!
