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I’m sorry.

Losing sucks losing sucks losing sucks. And it really really sucks when you do it three games in a row. It super duper sucks when you have been hashtagging #championshiporbust and you’ve been hyping up the team all fall as the bees knees. And last but not least losing super duper especially SUCKS when your team has FOUR GOALS in THREE GAMES.

YUCK. Longnecks fall to Firehouse Pub 4-1 in a frustrating performance that left the Necks with more questions than answers. Leading up to the game, the Necks were missing 4 regulars, making room for 4 subs. The subs filled in admirably, but we were definitely hurting without a core four that were missing.

Firehouse took a 2-0 lead in the first on two absolute snips. I can’t even really blame Goalie as much as I would want to because the shots were pretty damn beautiful. But let’s put it this way, if he would have stopped those two shot we wouldn’t have been down 2-0…make sense?

Late in the first, or maybe early in the second? Idk. Who cares, you don’t care, no one cares. Life is meaningless…. we scored. Finally. We had a sub take a reckless clap bomb from the point, the rebound ricocheted off the goalie like a super bounce ball and Death Threat was right there to clean it up and bury on the empty net. He nearly whiffed on it too, but it was much needed and the score was 2-1. Death Threat leads the team in scoring, accounting for 50% of our goals with 2. God we are fucking EMBARRASSING.

In the second period I’m pretty sure Firehouse had maybe three shots. All non-threatening. We had to of out-shot them 10-3. We hit posts, we got robbed, and, as usual, we didn’t fucking finish. The worst part about this game is that we had 4 power plays. FOUR. That is unheard of for a beer league hockey game, and we were unable to convert on any of them.

In the middle of the third, Firehouse took a wild cowboy clapper that somehow found it’s way to the back of the net. Just a lucky fluke shot. That goal was very indicative of how the entire season has gone thus far, chances and goal-less pressure at one end, flukey and timely goal scoring on the other.

When the score was 3-1, we yanked Goalie with 2 minutes remaining in the third. With 6 men on the ice I had the puck behind the net, I went to pass the puck off the boards to Heist who was at the point. When I bounced it off the boards it hit the smallest piece of plastic sticking out and took the craziest fucking right angle bounce right to Firehouse, who promptly went to ice it, and found the back of our empty net. It all happened so fast. Up until that moment I really believed we were going to win the game.

Here’s the thing though- #championshiporbust is still in effect. We are off to a slow start but that’s only because we all had a very fast summer. We’re getting closer to that first W and once we get it our scoring and winning percentage is going to open like flood gates.

I am unhappy with the start? Sure. Do I question my manhood? Absolutely. Are the dedicated Longneck faithful turning on us? Umm…..

Here’s the deal, trust the fucking process. Keep sticking your Neck out and good things will happen. We will bounce back from this and will soon be an absolute force to be reckoned with.

The Necks next 3 games are versus the three best teams in the league. Not kidding. Hold onto your butts.

#SYNO

– Frank