I Can Predict The Future!

I have to imagine after my predictions last week, some may be coming to my house to see if I have a DeLorean sitting in my driveway with me working on the flux capacitor. Well, I don't. There is no time machine, no crystal ball, and I'm not the second coming of Nostradamus. I simply take the facts and put them together to determine what to me is an obvious outcome to our games.

Last week, I predicted Red Alert wins 7-6 over Irwins. The final was an Irwins win of 3-0. Although on the surface one may say this is wrong (or not even close), I beg to differ. With the quality of refs we have in this league, goals are missed all the time. For those watching the game from the lounge, we clearly saw Feathers and Scholz each score hat tricks. Now I can understand how the refs may miss a close call, but 6? C'mon, there is so much riding on this game that the least they could do is pay attention. The ultimate mistake came with 32 seconds left. At this point the score (in reality) was 6-6 and there was a face off in Irwins zone. As soon as the ref drops the puck, he turns to the Irwins bench to get a drink of water from Wheeler. At that time, Wallace of Red Alert fires a puck into Irwins net for what is clearly a goal, but the goalie pulls it out of the net and throws it down the ice towards Red Alert's net. By this time, Hansen is jumping up and down in celebration of the goal that he believes is the game winner and the puck rolls into the net behind him. The refs turn in Tony's directions and see the puck just as the buzzer sounds and victory is given to Irwins. I was shocked along with the 5 other fans in the lounge that such an atrocity could occur.

The 2nd games prediction was Alien 5, Hawgs 2. The final result was Alien 5-3. My prediction took into account our own goalie playing in that game. Turns out he was unable to make it last minute and we acquired Tony Hansen as a sub. As invincible as our defense is, we still cannot make up for Tony's lack of effort in this game and he lets in a softy to skew my prediction just a tad. Thanks Tony...thanks for nothing.

The final game of the night was predicted as a Voodoo win 5-4 with Koenig scoring the game winner at the very end. Turns out the score was on the money, but it was a Huyck/Johnson combo at the end to win it for Kryptonite. There are some things that even I could not predict. Who would have thought that when the game was on the line, the players of Kryptonite would even allow Huyck and Johnson on the ice during the last 4 minutes of the game. Typical win strategy would suggest that your worst players sit on the bench with their helmets off observing their teammates try and win the game. Bystanders thought it was a brilliant strategy to have these 2 out there, but in reality it was a mistake. As the clocked ticked down with the score 4-4, Huyck and Johnson skated to the bench after some horrifying play. Hill yells down the bench "You guys play like sin!". Johnson and Huyck quickly jump back onto the ice and scamper to Voodoos end to team up for the game winner. Afterwards, Johnson says he thought Hill had said "You guys get us a win!".

In the end, short of the craziness, I was pretty well dead on. So to keep the string alive, here are Week 5's picks....

Kryptonite Vs. Red Alert
With Paul Knight back in the line up for Kryptonite, the team is bound for a loss. Red Alert breaks their winless streak this Wednesday by a score of 5-3.

Alien Vs. Irwins
As powerful as Alien is this year, they will have a challenge stopping the Martinson/Cashman duo. Regardless of who is in Irwin's net (the world never knows until 5 mins before the game), they still sneak out the win 6-5 over Alien. Bishop of Alien gets tossed from this game due to inappropriate team uniform.

Voodoo Vs. Hawgs
After disappointing losses for both teams last week, someone walks away with a 4-1 record. Goalie Reeves for Voodoo is fired up for this game after an altercation with his own teammate Damos last week. Some negative words were thrown, then Damos threw a tape ball and hit Kacy in the knee. "We're all better now" stated Whitaker, "our team needed that passion on the ice." Defending champ Hawgs looked like 14 year old molasses on the ice last week. The LePeras struggled, Schumacher looked sluggish and Bartak decided to not even show. I believe this team is on a slide with Voodoo getting the win. Voodoo wins 8-7.