STEELERS DWELLING NEAR THE CELLAR

The Steelers headed into Tuesday's contest tied with the Cellar Dwellars with 3 points…3 points more than the cellar dwelling Black Russians who have yet to notch a point in this year's campaign. The Steelers with missing Mark Serdan who was faithfully supporting the Leafs, Anthony Lam who was faithfully supporting his staff as they prepared the quarter end numbers, and Olesh who was…actually not sure what Olesh was doing, 'cause I didn't get an e-mail saying he wouldn't show. The Cellar Dwellars sporting their retro Atlanta Thrashers home jerseys made the game against the Steelers look like an inter squad game as the Steelers dawned their traditional light blue Thrasher jerseys.

The Steelers opened the scoring early in the first as Mike Didulka went five-hole on a surprised Dwellar keeper. The teams traded goals a couple of times until the third period, when tied at 2, the Dwellars broke out 2 on 1 and got past a helpless Steeler defenceman who got his stick knocked out of his hands (ok, the defenceman was me), and snuck one past Richard for the game winner. The Steelers had chances to tie it late as the team put on some good pressure including a blast from Larry Romaniuk that found the trapper for the Dweller goaltender who came up big during the last couple of minutes. The Dwellers added an empty netter to make the final score 4-2.

Scoring summary:

Didulka G 1 (4) A 0
Nolan G 1 (6) A 0
McCartney G 0 A 1 (3)
Durigon G 0 A 1 (3)
Romaniuk G 0 A 1 (2)

After some good beverages and awful wings in the bar that night, Steeler management decided to shake things up for next game. We will literally pull the line-up out of a hat for the next game. So, as people arrive, we will pull from a hat a note that will indicate what position that person will play that night. We already drew one for Nick and lucky for him, he's playing in net. So anybody can play anywhere. Let's just see how it works and have fun with it…it's not the playoffs.

Let me know if you can't make it. We play pretty early this week - it's at 7:15pm vs the Black Plague.