"I couldn't make it, I had to work. I can't make it next week either."
The Velvet Rope now leads the league in all goaltender related stats: GAA, Save Percentage, jersey size etc., but it's Bobette who holds the top spot in the most coveted stat: Plus/Minus.
"As soon as I laced on the sneakers for the first time," he reminisced, "I just had the gift, I guess. I'd get a bad feeling in my stomach, and as soon as that would happen I'd run off as quickly as I could, no matter where the ball was on the floor, and the other team, more often than not, would score just after the change. Coaches and teammates got jealous of my plus/minus I think. They'd call me reckless. But hey, you know what they say, everyone breaks eggs at some point."
Johnny Garbageman holds the fifth spot amongst all players for floortime, trailing his teammate Matt by only 45 seconds.
"My damn shoelace came untied," he growled with a smile, "I tried to play and tie it at the same time, but the ref thought I was hopping like that because I was injured and ordered me off. I called Dave back off as soon as it was tied. I didn't know he was gonna just throw it at our own net."
"That definitely hurt Johnny's plus/minus," said Bobette. "I had to come off, so I just tried to create a bit of chaos to kill time, and it worked out badly in the end. For Garbageman, not for me; I was on the bench by the time the goal went in. I ran up to the scorekeeper after to tell him, actually, because it was pretty close, and I was worried he'd missed it."
The Flying Dutchmen tread the boards tomorrow night at some time against The Bacon Strips. No time to edit this. sorry.
