We are the Champions!!!!

Yes ladies & gentlemen, February 11, 2007 will go down as one of the most important days in recent history. Tonight, under a pressure-packed atmosphere and in front of 1 or 2 spectators, we, the Statistics Department intramural floor hockey team won the grad school hockey CHAMPIONSHIP, winning 7-6 in a well-fought, hard-battled championship game, avenging our only loss of the season to 'Brian's Team'.


Your 2007 GSA floor hockey champions!!!







After a 30-minute delay for technical difficulties (i.e. the lights had to warm up after being inadvertently shut off), we came out of the gates on fire! After some sick saves by Dave 'The Cat' Friedenberg on the PK, we opened up the scoring in the first period on a wrister by Elan 'Don't mess with Dave or I'll put you on your ass' Cohen and took a 3-0 lead into the 1st intermission. But our scrappy opponents wouldn't go away, tallying three goals in the second period to our one. We padded our lead early in the 3rd period with a rocket from half court by Steve 'You can't stop me, you can only hope to contain me' Wasik. However, Brian's Team still had a few good shots in them, and promptly catapulted themselves to a 6-5 lead. Things were looking bleak for the Statisticians, but that's when we were at our best, winning lose pucks, scrappin' in the corners, and pounding home a couple rebounds to take a 7-6 lead with under 3 minutes left. After a few stellar defensive plays we iced this baby away with an impeccable ball-control clinic. And of course best of all, we won t-shirts!