Brian Metcalfe Landscaping's Year Ends at the Hands of Ryno Motors

Semi Final Sunday, year in and year out brings a reminder to the league that this game that we all love can be beautiful but isn't always fair. After an amazing season where Brian Metcalfe Landscaping did almonst everything right. Coming second narrowly in the season and then a brilliant playoff loop performance where they would walk away coming first in the league and started so well that they made their last game non consequential, they would play Ryno Motors on Sunday morning in a must win semi final. The game was fast and it was clear that both teams wanted to win. Ryno Motors would strike first to see themselves go ahead 1-0. Commissioner Tim McGrath would tie the game shortly after that...or so BML thought until the goal was controversially called a high stick. BML would regain their stride however and Tim would eventually score that next goal to make this game tied at 1-1. Ryno Motors would again take the lead though making the game 2-1 and then for what felt like 15 minutes the game would be stalled at this score, each team trading chances until Ryno Motors would pull ahead again and score a 3rd goal. That would prove to be enough and BML's season would end at 8:50 on Sunday morning. It will be an off season of what could have been for this squad. This years team brought a lot of good times but as the team learned Sunday it only takes one loss for it to go by the way side.

Bruce's Year ends in a Shootout Loss to ProFoam Insulation Inc.

Bruce's Car Care hadn't played in a meaningful game really all year. After getting out to a strong start in the season, 2024 wasn't great to this team as they would go on a slide to end the season and their playoff performance left a lot to be desired going 2-2. They would finish first in the season and drop to 2nd after the playoff loop but similar to BML, they needed to win a game on Sunday to keep the season alive and were unable to. The game couldn't had started worse, as ProFoam Insulation came out and scored 24 seconds into the game. ProFoam wouldn't stop there either, in the first 10 minutes of the game they would add another goal to bring the game to 2-0 and then add yet another goal 5 minutes later to widen the gap to 3-0. Bruce's would be climbing a mountain to get back into this game and they almost did to. They would score a goal to bring the game to within 2 goals heading into the break. In the second period it was a lot of Bruce's Car Care offense as they peppered shots at ProFoam but they stood tall. The team would get a power play with 11 minutes to go and Luke Martin would take this game over and score on that power play and he would add another goal 3 minutes later. With the game tied 3-3, Bruce's would continue their offensive attack but it wasn't enough, the game would go to shootout where they would ultimately lose 2-1. Ending a good season in a shootout. 

Ryno Motors Needs a Heck of a Saturday Afternoon

(Full game write up on the front page - "League News").

Ryno Motors will have to come together and have a great effort on Saturday afternoon in order to hoist this years keg cup. The team had to have felt good about most of that first game of the finals but a couple of bad bounces that were capitalized from ProFoam Insulation Inc, has put them in a win or nothing scenario on Saturday where they will have to win, bring the game to overtime and score before ProFoam does to end this the way they want to. 

History tells us that this is possible but is certainly a hard task. They will need a hero or even heroes to emerge on Saturday in order see their picture on this website for the next 365 days.