Thursday June 3, 2010 – Pilgrim Arena

The Kings watched a 4-1 lead waste away and escaped with a 5-5 tie against the Icebergs last night. Despite never trailing in the game, the Kings couldn’t hold the lead against a short-benched Icebergs team and narrowly escaped a loss with a key save by Ed in the waning seconds. The Kings got off to a fast start on Fran’s goal, and Paul got sprung on a breakaway after the Icebergs bobbled a faceoff win in the Kings defensive zone. After the Icebergs got on the board the Kings came back with a pretty goal by Alan, one-timing a centering pass from Josh on the right wing. In the second the Icebergs scored three times, including one in the last seconds of the period to tie the game. Alan got on the board again to regain the lead but it was short-lived as the Icebergs came back down the ice and tied it again. The rest of the period saw some decent chances by both teams but the momentum was clearly with the Icebergs. Ed shut down the net for the night, however, stoning the Icebergs’ best shooter with less than a minute left as he tried to go short side on the left wing.

Friday March 19, 2010 – Canton Sportsplex

The Kings offense kept rolling with several nice goals to top the Young Guns 5-2 last night. Ian opened the scoring on a feed from Frank who found him in the slot for the quick score; however Steve Hoff for the Guns quickly evened the score, embarrassing a hapless Kings defender before putting it past Ed on the stick side. Fran regained the lead with an end to end rush, and Burger padded the score, putting home a rebound off a nice tip by Greg on a shot from the point by Bob. After the Young Guns got back within one, John got another tally on a rush up ice with Pete, who finished the scoring with a nice shot from the right faceoff circle that beat Richie low stick side. Ed looked sharp as ever and the Kings defense managed to keep most of the shots to the outside.

Next week is our final regular season game; the playoffs start soon after (don’t have a schedule yet). With a win over the Hackers on Wednesday we can lock up 2nd place in the division.

The Kings, with a little help from the Young Guns extended hockey family, took part in the annual Bostonfest tournament this past weekend, cramming 5 games into 3 days trying to win some cash against a bunch of other teams from the area. The Kings were placed into a 4 team division in a 9 team conference, with a pretty favorable schedule for a change. We started out playing Phoenix on Friday night, winning 6-4 behind Dave Sutton and Steve MacIsaac’s strong offense. The next game was against the Mass. Army Reserve/National Guard team, who came back from a 5-0 deficit to tie the game, only to see the Kings score the gamewinner with literally no time left on the clock. The Kings later played Olde Time Hockey, again building a sizable lead and almost losing it before time expired. With a perfect 3-0 record in the tournament, the Kings got the top seed in the division and got the early semi-final game on Sunday morning against the Boston Starz, who were called in after the 2nd place team couldn’t put a whole team on the ice. The Starz had only 5 skaters at the start to the Kings’ full bench, and the Kings took the lead early and never looked back, eventually winning a 7-2 game and earning a berth in the championship game.

Mass ARNG won a 4-3 decision in the other semi-final, nearly giving up the tying goal in the last seconds of the game with the puck on the goal line and the goalie down and out. After a couple breaks because of fire alarms, the Kings and Mass ARNG played a tight, scoreless game. Both teams had some great chances but Richie from the Young Guns, filling in for Ed in net, made some absolutely spectacular saves to keep the Kings going. Unfortunately one just got away from Richie in OT and the Kings lost the title game 1-0.

Thanks again to everyone who came out, including the last minute subs, who made the weekend a lot of fun for everyone.

A solid three period effort powered the Kings to a 4-3 victory over the Hackers in West Roxbury on Thursday night.  The Hingham bus was reunited and Wally opened the scoring early in the first.  Hackers tied it up, but Jeff put the Kings back in the lead in the second on a delayed penalty going hard to the net, slipping the puck under the Hackers goalie.  Hackers tied it up again, before John put the Kings in the lead for good with a breakaway blocker side goal.  Josh netted the game winner from the crease, collecting a pass from behind the net and again sliding under the Hackers goalie.  The Hackers goalie made several tremendous saves and really kept his team in the game.  The Hackers intercepted a clearing attempt with about a minute to play to make the score 4-3, but the Kings shut the door in the last minute.  It was a well played, clean game.  Even the officiating wasn’t as questionable as usual.  Solid effort by everyone on the ice.  Next Kings game is against the (young?) Guns on Friday night.  Bring beer.
Good luck in the tournament.