2010 Bostonfest is on, starting this Friday March 12 and running through to Sunday the 14th. Laubenstein’s schedule online is screwed up, the full schedule as he emailed me is online here. Please refer to this schedule from now on. (The webcal version is up to date too.)

This year’s schedule adds more teams and an extra semi-final game for a potential maximum of 5 games. Our three scheduled games are

• Friday 8:30pm @ Dedham vs. Phoenix
• Saturday 12:30pm @ Milton Academy vs. Mass ARNG
• Saturday 6:20pm @ Dedham vs. Olde Time Hockey

There are nine teams in our conference, and four in our division (we play each team in our division as above). If we finish in the top 2 in our division, we play Sunday morning in Milton Academy (either 10:20am or 11:30am), and the conference championship is at 1:50pm Sunday at Milton.

I’m looking into getting some quick shirts printed up this week that would be on the cheap. Expect to pay at least $65 for the whole weekend.

The Kings put together a solid effort in a 6-3 win over Digitas at UMass Boston on Wednesday night. Frank opened the scoring with a nice shot from the left point that snuck inside the post, and John scored minutes later to extend the lead to 2-0. After letting up two quick goals the Kings locked down on D and got more goals from Pete and John. Bermy blasted a slapper from the right side in, and after another Digitas score, Fran added the 6th goal in the 3rd.

The Kings bounced back from last week’s loss with a solid team effort resulting in a 5-3 win over Brown Club. Josh factored on 4 of the 5 goals and Bermy had a Gordie Howe hat trick in the win. Despite spotting the opposition a 2 goal lead less than a minute after the first faceoff, the Kings gathered the momentum and scored the next three goals en route to the victory. The first score was converted on a 5-on-3 power play, with everyone on the ice getting a touch before Josh buried the goal on a feed from Frank and Fran. John got the equalizer not long after, and Jeff scored a classic backhander high blocker-side after on a feed from Paul and Josh. Brown Club would tie it on the power play, but Bermy potted the gamewinner on a nice slapper from the left circle, and John padded the score minutes later.

The Kings defense once again fell in on itself, squandering a 3-1 lead late in the third to hand a win to a beatable Brown Club. Despite goals by Paul, John and Pete the defense was perpetually caught up ice, giving up too many odd-man rushes for the Kings to handle. The Kings get a chance for revenge when we face them again next week.

I didn’t manage to get the game sheet from last night so if anyone has details on the scoring, pass it along; otherwise I’m going from memory.

Final schedule is up on the scheduled page at right. Couple highlights:

Playoffs are slated to start week of March 28th and will proceed thru April

Playoff format is as follows:

Wildcard or Play-in game for bottom two teams in your division. Winner moves on to join rest of teams in division for double elimination playoffs. Loser is done.

Overtime is used in playoffs, 5 minute stop time, 5 on 5, sudden death. 5 man shootout is used if still tied, and then single elimination shootout if tied after initial shootout. Only in division final game is there a full overtime period of 17 minutes, similiar to our 3rd periods, with final two minutes stop time.

Also, no more games against the Pirates or Brown Club.

Looks like only 23 games this season; we have games in hand on everyone above us in the standings.

Also I’m trying to get a headcount to see if there’s any interest in Bostonfest this year, the weekend of March 12-14th. If we can get at least 10 plus a goalie I’ll sign us up. Please take a moment to comment here on whether you’d play.

After matching the Pirates step for step throughout the game the Kings’ poor defensive play finally caught up with them, giving up the GWG after some poor clearing attempts with just over a minute left in the game. The Kings had a solid couple periods and saw some great chances just miss the net, and despite the low score the offense had some good cycles going throughout the game. After giving up the first goal of the game the Kings evened the score in the 2nd when Bermy came up with the puck off the faceoff outside the Pirates’ zone, walked in the left wing and played a game of catch with Alan, who finally buried it from the right circle. The Pirates took the lead again, but Josh and John hooked up to tie the game up with about eight minutes remaining. However the Kings couldn’t hold on and after plenty of missed opportunities the Pirates finally cashed in with a minute left in the game, and would eventually add an empty-netter to seal the win.

Meet up at 11:00am Sunday.