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| Sabato showing off the guns during last year's Sea Isle trip. |
Amidst the cloud of high racial tensions in town, the Faithful return to the Atco Rink to bring peace, love, and hockey back to the local community.
On the Fourth of July, A Black Lives Matter Protest was held in town to promote equality for people of color and to spark conversations about police brutality from the George Floyd murder. The local townspeople non too pleased to listen to any racial equality demonstrations, decided to organized a counter Patriot March held at the Atco Rink. One of the fanatical nationalist draped in patriotic paraphernalia addressed the crowd of enraged suburbanites.
"It's the Fourth of July and these damn minorities want to take our day away to promote equality. Well guess what if you don't like this country, get the fuuuuck out. My family has lived in this town since Chester A. Arthur was in office, and there is no ounce of racism here. This is America land of the free. Don't be taking any of our jobs!"
Instead of welcoming the Black Lives Matter Protests, social media sparked hatred towards the group as a previous protest was cancelled due to one of the organizers receiving death threats and being harassed at her place of work. It has been one side fighting against the other which only showed the ugly prejudiced seeds still planted in town.
A rather upset civil rights leader Quad "F Kennedy" Skates was disturb how the town treated the Black Lives Matter Movement, "Let these Black Lives Matter people have their marches, I don't see what the problem is here. There is a civil unrest in our country and these marches shine a light on the continuous racial problems. All I heard on social media was what about the looting and rioting? What is left in this town to riot and loot? The Waterford Township Council has already looted the townspeople over the pass 15 years by letting the majority of businesses to leave. What remains is a Dollar Store and the Carpet Store in town. Are people going to break into Atco Carpet and steal boards of carpet samples. People in this town act like their lives are fine, so they don't care about the disfranchised people in society. Their solution was to say fuck you we're going to have our own protest during the same time, same place, and show people of color that we don't give a fuck about them."
The Faithful waiting since mid March when the Coronavirus Pandemic closed the luxurious Atco Rink, we're finally permitted to return with strict CDC guidelines. Each player will have to have a temperature check before allowed on the rink, each player has to keep social distancing on the benches, each player has to bring hand sanitizer and a copy of Joel Otto's Hockey Fundamentals. Which is basically a fan fiction copy of the 1986 film Youngblood but the main character stars Joel Otto not Rob Lowe as Dean Youngblood.
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In the desperation of finding goalies during the hot summer months, Speedy was called up again from the Albany Land Otters to get another shot in net. Fans were anxious to see how Speedy would respond from his poor outing last time, when he was pulled in the middle of the series for the extra attacker.
This time around Speedy was just as disinterested as his previous performance, by getting shelled in 5 games. He was immediately pulled for Sabato who brought his goalie equipment just in case Speedy was to be pulled. Speedy dejected took the pads off and called an Uber back to the Chinatown Bus Station.
After the debacle of the first series, Sabato suited up for a more competitive series verse Jason in net. The weltering humidity and the large rink size tired the Faithful, as players were leaving early. It went from 2 subs on each bench to a mere 3 vs 3 iron man finale.
Robo was traded to team Chief Editor and Scores A Lot by the G-Man unit who was compensated with a future 2021 fourth round draft pick. With the teams comprised of the Chief Editor, Robo, Scores A Lot, and Jason in net vs G-Man, AI, Eli, and Sabato as the keeper for the final game.
It was first announced that the final game would end at 5 goals, the wide open play of 3 vs 3 would make it a quick conclusion. But Sabato showed cat like reflexes positioning himself deep in his crease and using his over-sized leg pads to take up most of the net. Scores A Lot and The Chief Editor peppered Sabato who was on the top of his game.
Eli and AI counter with a run and gun style of play using the entire rink with their speed finding each other on odd man rushes. AI shielded the ball with his elusive cutting and turning skating abilities, commanded the rink.
Robo was in awe by the play by AI, "It was pure art watching AI play in the open space tonight. I felt like I was watching Baryshnikov at his peak during the 1970s male ballet circuit. With each stride, AI was masterful in his body movements and elegant with his balance. His skating was nothing short of phenomenal and controlled the ball while he dazzled everyone with his wheels."
With the score 2-1 in favor of team Scores A Lot, AI sent a breakout pass to a streaking Eli who was fired out of a cannon down the wing. The Chief Editor defended Eli by directing him to the outside, by Eli lowered his shoulder and powered his way to the net. Eli fighting off the Chief Editor was holding his stick with one handed and dragged the ball on his backhand to beat Jason five hole.
The game tied 2-2, the night winding down in the final minutes. The faithful gassed by exerting every bit of energy to finish the series. The previous announcement of finishing the game in 5 goals was reduced to only 3 goals.
Hunched over to catch another breath, sweat dripping down the remaining of the faithful whom bore the heat were soaked in perspiration. It was down to the final goal to determine the conqueror of endurance. The Chief Editor retrieved the ball out of Jason's net to reset for the final rush of the night. As the Chief Editor looked to begin his push he heard a loud roar from his goalie Jason. "I''m done guys! I'm going to shit my pants right now. I don't feel like dropping shorts on the beach volleyball court."
No victor was crowned, the faithful agreed to call it a draw for the night.
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