Want to keep up with the Blues website updates in real-time? Check out our mobile application!
The Philadelphia Blues Hockey Club organizes invite only, competitive pick-up style hockey year round at the
PowerPlay Rink in Exton, PA. The Philadelphia Blues was started by some men's league players growing
older tired of the late games and aggressive style. These players still wanted to play a
competitive game, but without all the extra junk that comes from men's leagues, thus they started their own weekly
game.
This past Thursday’s game was a real nail biter. First we had 13 skaters on each bench for the first time in a long time which was awesome. The dark team went down 4 to 1 to start and never led the game until the very end. Pat and Owen combined for 6 goals to lead the dark team to a last second victory. There was some contraversy as dark white did have a couple of goals taken off the board.
Dark White scored thier 4th goal but somehow on the scoreboard their score magically jumped from 3 to 5. Carl, the dark team goalie, was on top of it and had it immediately corrected. Carl even double checked Live Barn after the game to be doubly sure. Sometime later the white team’s player, Ron Watson, viciously tripped Pat McDevitt behind the dark team goal and then, while yelling stay down bitch if you know what’s good for ya, stepped over Pat to grab the puck and pass it out for a goal. The dark team immediately disqualified the goal.
This mishap must have stirred feelings in Pat as he went on to score 4 goals including the game winner. The Hibshman’s with Maria Braca line took to the ice with 4:28 time remaining and a tie game. With less than a minute remaining, Dave, yep he was still on the ice – fucking hypocrit, took a pass from Owne and shot down the left wing like a rocket into the white teams’s end, pulled up daftly, jumped over white team player Paul Lutz (surprised by Hibshman’s sudden and rare spryness) who sprawled to the ice, and fired a pass to the front of the net where Pat McDevitt was waiting to pop in the winning goal with 20 seconds left.
You could hear Pat yelling How you like me now Ron, Paul Lutz shaking his head and saying I didn’t think the older Hibshman had that in him, and the line behind the Hibshman’s and Maria of Comuso, Cairns, and Saitta yelling change you motherf*ckers – 5 minutes is way too long of shift. They weren’t wrong and Dave promises to walk the talk going forward. The game will go on the list of Blues classics.
In other news, Blues players Hibshman, Saitta, Bishop jr., and Ferry participated in the East White Community Day Car Show that Hibshman organized for his car club. A new album 2024-East-Whiteland-Car-Show has been added to the gallery.