Brick Oven lights up Talk for nine goals

Mayme Grant got an assist last week

The Brick Oven front office made two unprecedented moves at the draft this year. First of all, they spearheaded the ambiguously gay duo rule allowing friends to remain on the same team, i.e. Dan Loftus and Matt Gutter. Not that there’s anything wrong with being ambiguous.
Second, the Brick Oven used a pre-draft pick to take Katie Kremmerer. That’s right, at the risk of sounding sexist, they used their pick on a woman. (“What’s wrong with being sexy?”) But not just any woman. Fact is, Kremmerer played Division I women’s hockey at St. Cloud State in Minnesota. Suffice it to say, she’s better than just about any man out there, with a handful of exceptions, of course.
Both moves were truly unprecedented and extremely progressive. In fact, it appears the work of the Brick Oven front office at the draft was near perfect, so far, as they won their second town league game of the year, crushing the Talk of the Town 9-2.
Brick goalie Brad Bodell was especially looking forward to the showdown. After he played in-net for the Talk last season, they opted not to protect him in the draft this year.
Again, fans lined the glass and filled the bleachers for another night of town league. Maybe it’s the glass, or possibly the roof. Maybe it’s the lack of snow, leaving the locals restless and searching for some sort of outlet. Whatever the reason, it’s good to see.
The Brick opened up the scoring early and keep it going for all three periods. After Bodell stopped a shot from Willy Coburn, the Brick Oven busted out of their zone, with Kristopher Bruun leading the way. Steve Banks found him all alone up-ice and hit him mid-stride with a pass and Bruun slipped it by Talk goalie Reed Schaub for a 1-0 lead.
The Brick kept the pressure on high, holding the puck in the Talk’s zone for long stretches of time. Mark Cram found Guy Ciulla open for a second Brick goal and two minutes later, Ciulla scored again for a 3-0 Brick lead.
The Talk finally responded in the waning moments of the first period when Coburn won a face-off in the Brick zone, sliding the puck to Mark Goldberg on the boards. Goldberg held the puck and slipped it back to Coburn in the high slot and Coburn stuffed the puck top-shelf with a quick wrist shot.
The Brick then opened up a big ol’ can of whup on the Talk in the second period. Kremmerer started it off in the first minute, scoring off a pass from Bruun. Three minutes later, the Brick break-out had Banks and Bruun skating onto the Talk net for a 2-on-1 that went something like this: Banks to Bruun. Bruun back to Banks. Banks back to Bruun. Bruun holds, finds Banks, and Banks scores. Or something like that.
At any rate, the bludgeoning continued as the Brick proceeded to score despite playing two men down, when Ben Preston pushed the puck up the boards to Banks and Banks beat Schaub with a backhand for a 7-1 Brick lead.
The beat-down was so bad that prior to the start of the third period, an official, sworn to anonymity, suggested the scorekeepers stop putting Brick goals on the scoreboard. When asked why, he responded, “To be polite.”
Regardless of the score, the Talk kept hustling scrambling to hold off the Brick attack and barreling up-ice to create scoring chances. The Bramwell brothers, Rob and Kevin, spearheaded the effort and it paid off in the fourth minute of the third period. Kevin put his head down and skated the puck straight up the ice with brother Rob following right behind him. Kevin drew three Brick players and the puck squirted loose but Rob scooped it up and blasted it past Bodell for the Talk’s second goal of the game.
The Brick finished it off with Gutter scoring off a rebound with 49 seconds left and Banks completing the hat trick with a solo effort in the final 20 seconds for the finishing touches on the 9-2 beat-down.