Eddy Skazyk
Posted by jtwcornell91
Eddy Skazyk
Posted by: jtwcornell91 (---.utb.edu)
Date: February 11, 2002 12:15AM
So, I finally made it up to Corpus Christi to see an Icerays game, this afternoon against the El Paso Buzzards. The Icerays play in the Central Hockey League, which was known last year as the Western Professional Hockey League.
I never made it to a game last year when Geoff Bumstead '94 and Eddy Skazyk '96 were playing in Corpus. I had checked this year's roster and seen neither player listed, but who should be between the pipes for the Rays but Eddy himself. Given that he had the best stats of the goalies, including a 5-2-1 record on the worst team in the league (the other goalies were 3-11-3 and 0-6-3) I suspect they struggled without him for the first part of the season and then got him back.
Corpus got out to a 2-0 lead early in the second, but then their inability to stay out of the box caught up with them, as El Paso netted two PPGs in succession. (Eddy didn't look too sharp on either of them, truth be told, although he did manage some nice glove saves throughout the game.) The Icerays managed to take the lead late in the third, but El Paso tied in up in the closing minutes, and the game went to overtime.
The Icerays' Matt Sharuga took a colossally stupid instigation penalty, cheap-shotting El Paso goalie Jeff Levy during the pre-OT intermission, and was lucky to escape with 2+5+10 with the fighting major offset by a major on Levy, although his five teammates did most of the retaliating. (Apparently they like to fight in the C, presumably to fulfill the fans' impression of what a hockey game should be; there was a fight in the opening minutes of the game which seemed to be provoked by nothing whatsoever.) The Rays managed to kill off the resulting (4-on-3 since it was a dopey professional overtime) El Paso power play, and the game ended in a tie, with Eddy stopping 27 of 30 shots and his opponent 29 of 32.
But of course what would a piped-in-rap-music shouting-announcer pro hockey extravaganza be without a shoot out? This format was a little strange, with only three shooters a side. Eddy deflected the first shot wide. The first Icerays shooter fired wide of the net. Eddy saved the next shot, and Layne Roland scored for the Rays. El Paso needed to score on their last shot to prolong the shootout, and from the other end of the rink it sure looked like the shot went into the net and out, but the ref signalled no goal (must have hit the post) and the Icerays were 4-3 winners.
Eddy's stats after this game (assuming the shootout doesn't count towards anything but record):
6-2-1
25 GA
.913 Sv%
2.91 GAA
1 shutout
I never made it to a game last year when Geoff Bumstead '94 and Eddy Skazyk '96 were playing in Corpus. I had checked this year's roster and seen neither player listed, but who should be between the pipes for the Rays but Eddy himself. Given that he had the best stats of the goalies, including a 5-2-1 record on the worst team in the league (the other goalies were 3-11-3 and 0-6-3) I suspect they struggled without him for the first part of the season and then got him back.
Corpus got out to a 2-0 lead early in the second, but then their inability to stay out of the box caught up with them, as El Paso netted two PPGs in succession. (Eddy didn't look too sharp on either of them, truth be told, although he did manage some nice glove saves throughout the game.) The Icerays managed to take the lead late in the third, but El Paso tied in up in the closing minutes, and the game went to overtime.
The Icerays' Matt Sharuga took a colossally stupid instigation penalty, cheap-shotting El Paso goalie Jeff Levy during the pre-OT intermission, and was lucky to escape with 2+5+10 with the fighting major offset by a major on Levy, although his five teammates did most of the retaliating. (Apparently they like to fight in the C, presumably to fulfill the fans' impression of what a hockey game should be; there was a fight in the opening minutes of the game which seemed to be provoked by nothing whatsoever.) The Rays managed to kill off the resulting (4-on-3 since it was a dopey professional overtime) El Paso power play, and the game ended in a tie, with Eddy stopping 27 of 30 shots and his opponent 29 of 32.
But of course what would a piped-in-rap-music shouting-announcer pro hockey extravaganza be without a shoot out? This format was a little strange, with only three shooters a side. Eddy deflected the first shot wide. The first Icerays shooter fired wide of the net. Eddy saved the next shot, and Layne Roland scored for the Rays. El Paso needed to score on their last shot to prolong the shootout, and from the other end of the rink it sure looked like the shot went into the net and out, but the ref signalled no goal (must have hit the post) and the Icerays were 4-3 winners.
Eddy's stats after this game (assuming the shootout doesn't count towards anything but record):
6-2-1
25 GA
.913 Sv%
2.91 GAA
1 shutout
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