DALIAN WINS TOURNAMENT!!!
September 17, 2007
Ripped straight from the headlines …. Dalian Ice Dragons headed to Beijing to play in the 2007 Expat Cup and came away as champions winning the tournament with a perfect 4-0 record. We headed into the weekend hoping to not be outplayed too badly but even the most optimistic of us wouldn’t have predicted this outcome.
The scores were
Dalian Ice Dragons 2 - Mongolia 0
Dalian Ice Dragons 3 - Beijing Dragons 1
Dalian Ice Dragons 1 - Ice Hogs 0
Dalian Ice Dragons 3 - Hot Wings 2 (shootout winner)
Highlights
Donny Colangelo’s first shutout as an Ice Dragon
Donny Colangelo’s SECOND shutout as an Ice Dragon
Simon Ng scoring his first goal as an Ice Dragon
Singing “Alouette, Gentille Alouette ” to the French Canadian goalie Rene after he made a stop with his head (Et la tête, et la tête …oooooh…. )
Lamb Khebabs, Sweet Bread and Beer sitting on infant sized plastic stools at the street vendors across from the rink until 2 AM Friday night.
Watching Brent Foster skate in to congratulate our goalie on his second shutout but instead smashing his chin on Donny’s cage and then needing to go for 3 stitches.
And finally …. WINNING THE TOURNAMENT!!!!
The only thing I won’t miss about the weekend is the Beijing gridlock traffic. The 5th ring road was a parking lot. Yeah those Olympics ought to run smooooooth as silk.
Will post photos when I get some.
Proud to be an Ice Dragon!
congrats!!! that’s awesome to hear….
it’s also good to see that the dragons have started to give their goaltender “Mr. Capri Pants” a little help back there on defense.
can’t wait to see some pics….
Comment by doug — September 19, 2007 @ 6:43 am