November 20th - Imperial College London
After a convincing win against Sheffield, the Men’s blues ventured into London looking to capitalise on their momentum. Despite the recurring issue of illness and injury the team proved ready for the match.
Imperial opened the first period scoring on an unassisted breakaway. This was quickly answered by two goals (courtesy of Cambridge’s #88 Marty Limbäck-Stokin, assisted by #57 Evgeny Gorgachov and #29 Samu “Shamzy” Marosi). The Cambridge Blues extended their lead when charming and intellectual forward #47 Aiden Crawford-Tamasauskas (his words) buried a point shot from defenceman #34 Jonathan Parker. League’s all-time fastest skater in a straight line #19 Kumaran Nathan, assisted by #88 Limbäck-Stokin, extended the scoreline to 4-1. Hard forechecking and “sufficient” backchecking (#88) accelerated our resolve, having now solved the conundrum of Imperial breakaways.
At the start of period 2, #97 Ivan Grega decided to do what Ivan does best: skate, pass, grab an assist, when #29 Shamzy became wide open for a near-side shot: 5-1 for the Blues. Goal number 6 for Cambridge was scored by rising team attorney #47 Crawford-Tamasauskas (our words) and facilitated by an unusually selfless Limbäck-Stokin. This was aptly followed by a beautiful tape to tape pass from Goncharov after the restart to set up Marosi for goal 7. The imperial forwards could not find a way through the complex manifolds of the Cambridge defence led by Evgeny Gorgachov. A necessity, as Jonathan Parker decided to take a lone vacation to the sin bin.
Now deep into period 3 and not to be left off the gamesheet, #53 Jonathan “Konsey” König hit up #18 Tomos Griffiths in the corner for a cross-ice pass, resulting in a sensationalist finish from the eager long-hair, right-wing #68 Ryan Tan. The original long-hair, right-wing, #68 Jagr himself would be proud. Moments later, Ryan linked up once again with Konsey, and a reappearing Kumaran, to grab goal number 9 for the Blues with an unknown length of time left to play. Marty, yes #88 again, decided on pursuing an unassisted breakaway to complete his Hat-Trick and to send the Cambridge score into double figures. With the final whistle blown, the height of the score seemed only impeded by a running clock. Cambridge Men’s Blues 10, Imperial College London 1.
