We Got Ourselves a Goodfella

Come at Us is pleased to announce the addition of Goodfella146 once again. The veteran defencemen, known for his amazing slap shot and one timer, was removed from the club due to personal issues. Due to the low number of quality defencemen Come at Us has this year, Goodfella146 has been asked to change his ways and to reunite with us.

In addition, diesel_3 had a decent tryout but was not able to make the team. The potential he has as a defencemen can be seen, but we are no longer in a process of rebuilding. We hope he finds another team that can grow with him, and we wish him the best of luck in the future.

Make that Three!

Three new submissions to this year's best has been made. xChris76 makes a double hit with his hip check and retrieves the puck for the team! What's with all the double-dions lately? Let's see something different!

WiLBoY submits his penalty shot goal for year's best. There was no significance to this goal as the score was already 9-1 but I thought it was kinda pretty.

Frankchise_605 makes an unbelievable penalty shot save to keep the team in the lead. If this goal had gone in, the game would probably have gone into overtime. With pretty much one goaltender on the team, there isn't much players who can steal "Best Save of the Year" from Frankchise_605.

Capital Connection Official Name Change

So it's been decided. Capital Connection will undergo a name change due to the team member's votes. The club name will now be called "Come at Us" due to a 14 point vote win. The team will officially be made one day prior to October 2011. The temporary club we currently have will be deleted as it was a place for the club to obtain their cards together. With most of the core members having bought NHL12, our team is once again ready for another long year.

Good luck to CDC, CDA, The NHL 12 Year Olds, and all other Canuck forum based teams. Hope you all have a successful year and we will see you on the ice.

Capital Connection (cC) Plays Rival Canucks Dot Com (CDC)

Finally, the first game between our two teams begin. It was a fun game, even though we ended up losing once Krazzx disconnected from the game. Despite having only rookie cards, I thought our team matched up decently against them although their players skated a lot faster. I had to hustle just to keep up with a lot of them and with an endurance of 60, that's not really a good move. I ended up recording all the goals for those of you who are interested in what happened. I'm sorry I couldn't compile all the clips together, it would take too long to upload onto Youtube rather than just straight onto the blog. Capital Connection is the home team (blue jerseys) and Canucks Dot Com is the away team (white jerseys). 

cC vs CDC

First Period:

We take the lead at start with a cross crease goal which barely made it in.

CDC ties it with a turnover right in front of the net! Game tied 1-1

Our teammate xChris76 with an amazing snipe short side. What a shot!

WiLBoY takes a shot from the right point, and xChris76 tips it in! cC leads 3-1 

From here, we enter the 2nd period and have a 3-1 lead. Everything's looking good and we told ourselves not to back down because CDC likes to come back from behind every time. 

Second Period:

No goals were scored in the second period, but Krazzx disconnected from the game and it went downhill here. 

Third Period:

CDC gets a breakaway, very unfortunate bounce to the middle of the ice. Score becomes 3-2 for cC

CDC does what they do best, cross crease and it connects! Jokes aside, I'm pretty sure Krazzx would have stopped that as the AI was just standing there not doing anything. The game becomes tied, 3-3 in the third.

Number 8 shows why he's great. Takes a snipe short side on our goalie top shelf. What I wonder is why the AI defenceman wasn't covering his side but was in the slot instead, but very nice goal. CDC leads 4-3.

40 seconds left in the third, cC gets a powerplay and xChris76 receives the pass right in the slot and buries it. Game tied 4-4 and xChris76 completes the hat-trick.

CDC scores with 30 or so seconds left and the AI defencemen is left standing there watching. A very timely goal for CDC, but they made a good push back. CDC leads 5-4 in the third with 20 seconds left and eventually wins the game. 

                                      

Despite losing, it was a fun game to be apart of. I think we hit like 4-5 posts in the 2nd period though, and I knew those were going to come back and haunt us. We even missed the penalty shot, but Frankchise_605 bailed us out on their penalty shot earlier. Overall, a good game and we're looking forward to more once we get out of our rookie cards. Good job CDC!

Club First Goals

As promised, I will be uploading all the club member's first goals. The goals weren't easy to get as our player's attributes were quite low. We're still working on our cards, but here are some that have been sent to me so thus far. 

booyah4-

He scores while falling to his feet. There is similarity between this and Crosby's goal, but I'm going to have to say number 87's goal was much nicer.

QQ_Plz

This is me scoring my first goal in the EASHL of NHL12. It was a pass by frankchise_605 and I one timed it with my 60 rating slapper. I'm surprised it went in with how fast the goalie's lateral movement is in NHL 12. Not the most prettiest of goals, but it's good to get the first one over with. 

xChris76

Chris scores his first goal and it's a beauty. Short side top shelf on CDC. His first goal gave us a 2-1 lead.

Integra250

Integra250 scores his first goal from a pass by Krazzx. Nice job getting open Philly! 

Tokun-

Tokun- receives a nice feed from booyah4- and makes an unpredictable backhander. A pretty nice goal to start off the EASHL year.

Kanucks25

Kanucks25 forces a snipe through 3 defenders. They can't stop him! They can't stop him! I'm guessing the goalie was screened judging by the wall of players and going on the early butterfly stance.

ThaManbeast

Markus gets his first goal in his first club game! A slow wrister but just enough to beat a peaking goalie coming across. Goal was assisted by Tokun- and Markus pots 5 points in his first ever NHL12 club game. Congrats!

Capital Connection Making a Return?

It appears that Capital Connection may make a return this season depending on the number of players returning. Rumors are that some of the members have already purchased the game but certain core members of the team are still deciding.

Also, it appears that Capital Connection is undergoing a name change this season due to the dislike of the previous name. Capital Connection will now be renamed as "Come at Us" but the abbreviation of the club's name has not yet been decided.

Hopefully the team can reunite and once again have a successful season. Good luck to all the other new teams on Canucks.com. It's always a treat to play any of you guys.