Mad Max tears up Birmingham adult league pick-up game

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What idiot signed in as Maxim Afinogenov? lol

"He was very professional, sharing the puck and everything," Cheeseman said. "Then I told him we have a little better level of competition on Thursday nights with BASH (Birmingham Area Select Hockey). These are guys who played college or minor league, a few of the old Birmingham Bulls.

"As a general rule, we don't allow drop-ins. We made an exception."

The biggest problem Thursday turned out to be which team Afinogenov played with. He started out on the Black team and within 10 minutes the score was 7-2, with Afinogenov scoring all seven goals -- "the quickest paced 10 minutes we've ever played," Cheeseman said.

At that point he was "traded" to the White team, which wound up winning, 16-13.

"Of the 29 goals, Maxim scored 17, including the last three after it was tied, 13-13," Cheeseman said. "And he didn't come off the ice in either the second or third periods. He told us he was looking for conditioning. And besides, who was going to tell him to come off?"

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[UTVolCountry]

Where's the goaltending???

 

[DChero]

It doesn't sound like he did any backchecking. I wonder who was involved in the deal sending him to the white team...

 

[jstewismybastardson]

I cant even imagine what would happen if an nhl player tried that in a canadian city. Actually I can

The beer league guy who blames the coaching politics in peewee hockey for costing him his nhl dream would be trying to knock the crap outta the nhler

 

[smo5039]

yeah, i could see a wicked slash to the wrist

 

[buffhockey]

Maybe nobody could catch him, he is pretty fast & sneaky out there.

 

[MM213]

I wish instead of having fun on ice he substituted freaking Makarova
Maybe Russia would have advanced

 

[forty_three]

Where's the goaltending???

They didn't mention it in the story, but Marty Turco was also there.