[GAME RECAP: L 4-5 vs LV Kings](https://beerleague - Beer League Bullies

BEER LEAGUE BULLIES GAME RECAP

Thursday C-League | AFC Rink 1 | March 26, 2026

LV Kings 5 – Bullies 4 (SO)

THE ONE WHERE WE DID IT THE HARD WAY

Let's just get this out of the way up front: we were missing Stef. We were missing Jon Sandgren. Both of our actual goalies were unavailable. Our backup was unavailable. Our backup's backup was unavailable. It was, by any reasonable measure, a logistical disaster of the highest order — and by 10 AM on game day, Shawn was still on the phone making calls like a general manager at the trade deadline except instead of acquiring a top-six forward he was just trying to find a human being who owned goalie pads and could drive to Henderson by 8 PM.

Enter Alan Singer. Backup backup backup backup backup goalie. A man who answered the call when nobody else would. A man who stood in that crease and faced down the LV Kings on approximately zero notice. We'll get to Alan's night in full. Just know that this recap begins and ends with gratitude for that man.

FIRST PERIOD — Down Goes the Ship

The Kings came out with a purpose and Corbin Hanus (#50) got things started at 8:34 off a Chris Annerino setup. Wortham made it 2-0 at 14:54 — Annerino and Hanus combining again — and suddenly the Bullies were staring at a two-goal hole with a backup backup backup backup backup goalie who found out he was starting sometime around lunch.

Credit where it's due: John Fiore (#18) — fresh off his maiden recap appearance last week and apparently hungry for more — answered at 18:47 with an unassisted goal to make it 2-1 heading into the first intermission. Fiore. Two weeks in a row. The man is a menace and we love him for it.

Hanus picked up a tripping penalty at the end of the period. We noted it. We did not convert it.

SECOND PERIOD — 4-1 and Counting, Then the Comeback Starts

The second period opened ugly. Hanus buried a power play goal at 6:11 — our hooking penalty on Sweeney (#14) coming back to haunt us — and Robicheau (#10) added another at 10:08 off a Wortham setup. Just like that, it was 4-1. Deficit of three. Shorthanded on talent. Running on fumes and team character.

And then something clicked.

Paul Przybylski (#26) — who apparently decided this was going to be his night — scored at 12:10 off an Adolfsson setup. 4-2. Less than a minute later at 13:05, Przybylski went right back to the well, this time off a Volchok (#44) setup. 4-3. Two goals in 55 seconds. The Bullies were suddenly, improbably, very much alive.

Adolfsson picked up a tripping penalty at 16:39. We killed it. The kill was earned.

THIRD PERIOD — Fiore Saves the Season (Briefly)

Scoreless through most of the third, tension ratcheting up with every shift. Then at 11:57, the Kings took an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty — Caleb McCann apparently had some thoughts that the referee did not appreciate — and the Bullies went to work.

John Fiore (#18), with Hart (#6) and Obradovitch (#11) on the setup, buried the power play goal at 11:57. Tied at four. Fiore with two goals on the night. Two weeks running. Somebody give this man a commemorative plaque for the locker room wall, right next to the recap itself.

Alan Singer, for his part, held the line. Down 4-1 and given no reason to believe this game was winnable, Alan stopped what he needed to stop when it mattered. The tie was a team effort. The tie was also largely on his back.

OVERTIME / SHOOTOUT — Ice Cold

Overtime solved nothing. Neither team scored. Clean sheets all around.

Then came the shootout.

Five Bullies skated to center ice. None of them scored. The Kings, apparently more comfortable with the format, won it and took the extra point. 5-4 final.

0-for-5 in the shootout. We don't need to name names. We all know who we are. We will work on this. Presumably.

ALAN SINGER — A MOMENT OF RECOGNITION

The shots column on the scoresheet is broken again (it's showing four shots per team for the entire game, which is obviously wrong and we've stopped being surprised by this), so we can't give Alan the proper numerical tribute he deserves. What we can say is this: he was called at 10 AM. He showed up. He faced a team that went up 4-1 and could have broken this game open further. He did not let them. The Bullies had the chance to tie this game because Alan Singer kept them in it long enough to do so. That matters. That counts.

Alan Singer: you are officially in the recap. You are, in fact, the headline of the recap. Grab a beer at Gold Mine, it's on us.

BY THE NUMBERS

1st2nd3rdOTTotalLV Kings2201 (SO)5Beer League Bullies12104

Bullies Scoring:

John Fiore (#18) — 2G, 0A (1 ES, 1 PP)

Paul Przybylski (#26) — 2G, 0A

Kellen Hart (#6) — 0G, 1A

Robert Obradovitch (#11) — 0G, 1A

Andreas Adolfsson (#20) — 0G, 1A

Shawn Volchok (#44) — 0G, 1A

Power Plays: 1-for-2 each side

Penalties:

Sweeney (#14) — Hooking (2nd period, led to Kings PP goal)

Adolfsson (#20) — Tripping (2nd period, killed)

Kings: Hanus (#50) Tripping (1st), McCann Unsportsmanlike (3rd, led to Bullies PP goal)

In Net:

Alan Singer — whatever he faced, he faced it with no warm-up, no notice, and his full chest

UP NEXT

Season's winding down and the standings are tight in the middle. The Bullies remain comfortably parked at the top, but the Kings just got a confidence boost they didn't need. We'll see them again in the playoffs unless we have something to say about the bracket draw. Either way — next game, normal goalies, full roster, no 10 AM emergency calls. Allegedly.

See you at the rink. Beers at Gold Mine.

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