Windsor Tomcats

(Harry Palm Press):

WOW, hope you were able to scalp a ticket to this tourney, because it was a classic combination of steller goals and even stingier goaltending. Speaking of goaltending, the four goalies combined sported a very low 3.83 G.A.A – no wonder scores were so low this year, and generally they are with the top two duo of the Falcon and Razor standing tall in net.

Did you hear the `Play the ball“ yelled out a few times – It did get a bit “Shovey`(No not that Shovey) out there a few times – no wonder play was very intense. Harry BALLSONUE may have reported on the scores and Rocky`s Wings winning it all this year, but there is always more to a story. How about three first timers to drink from the coveted cup….Victor `Snowpants“ FERRANTI, Matty `The Matador`YOUSSEF, and Shane `Skippy`RENAUD. Three very junior players in the Tomcat organization.

I caught up with the Falcon later and was asking him how he thought this year went – I mean why not, the guys got a ring for every finger. It was like looking into the sun staring at those hands. Anyway falcon summed it up nicely `back in the day we didn`t have the superstars we do today – I mean it used to be who ever got Chevy was a lock to go to the championship game. Now we`ve really upped the game and gotten alot of young stars – look at the Crow, or Shamus – I mean we`re loaded with talent now, and play has gotten way better – even the shots and set ups are spot on“. The Falcon went on and congratulated the winning Rocky`s Wings, and spoke of Skippy taking this years MVP. “I watched him in warmups, and he just seemed to be stopping everything – I was trying to convince everyone them that he was here to play – crazy considering the guys will tell you he`s weak in giving up the five hole“. Classy guy that Falcon, who went 1-2-0 with a stingy 3.3 G.A.A.

Prior to the championship game the Kings and Wings faced off in a game that didn`t really matter – they already both knew they would meet for the cup. That game ended fittingly enough in a 7-7 tie. When the marbles were on the line, the Kings came out supreme behing steller shut out goaltending and the Matador doing a nice job late in the game by playing the ball and killing the clock. It was like watching a cat play with a ball of yarn. Matty was later overheard saying, “I just kept waiting to be planted into the wall`.

Congrats to all teams, who with the exception of the Wings will be reshullfled next year in an other quest to drink from the cup. Since I am on a roll with predictions – being almost spot on with the tourney results – AND the sighting of KOWALCZYKOWSKI taking part as a ref (Hey I did say he`d be on the game floor – But even I didn`t expect that), I think Falcon is right – talent is going up, and I don`t think we`ll ever see another dynasty like team Belarus (2005-2007 Champs). That being said, I`ll wait to see how the 3 new captains picks pan out before I try to predict another tourney result.

Predictions aside, who really who would have predicted Skippy palying for not 1, but 2 shut outs (Quite possibly a Tomcat Tourney record). When I asked him about it, he`d start to say something, but break down. Earlier in the day he was babling somthing about taking a big dump prior to the first game, whatever works I guess. Rumour has it he hasn`t let go of the cup yet, and keeps talking to it (Crist another Lord of the ring nut). We`re off for a week, the outdoor tourney is around the corner, and the Danish is in, despite a hard tourny. Danish was quite ok with the events – “I was worried about playing well – and overall I thought I did ok for my 1st Tomcat tourney – The guys were great in supporting me, and I look forward to continuing to work on my form and break into the top spot real soon“. Well the Danish and the rest of the boys will be able to display all their skills on the BIG rink – Tickets have already sold out for the outdoor classic – Just another sign of how many stars the Tomcats do have playing for them.

O, By the way – I did join in on the celebrations at Purples, but unfortunately none of the chicks wanted to put their HANDZONMECAC.

Yurri.