…by Harry Ballsanoue
Lovieville Flyers: Lovie, Soupy, Chevy, Razor, Jingles, Youngblood and Doc
Tidy Whities Husky Eyes: Spinner, Rocky, Hurricane, Sparky, Killer and Kael
Yellow Killer Canaries: Stevo, Snowpants, Shamus, Yuri, Bulldog and Hollywood
Lovieville 4 Canaries 2
Lovieville 1 Whities 0
Canaries 5 Whites 4
Canaries 4 Lovieville 3
Lovieville 5 Whities 2
Whities 6 Canaries 3
Another mini tournament at the Kapusta Kow Palace last night, it is the third one this year and a fun time was had by all. “Every reporter can write what they want or think, but I tell you, tonight was a special night, the hockey was fun and fast, the guys all pretty much stuck around after on stage and then 14 of us went back to Purples”, indicated Ray MacDonnell.
With mini tournaments, three stars are named after the game, the three star selection went as follows, 3rd star Dave Hann, 2nd star Snowpants Ferranti and the First Star, Ray MacDonnell. (Razor also brought some rye on his beer night classy move, by a classy guy)
The Tomcats signed Kael Critchlow, back in 1999 to a 25 year deal at 100 million dollars, it did not quite work out for them (Rick Dipeatro esk…..and the Islanders), Critchlow has been playing in the WCBHL for a Double A affiliate of the Tomcats in Dauphin Manitoba, playing for the Dauphin Kozaks. The young lad made the 9 hours bus ride to Winnipeg last night and then flew to Windsor just in time for the morning skate, he played for the Tidy Wihities and held his own. The call up came after Mike ‘The Falcon’ Menzel was suffering with flu like symptoms, Zippy Renaud is out for the rest of the season with a hand injury and the Danish was on a road trip in California with a Tomcat Affiliate. Critchlow got the call up, played well, had some beers on stage and then went back to Purples and bought some beer for some of the lads. “I went to high school with Kael, who needs face book, when you have the Tomcats” State a jubilant Jingles Kuprowski.
As for the hockey, the action was fast and furious, with the Lovieville Flyers who are now winners of three mini tournaments, “I don’t know how that works, I guess the teams I pick, seem to work out” Lovie Edgar had said. The Lovieville Flyers who are now being known for some of their antics, pulled a fast one on the Killer Canaries, by not giving them time to set up after a goal, and ran the play, poor officiating by the Greek Ref did not catch the incident in time, but when they tried it for a second sneaky time, the Greek Ref caught them with their pants down.
Purples now have a juke box and ACDC ‘Have A Drink On Me’ could be heard, in Snowpants honour and speaking of Snowpants, Snowpants talked about a few more shows that he had cried at, in the MASH show, when the imaginary John Tuttle died, In a Cheers episode when Sam Malone sold his Corvette to Lilith and had to drive a Volare and the one that gets Snowpants the most, even to this day it chokes him up, whenever a new winner is declared on American Idol. “I just ball my eyes out, in happiness for the winner, I don’t know why that is”. Snowpants indicated, then waved to the crowd good bye, then walked into the Purples Kitchen area by mistake, only to come out, with a few Reuben’s a Meatball sub and a Caesar Salad.
It was a fun mood last night and for a few hours the boys slipped away from the everyday grind of working, caring for the kids, grocery shopping or driving the kids to hockey and just melted away into Tomcat land.
And hey, when you are making the meatball sub, on your forehead, guess who will have his Harry Ballsonue.
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