Fans certainly couldn’t complain when they heard there would be another “Mini Tournament” and by all accounts the stat sheet showed three teams in the mix – Skippy’s Yellow Bumble Bees, Falcon’s Fireflies, and Razor’s Raptors (Ok I admit the only team name I got right was Skippy’s Yellow Bumble Bees, but if I had my way these are what I would have named the other teams – We’ll just have to see what the other regular bloggers/reporters take on team names are). This was also the first time the goalies were selected as Captains and had their say in team members. The players especially liked this as I overhead several mutter, “Good thing because they (Goalies) are always the first to complain about the teams”.
The teams lined up as follows: Skippy’s Yellow Bees {Yellow jersey of course}(Chevy/Hollywood/Snowpants/Jingles/Doc and Killer), Falcon’s Fireflies {Wearing White} (Sunny/Soupy/Sparky/Cribz and Yuri), and Razor’s Raptors {Donning Black} (Lovie/Stevo/Shamus/Rocky/and Hurricane). When it was all over – BLACK (Razor’s Raptors) were victorious going a perfect 4-0 with 7G.A, 12G.F, +5, 8Pts and a stingy 1.75G.A.A for Razor. Funny how that happened cause hasn’t Black gone 3 in a row with “Mini Tournanment wins?. Is it the colour or the sheer brilliance of Razor’s picks? I had to ask Stevo, who unconfirmed sources indicate has luckily been drafted to the Black team(s) for the past three tournaments. “Hey baby coming back from Mexico and being cleared of that paternity nonsense, as my Lawyer pointed out to the so called complainants – Once you go Black….” (Apparetnly there was another guy involved afterall).
And when I say there was a mini tournament I think the only team NOT showing up was poor Skippy’s who for an unconfirmed first in Tomcat history went a dismal 0-4 with 16G.A, 6G.F, -10, 0Pts and 4.00G.A.A for Skippy. I bumped into Skippy as he was fleeing the area and he commented, “It was a tough night, I’ve certainly had better and I think as a team we struggled with offence – I mean just look at the stats, and our bench looked a little confused with line changes and positioning”. “I’m just happy I’ll only likely get this one oportunity to draft as a captain – I had a great bunch of guys, but critics will question how we came up soooo short”. Looking at the action from high above in the media room it really was tough to pinpoint what caused the team to implode.
Finally there were the Fireflies who went 2-2 with 13G.A, 14G.F, +1 and 3.25G.A.A for Falcon. When the dust finally settled and the guys had their fill of Red something or other swill I thought I saw Killer trying to console Skippy on the nights events and I swear I heard Skippy say “Killer – Yuri HANDZONMECAC”.
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