Windsor Tomcats

by Heywood Jewblowmee

Last week, a piece of paper flew out of Stevo’s black binder, in the parking lot of the Kapusta Kow Palace and got caught up right up against my car tire, imagine that! Well, I was curious, cuz it was a 14 page document and interestingly enough contained a 4 prong plan in regards to ‘Specialty’ games in a mini tournament format, to be held on the the night of the Tomcat Christmas Party, (December 20) for those wondering on what day that would be.  You recall the famous words of Stevo, on the very last night that ‘Specialty’ games were ever played,  “This is suppose to be for fun, and I’m not Flipping having any”. Well, it seems he may be softening a bit on the topic and has come up with a 4 team, Tuesday night, mini tournament format.  Games would be two 3 minute periods and he has established the teams, using everyone’s favourite NHL team as their team for the tournament and he indicated in his conclusion that he would only push it forward if each player put in $50 as a prize for the night, I will explain that at the end of the article on how he sees that working.

He combined Penguins, Flyers, Canucks and Rangers on one team, to make sure they had enough to field a team.

Here is how the teams are set up:

Rangers/Flyers/Penguins/Canucks: Wearing Yellow
Hollywood (goalie) Lovie, Youngblood and Doc

Montreal Canadians: Wearing White
Bearcat (goalie) Razor (goalie) The Rake, Junior, Yuri, Spinner and Snowpants

Detroit Redwings: Wearing Red
Falcon (goalie) Skippy (goalie), Sparky, Rocky, Bulldog, Jingles, Killer

Toronto Maple Leafs: Wearing Black
Hurricane (goalie), Cribz, Zschabba, Chevy, Stevo, Sunny, Shamus, Soupy, Crow and May Day.

So, how it would work, is the two top teams would play a 4 minute game at the end of the tournament, each team would play each other twice as they do on normal Tuesday nights. The games would be shorter of course, due to four teams being in the mini tournament and the final game would be two, 2 minute periods  (you have to get the game in, (and the whole tournament in) so that the Christmas Party can begin) and the final game would be played, for all the marbles.  Let’s say, Toronto won, then the 10 of them would split $900 dollars.BUT WAIT….there is more, The Tomcat kitty, which is busting at the seams this year, would match the prize money so the Maple Leaf team would then split $1,800 dollars.

But let’s say Rangers/Flyers/Penguins/Canucks team won, they would split $1,200 (players money and $1,200 (tomcat money)  that equals $2,400. That is $600 bucks each…something to play for…right?

The money would have to be collected in advance of course, Stevo had written in his recommendation.

Any way, it is just an idea right now, but this reporter, wanted to be the first to report it.  Also interestingly enough, Stevo felt that Para Medic’s and the Police should be present at the games, on a ‘just in case basis’, he indicated in his concluding remarks, “In the end, with what I know about specialty games and how they were played in the past and with each player playing for their own team in a mini tournament format, were they could win up to $600 each, a blood bath could occur and it would be good to have ambulance standing by”.

After the tournament, once all the dust settles and the Ambulance takes the broken and injured to hospital….Heywood Jewblowmee?