Harry Palm Press
With the return of the prodigal son “Stevo” fans and players alike arrived early for what would turn into a mini tournament, which as expected started with controversay. The Turk was approached to be a Captain, quickly looked around and said, “No thanks”. Having seen how mini’s have ruined some players mojo I had a hard time blamin the guy – Remember Skippy going 0-4? All was figured out and in the grand scheme of things fans were treated to unusually good hockey a ll around. Several first occurred, like Skippy finally winning (*). That was later disputed by Hurrican e , part of the White Knights who also were determined to be tourny winners. The Falcon backstopped the White Knights posting 2 shutouts and ending with a record .5G.A.A. That’s right .5!, earning the veteran the 2nd star nod on the night. When the dust settled both the White Knights and Yellow Fluffs were tied, throwin Hurricane into a spin. “We didn’t get to play that last game with Black, I wanted to chase the plus minus – we could’ve done it”.
The other first on the night was a 0-0 tie between the veteran Falcon and the Skipster, several Tomcats were later heard exclaiming, “That’s never happened before, good defense, good goaltending and good hockey”. The game helped propel Skippy to his first ever mini tournament win with a 2.3G.A.A. Fan favourite Razor was left twisting in the wind with a team that on paper looked hard to beat. That team, the Black Attack featured dangerous players like the return of Stevo, Lovie, Jingles, May D ay, Hollywood and Cribz. In the end they went 0-3 and Razor posted a season high 5G.A.A. Afterwards Razor remarked, “When it counts the Razor is there”. As he was saying this he turned almost Matrix slow and showed off the collection of past stanley cup rings he’s already amassed. Cribz may have summed it up best, “We just weren’t clickin, Stevo was out there just coming off the injury, I’m still a little banged up and was tentaive, we could not make a pass to save our lives and the ball would bounce of some small object and land on the stick of our oppoment and they would score – A real twilight zone episode”.
Not an easy task to pick teams, on paper sure you look great, but can everyone gel and fire on all cylinders? In next years real tournament, the goalies pick, Skippy is already fretting, “Hey I have a real crap record with picking 0-4, but I think I’ll have a sweet team name!” . Sources indicate the Skipster is already reviewing each Tuesday nights highlights, consulting the ouija board, opening thousands of chinese fortune cookies and amassing loads of booze for bribing the other goalies – Time, picks and Vegas stats will eventually provide an outlook on whatever those teams picked odds will look like and wages will be spent chasing the elusive question of whether anyone can knock off the returning champs. Speaking of champs, first star on the night Killer really lit it up, scoring from almost every angle on the floor. I think he even got an assist while trying to make a line change – When your on fire – YOUR ON FIRE! I slid in close to the reclusive superstar and as he was packing up all his gear whispered, “Will you put Yuri HANDZONMECAC?”
YURI
Windsor Tomcats 