With the annual tourny, despite the recent blog by President Stevo, I saw several colours – mostly red; as in anger directed by some players at others. It actually lead to a penalty being called (which is not rare), in a tourny, and ‘dust up’, which use to occur once in a while, but has not been seen in a few years. These colours were added to the long sleeved Tomcats SWAG – A BRIGHT ORANGE LONG SLEEVED SWEATSHIRT? Upon seeing the shirt Chevy remarked, “Wow, for Halloween we can all now be Tomcat players,” followed by Snowpants’ remark of “Shit, I haven’t seen so many city workers standing around looking at one another in quite some time.”
Hi-jinks, penalties, sweet goals, saves and jokes aside, when the dust settled the Chevy Sharks took the ever so sweet sip from Stanley’s cup. Prior to the sip they had to first finish off the pesky defending champs Mauraders. The final game ended 4-1 (2-1 with 2 empty-netters to boot). What really surprised critics and bookies alike was that the Chevy Sharks featured first time Stanley Cup virgin sippers Beep, Doc and Chico; all three new players to the Tomcats fold, along with Snowpants’ first ring, and all can now add “Champions” to their resumes.
My predictions were mostly bang on, but I, along with Cribzie were puzzled at his 0-2-1 record. Cribzie would later comment, “We were right there with all the teams, only losing the games in the last 20-30 seconds. Even Skippy played well above what was expected, but we needed a big save from him at times and that never happened.”
For the record team stats went as follows:
CHEVY SHARKS (CHAMPS) 3-0-0, 13GF, 6GA, +7, 6PTS
HOLLYWOOD HOOKS 0-2-1, 15GF, 19GA, -4, 1PT
MAYDAY MAURADERS 2-1-0, 14GF, 14GA, 0, 4PTS
CRIBZIES CROWN ROYALS 0-2-1, 12GF, 15GA, -3, 1PT
CHAMPIONSHIP GAME – SHARKS 4 – MAURADERS 1
MVP, as selected by LaBamba went to Rocky, who collected some sweet prizes, along with another championship ring. And while there usually isn’t any other “stars” selected, such as a second and third star; my choice would go to Crow and Falcon respectively. Special mention goes to Beep for providing all the boys with a new long sleeved Black shirt. Junior commented, “Grr, ok it was nice of him, even if I’m sportin’ his work logo.”
With the end of the tourny, management reminds players there is NO HOCKEY this coming Tuesday.
Other news is the recent announcement by Skippy that this would be his last game until the beginning of April due to the any day expectant arrival of the little Skipster. For those left in the pool – STAY TUNED!!
For photos and more ‘takes’ on the Tournament, check out the April St. Felix. due out in a few days.
Until the ball drops again, Doc, since you looked like you needed a hug out there, Yurri HANDZONMECAC.
Yurri
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