Windsor Tomcats

By Harry Ballsonue

“No matter how much cats fight, there always seems to be plenty of kittens”
Lincoln Abraham

TEAMS:

Kamikaze Komets: Captain Kamikaze, Snowpants, Lovie, Chevy, Cribzie, Killer and Hollywood (Net Minder)
Doc’s Sturgeons: Captain Doc, Soupy, Jingles, Rocky, Razor (Net Minder), Hurricane and Chico
Sheep Dogs From Outer Space: Captain Sheep Dog, Tunzie, Matador, Falcon (net Minder), Stevo and The Turk

Hockey, I don’t mind saying was a bit rough….it is a well known fact that everyone wants to win…and score a ton of goals….everyone is competitive, but after all, when it is all said and done, it’s just Tuesday night hockey.  We really don’t need the two handers waking at sticks, we don’t need the hooking and pushing in front of the net, and we certainly don’t need players trying to take advantage of anyone, because that would be wrong and that is not what Tuesday night hockey is all about, the thinking is you should judge YOUR night on how much sweat is in your headband and not how many goals you scored, some maybe have it backwards.

Stevo asked that I quickly go over some of the rules re ‘time out play’.  There really is only two plays that a team has to wait for the other team to set up and get ready, 1) when the play is blown dead, due to a ball going out of bounds or when the ball is hit with a high stick, or if there is an injured player.  Basically anytime, there is a stoppage, the other team can make a change and get ready for the ball to be played, the second time would be 2) after a goal, it would be gentleman like and sportsmanlike of the team that got scored on to wait till everyone was ready before the ball is played. (and usually players do wait for the goalie to wipe his brow…and set for the play)

When is there no need for a ‘time out’ type play? Well that’s an easy one folks, when the goalie stops the ball and plays it into the safety zone…there is no stoppage then, the player can play it as quickly as he wants and if he does not want to, well then he has 8 seconds to move the ball, if he does not the other team gets it in the corner. (And we can see when the players from the team scurry to get into place, on plays like this….sometimes, ‘it’s just a bad line change’)

Stevo, hopes that everyone is clear on that, and he totally understands, if you go home and mark down how many goals you scored in your diary….or tell your wife, “I was great today honey on the floor, you should have seen me, I think maybe I’m ready for the NHL Babe, what do you think?”, but, he wants everyone to be mindful of what Tuesday night is all about.

For the record, the Kamikaze Komets took the tournament, and the Mini  was decided on the number of goals they scored compared to the number of goals that the Sturgeons scored, so congrats to the Komets.

3 Star Selection as Selected by La Bamba….3rd star, #55, Snowpants, 2nd star, #26 Chevy and the first star, #22 Lovie.

Lovie also gets recognized for a solid as he brought a ‘just because case’. Lovie brought a 24 of Rolling Rock, so you are the champ in our books Lovie.

As a beat writer, now blog writer of a professional team, you would think I would be in the know a great deal more and give you the reader more insight, but I am just a normal guy, doing a normal job and sometime, (if they don’t tell me and if I don’t snoop or ask, then I don’t find out), but last week, Sunny brought a case of Yuengling (American’s Oldest Brewery) I was did not find this out until later in the week, anyway, he had gone to Ohio to pick it up for the boys, now if that is not a franchise player, I don’t know what is….

Don’t forget to tell Chevy, Sunny or Snowpants if you are going to the Christmas Party this year, they need to know in order to finalize plans on menu items and the game show that Snowpants is organizing.

Chico is already in the Christmas spirit with his festive socks and shirts.

January 2015 St. Felix will be out December 1, so make sure you come to the Tomcat web site and check it out.

Hey do you think, when you are trying really hard on the Kapusta Kow Palace to make the NHL, I can put my Harry Ballsonue.