By Harry Ballsonue
“Why is a Puck called a Puck? Because ‘dirty little bastard’ was already taken.”
Martin Brodeur
Teams;
Cribzie Cardinal Stars Cribzie Captain, Beep, Matador, Snowpants, Spinner, Flintstone, Kamikaze and Skippy
Rocky’s Raven Stars Rocky Captain, Lovie, Soupy, Chevy, Falcon, Sparky, Doc and the Rake
Hollywood Hawk Stars Hollywood Captain, Sunny, Eagle, Jingles, Stevo, Chico and Shack
It was all star night at the Kapusta Kow Palace and the stars shone brightly. Rocky’s Raven’s, sent out an all star line up, that some NHL teams would kill for, they won the tournament with 6 points.
The Three Star Selection, as selected by La Bamba, 3rd Star, #23 Cribzie, the Second star #18 Soupy and the first star #22 Lovie.
All Star night, and the Windsor Tomcats gave away a car to the highest scorer. Yes a VW was awarded to Soupy who scored something like 12 goals. “Wow a VW, nice, thanks……” indicated a beaming Soupy.
Lovie was selected first star for his play but could have been easily selected because of his super solid, when he brought a 24 of tall boy Rolling Rock. Super Solid Lovie, Super Solid!
The Rake also gets mention with a solid for brining Kielbasa, cheese and some delicious bread. “I thought it would be a nice thing to do for the boys, being one of the more ‘popular’ Tomcats, it’s something nice to do.” indicated The Rake. Put her there Rake, great job!
The hockey, over all was good, a bit intense at times, it is the NHL after all, so you can understand why some guys just go full bore.
4 weeks left before the Main Tournament and I hate to see if the Minis are so intense, how will the Main Event turn out…Yeeeshh!
On the Rumour front, the hot Rumour is that Junior has cleared waivers and will be inserted into the February 3 line up. Also, Zaba has been re- called from the European Ball Hockey League (EBHL) and should see some action, he has been playing for the Warsaw Eagles and the team is struggling, the Tomcats felt his development would be better served in North America then have him stay in Europe.
As for the Tournament teams…Lets go over one team again, I could not help notice that the Rake, (an Austrian) Selected a German, Falcon, an Englishman, The Eagle, Four Ukrainians, Hollywood, May Day, Chevy and Stevo and two Polish fellas, Jingles and Zaba…..Interesting.
With Junior and Zaba back in the line-up, I asked Rocky if there would be any four team mini tournaments leading up to the main Tournament , he laughed and said, “well with the amount of guys that we have coming out…and some of our full time guys are not coming out, we could probably have a night with four teams, but we will just cancel our part timers if something like that is even close to happening,” Rocky had indicated. Stevo is interested in giving as many guys as possible a chance to play and practice for the tournament, so therefore, it is anticipated that minis will be the flavour of the month for February.
“Personally I can’t believe how many guys we have coming out each night”, stated Spinner, “10 years ago, we would have 2 spares, this whole Tomcat thing has really taken off, it’s the Cat’s Meow,” the Spinner concluded
In other media related news, The March 2015 Issue of the St. Felix comes out February 1, please give it a look…it is loaded with information on the upcoming Main Tournament and there are some photos from last year’s Golf Tournament. It is four pages….packed with interesting information and stories.
Hey, whilst you are sipping a nice cold beverage after hockey, on stage, do you think I could put my Harry Ballsonue.