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By Harry Ballsonue
“The screen door slams, Mary’s dress waves, Like a vision she dances across the porch
As the radio plays. Roy Orbison singing for the lonely, Hey that’s me and I want you only
Don’t turn me home again. I just can’t face myself alone again”
Bruce Springsteen
Teams:
Snowpants Fury: Snowpants (Captain) Sparky, La Bamba, Shack, Doc, Killer, Chevy, Spinner, Soupy, Kamikaze (Game two)
Sunny Stingrays: Sunny (Captain) Cribzie, Kamikaze (Game one) , Hollywood, Danish, Hurricane, Green Giant, Turk, Rocky and Stevo (Game two)
Hockey proved good, with the Snowpants Fury winning it by scores of 9-2 and 9-6. When the other team scores 18 goals and you score only 8, well…you are not going to win.
I thought we gave La Bamba too much room out there to move the ball, he is the most Cerebral player out there and you just can’t give him that much time” Indicated Captain, Sunny.
“Shack saved our bacon a few times, goaltending wins championships, and man oh man, did Shack ever play great to keep us in the games” indicated Snowpants.
“There was this one Fury, that the Stingrays had”, smiled Sparky, “They must of had 7-8 shots and wacks at the ball and Shack made every save, everyone, except for the one, that bounced out to the top of the key and Hollywood zinged it in, but, 7 saves, one after the other, Shack was unbelievable” concluded Sparky.
No three star selection, but if there was, the number one star, Et la Premiere etoile, # 27, Shack.
After having scored two goals in the first game, Doc had to leave the game, with an undisclosed lower body injury. The Fury then traded a 3rd round pick for Kamikaze and Stevo was inserted into the line up for the Stingrays.
Lovie, who had a lower body injury himself to content with (believed to be a groin injury) reffed the games and made some good calls and dropped the ball at center effectively.
There are only three nights left, March 31, April 7 and April 14.
Solid goes out to Soupy for bringing a 24 instead of just a 12.
NHL Playoff Hockey Pool: Lovie is to organize the event and will be establishing the date of the draft sometime soon, so if you are interested, have your $11 ready and be ready to pick a team.
Out Door Game: You are reminded, to let Chico know, if you plan to play in…. or bring guys to the out door game. It goes Tuesday April 21, 2015 at that is a 6pm start. There is a sign up sheet at the Kapusta Kow…if you signed it, then you are fine and don’t need to get a hold of Chico.
Tomcat Golf Tournament: Fox Glen, May 29 (Friday) tee offs start at 10 a.m. Cost is only $38 for golf and a cart and then the celebration is at Fox Glen after. Please let Snowpants know if you are planning on going. Its a fun day….and the day will be beautiful, 81 degree’s with a slight breeze and one cloud in the sky, the shape of a baby elephant.
And if I ever forget to add my tag line to the end of a blog update, hopefully the editors at WindsorTomcats.com will notice while I put my Harry Ballsonue!
Tomcats Forever
Twas a festive night at the Kapusta Kow Palace! Sea of green everywhere!
Green tee shirts, green trilby’s, green top hats, and yes lots o’ Green beer everywhere!
As usual good, solid pretty clean hockey all around, teams were great, all sorts of fun and shenanigans too.
Teams looked like this;
The White Giant Shilalaghs captained by Spinner, Sunny, his kid Sol, Chevy(who was a no call no show), Flintstone, Bulldog, Turk Shackalaka in net.
The Great Green Shamrocks captained by Sparky Matador, Jingles, Hollywood, Tunzie, Killer, Green Giant, Falcon in net.
The Colossal Black Potato Famines lead by Cribzie, Beep, Rocky Snowpants, Hurricane, Rake(who was also a no call no show), Ruby, and Razor in net.
Everyone was Irish today, St. Paddy’s day was the atmosphere, it was something you could almost smell it, bottle it and take it home with you. The first five thousand fans received Hurricane bobble heads, carved out of potatoes. It was electric when U2 played the National Anthems. By the end of the night the concession stands were almost sold out of Lucky Charms. Irish stew was the main staple of the night. Kids were seen with Shamrock shakes, the adults were sampling Killians Red, Tullamore Dew, Jamesons, Harp Lager, Murphy’s, Smithwicks and of course Guinness! Even the Mascot from Notre Dame was seen walking around and posing for photographs with everyone. The biggest sponsor of the night definitely was O O O O’Reillys!
Super solid by Beep, was to bring a twelve, but brought a full box. A whaling Behemoth of a Gargantuan solid, on his own of his birthday Tunzie brings a delicious sampling of salami and summer sausage and fine cheeses from around the world. And to top it all off he was serving his version of Irish car bombs to everyone by bringing a bottle. A toast to Tunzie! Here’s to a long life and merry one. A quick death and an easy one. A pretty girl and an honest one a cold pint and another one!
The Black Potato Famines took the mini, with a fantastic display of defense, offense and all around charm and good looks. Rumour was Razor was playing with an undisclosed upper injury.
Well now sitting in this press box, I‘ve been sipping Irish cream all night and I see the bottle is empty so I will close. May the luck of the Irish be with all of you (which isn’t a good thing folks). Phil Landerer enjoying another night of covering the Tomcats and eventually a lovely lass! I leave you with this, an old Irish proverb! Cheers Gentlmen (and ladies)!
May you have the hindsight to know where you’ve been, the foresight to know where you are going, and the insight to know when you have gone too far.
“Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to live what you get.”
George Bernard Shaw
First on the Main Event Tournament, played February 28, 2015…. I thought it was played out very well. The best part is the full team Picture and then the drinks afterword. Doc’s Devils have bragging rights
for the year. Bear Cat was selected correctly as the tournament MVP. He was outstanding in the net for the Kamikaze Canucks, who should have had their name with a K……Kanucks.
Loved that the Rakecoons team came up with an alternative shirt called the ‘Land O Rakes’. That is team spirit and what the day stands for. I think Stevo must of posed
with everyone person in the northern hemisphere on Saturday, but those are memories that wall be kept in the digital world forever.
Captains for next year are all first year ever Main Event Captains, Tunzie, Matador, Beep and Soupy. Good luck to the three of you that don’t get first pick!
Tuesday Tournament Teams
Matador Sulu’s Matador, (Captain), Tunzie, Snowpants,Soupy, Green Giant, Doc and Razor
Hollywood Uhura’s Hollywood (Captain), Beep, La Bamba, Stevo, Spinner, Jingles, Ruby and Shack
Hurricane Spock’s Hurricane (Captain), Sunny, Chevy, Sparky, Cribzie, Falcon and Kamikaze
The Hurricane Spocks (In Honour of Spock passing away) won the tournament. Hurricane…”I am just full of emotion right now, I love Star Trek, I watch it every day, to win tonight and to have my team called the Spock’s, well, I’m almost in tears” Hurricane had indicated.
Solid goes out to Chevy for bringing a 2-4 of Bud Light on Tournament day. “I thought the boys might be thirsty, so I brought it.” Chevy had said, Put her there….Chevy!
Solid goes out to new comer, Ruby, brings a 12, “I was nervous and excited and I thought I should bring something.” Ruby said
Solid goes out to the Green Giant for bringing 12 tall boys. “The guys have just been totally incredible to me and very welcoming, bringing some beer, is the least I can do” a beaming Green Giant had indicated.
Solid goes out to Sunny who brought out 4 bags of chips for the boys to enjoy. “Crunch away Salakiss”, Sunny said
Solid goes to Hollywood for brining Kielbasa, Cheese and crackers…nice move!
The three Star selection as selected by La Bamba, the third star, # 30 Falcon, the second star #23 Cribzie and the first star #4 (Who played like Bobby Orr) Sparky.
Next week Stevo is not there and Rocky and Hollywood are running the show, so please let them know if you are not able to make it. It is March break….so Tomcats know the following are out: Crow, Stevo, Doc, Kamikaze, Chico and La Bamba
Last night of Hockey will be on April 14 and the Out Door game goes on April 21. After that, the Tomcats will roll into the Dom Polski for some beer and Pizza and beer.
Hey while you are, for the third time, going up to get more kielbasa and chips, would you mind if I put my Harry Ballsonue
Before anyone goes and ‘googles’ it; this is actually the year of the goat according to the Chinese Zodiac; which if your the superstitious type may have lead you to bet on the Sheep Dogs. I mean they were the closest in terms of a name to a goat – right?
The Kamikaze Canucks and Doc’s Devils likely don’t go out and purchase the Chinese tabloids or media; both teams after all are lifetime subscribers to the St Felix.
And while the Devils each featured some great players and playmakers; both teams arguably had the same concern pointed out by scouts. The area of concern? Goaltending.
Harry in his January 25th article did a bang up job evaluating each teams overall look, and he correctly predicted the final two teams. He also emphasized that ‘goaltending wins games’; a remark only made with the Devils and Kanucks.
Bearcat and Skippy must have ignored the media pressure; particularly Bearcat who last year had one of his most disappointing showings. It was only fitting then that not only did Bearcat lead his team to the finals; but he captures the tournament MVP to boot. Very fitting -the guy sported a 2.3 GAA. Harry predicted the final teams; but my earlier articles have proven true with both mini tournaments and the finals. To win, a team had to score an average of two goals a game; and allow less than two goals to be scored against them. The Devils defense was just .5 over with their GAA.
A really interesting tournament in the 26th year of the club. Two penalties called during the day and a second year in which the finals required overtime. The biggest surprise, and one not likely to have been bet on – Skippy quietly captures back to back cups. Year of the ‘under’ dog indeed. A Tomcat salute to the Bearcat and Skippy whilst I’m Pattyn Megryoin.
Pattyn
Some moments from the tournament…