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.
Windsor Tomcats 