Sure, last night was Halloween, and that made for a very obvious excuse to cancel hockey. Lots of guys with younger kids that need to be home to assist with Trick or Treating duties.
However, truth be told, the real reason for cancelling was not that guys were needing to be home on Halloween. No, instead, future Tomcat President, Soupy, recruited several Tomcats to staff a secret strike team of Halloween Ninjas to police the streets of Tecumseh in search of candy-stealing teenagers.
Turns out, there are bands of teenage girls driving around in vehicles and stealing full bowls of candy left out my homeowners that use the honor system while they take their own children out for Halloween.
It gets better…since Soupy and his lovely wife Serta have young sons, they themselves implemented the honor system and left bowls of candy out for trick or treaters. By chance, Soupy witnessed a band of 5 teenage girls swipe his candy (bowls and all). Being the leader of the elite Ninja squad established to stop this very crime, Soupy confronted the scoundrels who yelled some explicit profanity at him, tossed the bowls on the ground and left with the candy. Witnesses heard the teeny boppers mention something about Soupy often makes one too many moves and gives up the ball too often…not sure what that is all about?!?! While the thieves made off with the loot, Soupy hopes the confrontation scared off other would-be candy stealing groups from taking more candy from last night’s Halloween festivities. Soupy is said to be planning attend Tecumseh Council in the near future to see how future Halloweens do not have to worry about such inappropriate behavior.
In other news, Snowpants did not get the cancelation email and showed up to hockey thinking it was costume night:
Word has it, Snowpants played hockey by himself and scored his first hat trick of the season
Next week: BIG NET NIGHT. We need some brave goalies to man the vast expanse of the big nets. BIG NED bobbleheads will be given out to the first 6 fans that enter the arena.
Guest reporting for the Tomcats,
Mike Ockhurts
Windsor Tomcats 