Want to play a different format? Think a rule or two should be changed? Have an opinion on the firmness of the ball (Soupy and Matador (aka The Ball Princesses) – your thoughts are well known, no need to bring up)’ etc.? Only way to voice your thoughts is to attend next week’s Board meeting. No complaining on any changes if you don’t participate.
Details below:
– Board of Directors meeting will be held on TUESDAY APRIL 29 at 630 PM.
– Location is The Soup-r-Dome (Soupy’s garage) in Tecumseh, 1878 St Anne St.
– ALL Tomcats are encouraged to attend, as well as some of the newcomers to maybe provide a fresh insight into the future of the Windsor Tomcats.
– Drinks and food will be served
Let Soupy know ASAP if you plan to attend so we can estimate food and drink needs.
The annual Board of Directors meeting will be held on TUESDAY APRIL 29 at 630 PM. it will be held at soupy’s garage in Tecumseh, 1878 St Anne St. ALL Tomcats are encouraged to attend, as well as some of the newcomers to maybe provide a fresh insight into the future of the Windsor Tomcats. Even if you’re not on the BOD, come for some drinks and laughs, maybe even a “Snowpants Storytime”. Drinks and food will be served, and if there is a Leafs playoff game, you can be assured it will be on!
Please let me know if you plan on attending so we can figure numbers for food. It’s a great time to finish off the year, discuss what went well this season, what we can improve on, and some ideas for next season!
The MVP Life:
Want to know how MVPs role after the big tournament? See below for how Chico spends his days basking in the glory.
‘No’ Ghost writer names, ‘otherwise known as’ stuff, synonyms/homonyms, identifiers or any other ‘shenanigan’s’. This is just ‘me’, and from ‘me’.
Another year has ‘sadly’ come to an end and I don’t know about you, but I’m ‘already’ counting the days till the next season begins.
There has been no other place a guy that simply wants to play some ball hockey can be more accepted or welcomed; and ‘welcoming’ comes even easier if you bring a 24 – cause well Tomcats are an easy group to bribe with a good ‘bottle’, or two….
Tomcat nation features some ‘truly’ exceptional players, balanced out well with the rest of us ‘week end warriors’. The typical Tuesday season ‘algorithm’, despite its detractors, has been pretty dead on. Hell even this tourney; despite some ‘first time’ Captains resulted in pretty tight games. Now if we can only get the ‘Sparky’ time clock back…..
I also think moving the tourney to the ‘last’ day of the regular seasons was a ‘big hit’; but lets consider ‘moving’ back the start time….some of us just ‘aren’t’ used to getting up soooo early & ‘getting right to work’
In ‘other’ tournament ‘first’, a VERY RARE trade was finalized with little time to spare. ‘Rumours’ have it the trade ‘might’ have included some ‘beer’. Would you expect ‘anything’ else from a Tomcat?
Speaking of the tournament, think of how it ‘started’ : Captains Skippy and Rocky taking a brief moment to exchange team shirts. Luck of the draw may have had the two ‘start’ the tradition; but each new game featured ALL Captains making a shirt exchange – ‘CLASSY’.
Ceremonial Jersey Exchange
Tourney results? Probably ‘fated’ when Killer went down and wasn’t able to play. If you believe in ‘fate’ or karma; then it comes as NO surprise the Killers took it all – never once looking like they lost a step and Killer, (Seen sporting some fresh bandages to his wound), was able to come out and happily embraced his team upon their ‘most’ important Championship game ‘win’.
2025 Stanley’s Cup Champions – Rocky’s KillersThe refs, Hollywood and The Rake along with Killer, a captain but on IR – Tomcats are thankful he is on the mend and was able to still take part.
Despite teams getting ‘bumped’ out of the ‘big game’, everyone was quick to congratulate the ‘new champs’.
Way to go ‘Killers’ – and hats off to MVP ‘Chico’ and ‘Most gentleman player’ The Professor.
Chico, the Tournament MVP, along with The Professor, who won the Most Gentleman Award, pose with Soupy and Rocky
Tomcat humility, cheering on each other and quickly forgetting about the game when things are all said and done; that’s the Tomcats spirit.
A great season and a great day of hockey spent with a ‘great’ group of guys. Is there anything better?
Skippy
Rocky’s KillersProfessor’s PupilsKamikaze’s KrakenSkippy’s StarsThe annual “All-Greek” photo – Sunny, Soupy and ShackBender came prepared with his new custom Goalie Jersey
$20 to your Coach/Captain (coaches to provide full amount for their team to Rocky)
$10 to Soupy for pizza
Game Schedule:
Home Visitor
Skippy vs. Rocky
Professor vs. Kamikaze
Team Photo
Professor vs. Skippy
Kamikaze vs. Rocky
Skippy vs. Kamikaze
Rocky vs. Professor
Kamikaze vs. Skippy
Professor vs. Rocky
Rocky vs. Kamikaze
Skippy vs. Professor
Rocky vs. Skippy
Kamikaze vs. Professor
CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
To determine which teams make the championship, it is based on:
⁃ Most Points
– Best +/-
⁃ Most goals for
⁃ Least goals
⁃ Record against the opposing team
⁃ Shoot out
Win is 2 points, tie is 1 and 0 for a loss. Yes, regular games can end in a tie.
Games will be TWO, 7 minute periods Stop time last 1 minute of each period. Time between periods is 2 minutes, 5 minutes between games.
Championship Game will be TWO, 10 MINUTE PERIODS.
If OT is needed for the Championship, refer to Tomcat Rules on the website.
One 30 second timeout allowed per game.
1 minute penalties will be called for rough play.
Referee:
We will have a ref on the floor. Reffing is a tough job. Whatever is called is accepted. We will not tolerate any arguing with the ref.
AND LASTLY REMEMBER, as we have a few newcomers this year, we are all friends out here, this is a fun day to finish off the Tomcats season and have a few beers after to celebrate! Overly aggressive play will NOT be tolerated! For example, If soupy has the ball, don’t go too hard on him, he works very hard to set this tournament up, show some appreciation And let him have a scoring chance! Just saying…Let’s have a great day!
And just like that another Tomcats’s regular season has come to an end. On the final Tuesday night hockey of the season, the boys put on a spectacular show. Everyone looked in playoff form, gearing up for this Saturdays year-end tournament.
In order to get a little practice in before Saturday, Tomcats went with a three goalie rotation. Terror, Bender, and Falcon, donned the pads, all making save after save, keeping the games tight!
Sunny Cork Soakers – Soupy, Shack, Sunny, Hobbs, Big Ned, Smiley, Hurricane, Professor
The Cork Soakers took both games, 6-4 and 7-6 respectively. Plenty of shots, great saves, and fancy passes on both sides of the ball. No one seemed to be “taking it easy” in preparation for Saturday, but it was all good, clean play!
Afterwards on stage, announcements were made, story time with Snowpants, and a few cold ones cracked. By the end, more than a half a dozen tomcats stayed late to chat, share some laughs, and have a beer. That is what it is all about!
It should be noted that newcomer Smiley (killers buddy) was one of those that stayed, he has been a welcome addition to the tomcats, and seems to fit right on with the guys. Way to go Smiley!
Lastly, in a complete honest mistake by the Hurricane, after scoring yet another hat trick on the night, forgot to pay his $5 fee. When asked about it later on he said “oh, I didn’t forget to pay, I’ve been asking for a Seniors Discount for years now, and the board of directors keep saying no, so I figured it’s the last night, I’m taking my own discount!”
You know, when you’ve played as long, and scored as many goals as the Hurricane, in my opinion, you could do whatever the F$CK you want! In a nice move of generosity, his arch- nemesis, and mentor, Chevy, threw in five bucks for him, stating, “I couldn’t beat him on the score sheet tonight, so I’ll have to kill him with kindness.”
Bullwinkle and Professor arrived early to clean up before the annual tournament. These are legit stand up Tomcats!Chico and Soupy arrived early to load empties. Another example of what it means to be a Tomcat. Ask yourself if you live up to Bullwinkle, The Professor, Chico and Soupy?
Also, a reminder that the Board of Directors meeting will be held a few weeks after the Tomcats season concludes, on a Tuesday night probably in early May. As usual, it will be held at soupy’s garage and a email will be sent out with date and time. All Tomcats are encouraged to attend, as well as some of the newcomers to maybe provide a fresh insight into the future of the Windsor Tomcats.
Watch out for an email from Soupy with details for Saturday’s tournament .
“On April Fools Day, believe nothing, trust no one, just like any other day.” – Unknown
It may have been April Fool’s Day, and the eve of “Liberation Day” in an America, but the Tomcats certainly were not fooling around! It was good, clean, hard hockey all over the floor! There wasn’t a single argument, trade dispute, or “Play the Ball” to be heard, just a bunch of dudes being dudes.
Big Ned’s Bulldogs – Soupy, Big Ned, Bender, Hurricane, Shack, Professor, Labamba, Falcon in Net
Tonto Terroriers – Bullwinkle, Snowpants, Chico, Escalade (Dillon), Hobbs, Chevy, Tonto, Terror in Net
2 GREAT games of hockey! Game 1 even saw a pulled goalie with a minute left, with the Terroriers taking it 8-7. Game 2 was just as exciting, back and forth goals, and ended in a 5-5 tie. A couple Notes from the play Last night, we saw the return of Labamba, stating “my Tuesday night ice hockey league is done, so I’m only playing hockey 4 nights a week now, I had to get out and get used to the Tomcat game again.” In no surprise to anyone, he jumped right back in, making crisp passes, and great defensive plays.
Amazing chemistry between Soupy and Big Ned, they just seemed to find each other all over the floor. Each with a few goals, Soupy claimed after, “I must have taken 75 shots tonight, and 72 of them I buried into Terrors chest!” Speaking of Big Ned, he ALMOST had the Tomcat goal of the year, in a little bit of trickery. He flicked the ball from behind the net to himself and batted it in out of mid air into the net! However it was determined that his stick was above the crossbar, BUT not by much! The goal was disallowed, but the effort and skills was greatly appreciated!
Hurricane wanted it to be known that after his hat trick last night, he claims he has the tomcat record for most hat tricks. When asked for comment on this, he said “I basically own ALL the Tomcat Records, people should be calling OVI, “The Dave Hann of Goal Scoring”. Keep it going, Hurricane!
In lieu of The Sparky Clock not currently “sparking’l the Tomcats brought out a new spark-less score board to help fill the void
Lastly, a nickname was chosen for Falcons son, Dillon, he will now be called Escalade, due to his choice of “And 1” basketball shorts from 2002. He showed some great promise last night on forward, potting 2 goals on the same shift. He’s really starting to get the feel of tomcats hockey and will be a great addition to the tournament. When asked about what he thinks about playing, he said “you know, when you’re the smartest, most athletic, and best looking of the Falcon Triplets, it’s a lot of pressure, but I’m the best Menzel there ever was, so I just go hard in the paint, and take it to the rim, err umm, net every time!”
Not sure why he had to trash talk his brothers there, but happy to see him excelling.
Only 1 more week of hockey before the year end tourney, make sure you come out next week for a final tune up!
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