Windsor Tomcats

Well folks, its finally here, the day you all have been waiting for…tomcats Tourney Draft Day. 4 teams, 1 Stanleys Cup Champion, and a whole lot a great memories. We’ll get to the teams in a minute, but first, we’ve got to talk about the action on the Kapusta floor last night.

Terrors Tongue Ticklers – Terror in Net, Hobbs, Big Ned, Foreman, Chevy, Tonto, Snowy, Swifty, Shaft

Flowers Finger Bangers – Flower in Net, Matador, Soupy, Curly, Waldo, Shack, Animal, Killer

2 full benches, and some of the best talent the Tomcats have seen in years. Rumour has it; the reason Soupy wanted to be a captain for the tourney was because he couldn’t take the shame of his draft stock plummeting to a bottom 4th rounder! 2 tight games with the Finger Bangers taking both games, 6-5 and 5-4 respectively. A new award was presented for the first time, the “Topcat of the Night” went to Big Ned, for his beauty dangles, and highlight reel goals, not to mention bringing out 2 new young players to play in the tourney and potential regular tomcats. 

The real action happened afterwards with the long-awaited tourney draft. The 4 Captains joined center court and made their picks, with 4 of the closest teams in terms of talent in years. Speculation coming in was that some of the new youth this year would be first round picks, but the Captains choose 4 veterans over the young bucks to the lead their teams. The marquee 1st overall pick, Matador left no one surprised, with his tenacious drive on the floor, and top-notch play making; he was the undisputed number 1 coming in. Some might say, the Auston Matthews of the draft. A disgruntled soupy remarked, “he’s more like an Alexandre Daigle in my eyes!” I guess we’ll wait and see…

The teams are as follows…

Soupy’s Sun Devils

Waldo                                      

Bullwinkle

Curly

Soupy

Dillon

Rocky

Flower 

Hobbs’ Hooter Hunters 

Hobbs 

Snowpants

Tonto

La Bamba

Killer

Smiley 

Terror

Big Ned Gators

Big Ned

Foreman

Shack

Matador

Swifty

Kamikaze 

Bender

Chevy’s Backdoor Bandits

Chevy

Sunny

Professor

Sweets

Animal

Chico

Falcon

Looking forward to a great day! In case you’ve been living under a rock for the past 2 months, you’ll know that the tournament goes April 18, at 830 AM SHARP!

A new format will be used for this year where each team plays the other teams, then based on that result, teams will be ranked 1-4. We will then go into a Round Robin format (1 vs 4, 2 vs 3) and then play a consolation game for 3rd place, followed by the Championship. All games except the championship game will be 2, 10-minute periods. The Championship game will be 2, 12-minute periods.

Only 3 more weeks of hockey left before the tourney, let’s have some good turnouts to round out the year!

Guest Column by H’aida d’Salami