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Boys have Green Light to Penalty box
Well boys the title says it all. We skated
hard, we out played them, but the referees suddenly finding
their whistles in the 3rd cost us our first win streak of the
year...Yep...halted at one. Even the Black Label couldn't save
us. Down 2 - 0 early, and easily out playing the Green Grinches,
the boys in Blue never quit. Rob Canning with his 2 no goals
(offside) and 1 counter aided in our come back, and Claudies
"Laser" as Jim refered to (off 2 defence) put us right
back in it. But as the title dictates, it was then a green light
to the penalty box. First Claude, then Marc, Adrian,
Dennis...and then yep the team bully Murray. The ice ghosts of
Blackburn Hamlet also had us pegged. This was noted when first
the "Hatch-man" got hung up on the out gate, and then
Robbie Canning, the same story. This as Murray (in the penalty
box) was yelling at him to get his ass on the ice, and pay
attention. Little did he know that Rob's feet were moving but
with his jersey caught he was left spinning his wheels. The best
note of the game (and Pat to bad you missed this) was Murray
after voice-ing his displeasure, forgot that his penalty had
ended. When it was brought up to him he was so excited, he left
the box in a blazing speed, piroetted a nice 360, and then fell
flat on his ass. This slightly added to his already, smoking
ears.
Next time we'll be ready.....Murray....just
hope the Grinches are!
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Blue No More
Finally, at last, about time......Yes that's right fans of the
Blue Whiners, we won one yesterday. After getting down
early Blue showed their mettle and worked hard to eek out an 8-5
win over White. With a full line up and some good pairings
it was evident from the get go that Blue had a little more jump
than usual and were in the game even after being down 3-1 and
5-3 and points in the game. No eyes were cast to the floor
and everyone came back to back check on every shift resulting in
a near shut down of white in the 2nd period. Marc Bastien
was solid on D but was over shadowed by Crazy Legs Pete Aubry
who netted a couple and took the bumps to keep the puck in on
numerous occasions. Rob Canning, Norris Milley, Denis
Gaurdreault scored as did Pat who capped the game with an open
net goal from inside our end
after White pulled the goalie in the last 2 minutes. The
play was set up when Dan Williams cleaned out one of the White
defenders forcing the turnover. The mood in the room took
a positive up turn as everyone had a go at some select
Saskatchewan ale procured by Murray. Well
done Big Blue!!!
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Solid
effort by Blue but Red Squeaks out victory Lose 7-6
We're getting closer ....no doubt about it.
Blue came oh so close and from a couple of goals down to
put in a solid effort against Red. Having tied the game 6-6 it
wasn't until a rush by red, that they scored their final goal
with 2 minutes remaining. The game was highlighted by the return
of Marc (2 beer) Bastien, and he didn't disappoint, putting in a
solid effort on D. Of course we all know that once he gets his
legs, he will be moving up. (Your still not old enough Marc).
Other highlights was the prowess of Nephie Norris, with a couple
of slick passes and solid shots, in his best game of the year.
Denis Gaudreault again impressed with his solid forechecking and
skating ability to aid in potting 2 goals on one shift. It's all
coming together boys, with 12 rookies, of course we started
slow. We will be force to be recon with in the second half of
the season.....as rookies and vets start to put it
together.
See ya on Thurs
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It's
Deja-vu All Over Again
For a summary of last Friday's go to https://www.angelfire.com/theforce/blueteam/index.html#BLUE%20GETS%20GOLDFINGERED
, change the date to Nov 19 and change the score to 14-1.
Word from the Ottawa Police is that another showing like this
and there will be a need to call out the crime lab to determine
the cause of the beating. On the upside, it appears as if
we are getting some social assistance as it appears that we are
being beat like the proverbial red-headed step child and
Children's Aid may step and provide some protection.
For anyone who is interested we have now fooled the other teams
into thinking we are bad so it is time to step it up and begin
the long climb back. We have them
where we want them!
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BLUE
TEAM MEMBERS FAIL MENSA ENTRANCE EXAM
Okay faithful readers let me get this straight, last week we
get hosed by 10 goals, play porous defence and barely break a
sweat. The end result was that the bookies made the Blue
team heavy under dogs and the over under was 10 and in typical
Blue fashion we confused the bookies and put in a stellar effort
and lost 2-1 to Gold after leading 1-0 after 2
periods. All in all it was a pretty good game punctuated
by Rob Canning get us up early on a fabulous no effort (really
Billy hardly moved at all) pass from Billy. Joe was solid
in nets and bailed out the defence with great saves and solid
clearing plays. Today also saw the return of Tony White
who had his skates sharpened before the game but apparently
failed to get the hole in his stick fixed as he whiffed on no
less than 5 open nets in the 2nd period.
Highlights from the bench
included Adrian trying to go over the boards and crashing back
onto the bench when he realized that the Blackburn Hamlet boards
are just a shade too high to go over. As for the Mensa
membership you only had to watch some of the CF's best and
brightest try and figure out how to rotate 7 forwards while
maintaining 4 defencemen. By games end they still hadn't
figured it out and were still trying to do the math in the
locker room. The 4 D stood solid and refused to reduce to
3 as there was just a little too much skating and judging by the
score they were
obviously much smarter than the forwards.
Good game Blue and this should go down
as a moral victory after last week
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BLUE
IS RED ALL OVER
Kurt Cobain immortalized the line "smells like teen
spirit" from the album Nevermind and we on the Blue Team
are making "smells like Blue Team" just as famous
after a 9-4 pounding from Red at the Blackburn Abattoir.
Things that went well:
(1) Pete brought the beer
(2) Murray cut his deficit to minus 3 (down from minus 6
in his not so
triumphant return last week)
(3) Walter Clarke and Tony White demonstrated how to bat
pucks out of the
air (Tony slow pitched to Walt)
(4) Did I mention, Pete brought the beer
Things that didn't go so well:
(1) Pete drank the beer before the game
(2) The infield fly rule accounted for two of the Red
team goals with both
pucks bouncing over Pete's head
(3) Late comers messed up the team karma and three goals
were scored while
we tried to do the math to sort out line changes
(4) The third period
Honourable mentions go out to the scorers for the game:
Walter, Jim, Pat and
Tony
No game beer was handed out and this is becoming problematic
because we will soon have a cooler full of game beers at the
rate we are going. Perhaps it is time to lower the bar a
bit and start considering anyone who finishes on
the + side of the ledger as deserving of consideration.
Gold on Friday on the big ice, bring oxygen.
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RETURN OF THE
MOUTH NETS NO REWARD
The much anticipated return of the team enforcer, Murray, was
finally realized this past Friday and the results were not
quite what was expected. Murray's normal steadying influence
on the Blue-Liners was noticeably absent as goals were
plentiful for Black in an 8-5 (I think it was 5) beating of
Blue. Too many passes, without mustard on them, too many
unmanly clearing attempts and generally too much adjusting of
the equipment at inopportune times led to too many turnovers
and easy chances for Black. Truth be told Murray was not
alone at the Blame-O-Meter, he had plenty of company from
those who didn't back check or stayed out 2 minutes too long
on their shift. The mood before the game probably sealed our
fate when Big Pete announced that he forgot to fill the cooler
and that there were only 6 beer to go
around (nobody was willing to share a beer with Billy).
Realizing that the only motivational tool in our arsenal was
missing you could almost sense the emotion leaving the room.
Pete - next time you will get even less support
than was provided on Friday -----fill the damn cooler!
Friday also marked the first time that Blue iced a full line
up with 9 forwards and 4 defence, reason enough to celebrate
if there had of been any beer. The game beer went to
Terry but not because he played exceptionally well but rather
because he whined that he didn't get a beer even though it was
decided ahead of time that you needed to score to get a beer
due to the miniscule supply.
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BLUE GETS GOLDFINGERED
Feeling like it was time for the Blue Team after 40 medical,
Gold did the honours and jammed what appeared to be 12 fingers
into the deepest darkest recesses of our collective hockey
bags and spanked Blue 12-2, the upside was we not only covered
the 10.5 spread but our two goals gave us the Over. Days like
this provide your loyal scribe with his greatest challenges,
what to write and how do I write it without offending
the guilty? In order to protect the accused who are
entitled to a day in kangaroo court there will be no names
used in today's summary. The following players stepped
up and contributed in the face of adversity:
1. ?
2. ?
3. ?
The following players didn't make the cut:
_______Insert name here)_________ ((Players who achieved
the dubious
"Golden Sombrero", a Minus 3 in one shift should
insert their names in
BOLD))
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> No Can - No Karma!
>
> Just two short days after revisiting the "Tall
Boy" Karma system there was a gap in the plan and no
"Tall Boy" made it to the game. With nothing
to play for there was bound to be a let down and White took
advantage to net a 4-3 win over Blue. As usual the
festivities began in the locker room with Terry Collins
catching no end of grief for showing up without a face shield
and having to pack up and head home. Terry - just a
reminder that the face shield is for our benefit so that we
don't have to look at you, it has nothing to do with your
safety. The other Terry, Terry Cull, chose to poke a
fair bit of fun at Terry for forgetting his shield but the
last laugh belongs to our writer as I expose Terry Cull for
being a fraud after exhibiting his own forgetfulness by
showing up without a sweater. Other noticeable things
forgotten yesterday included back checking in our own end as
White capitalized on two miscues late in the game to come from
behind. Pat displayed his lack of prowess behind the
blue line by gamely giving up the puck while having visions of
being Bobby Orr. The game featured numerous breakaways
and 2 on 1's that Blue couldn't capitalize on. All hands
should be commended for a solid effort that just came up a
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The
Return of the Game Beer
In an effort to change the karma Pat went back to Old
Milwaukee and brought back the case of bottles and the Game
Beer Tall Boy. Now that there was incentive perhaps our
fate would change. Not a good start with 8 players again
and a loaner goalie from Gold, probably looking to get in the
work he missed out on Friday. Playing three back and 5
up the Blue went out and was quickly behind 1-0 on a nice move
from one of the new speedy green gophers. Following a frantic
5 minute spurt in the second where we couldn't clear the puck
to save our lives the game was knotted up with a low shot from
Denis that beat the goalie from 30 feet. Green climbed
to 3-1 on a lucky bounce and some shoddy clearing on our part
before Blue again stepped it up with Rob Canning getting a
goal as well as Denis to tie it up at 3-3. Hanging on in
our own end in the last minute our effort was compounded by
Pat taking a holding penalty with 19 seconds to go but the
Boys hung on and earned a well deserved 3-3 tie which was as
good as a win after the 9-3 mauling by Green two weeks ago.
A fine effort all around but the game beers (Brought a long an
extra) went to Denis Gagnon for filling in the pipes and
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Blue
goes diggin for Gold
Dig dig dig, work work work and what do we get for our
trouble.....same old result another L! A short bench, 5
forwards and 3 defence, meant lots of ice time for anyone
looking to work on their VO2Max. Gold came hard and
showed that they are the team to beat this year. A fluke
deflection in the first and Gold had the lead when Joe lost
sight of the puck as it bounced off of Walt's pants. A
scoreless 2nd period and Blue was hanging tough but Gold kept
coming and potted another on a magnificent effort by 47 (I
believe he should be drug tested) to make it 2-0 late. A
power play goal by Gold put the game out of reach and also
provided the highlight of the night as Mike Delorey was tossed
for insisting the referee get an assist on the goal due to the
horrible call. Quite the scam to get an early shower and
avoid
Billy the shower voyeur. While circling like a vulture
at centre ice Billy scooped up an errant puck and was off to
the races and netted the only marker on a frozen Gold goalie
who likely didn't get more than 10 shots directed at him.
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Red
Waxes Blue
Dateline Tuesday 19 Oct 04 Blackburn Hamlet. In what
hopefully will not become a recurring pattern Red beat up on
our boys in Blue 5-2 in a near repeat of our last meeting.
Actually the game was reasonably tight until the 90 second
mark when Pete "where are my feet" Bouchard let a
soft slider squeak in under his pads. A sure sign that
things were going in the wrong direction was when Pete sat on
the bench during the "intermission". The
lesson here is that Pete is not a young lad anymore and really
should volunteer to play back to back games. Highlights
on Blue were "Pee Wee"
(sorry new guy I don't yet know your name but if you insist on
showing up in your gear you will get stuck with Pee Wee)
scoring a nice goal coming up from his D position. And
that pretty much ended the highlight package. Beer was cold in
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Blueys put up fine effort
Now this was a performance. 6 count 'em
6 True Blues showed up and skated their butts off tonight,
tying Black (20 on the bench) twice with a superb effort. Yep
we had them 3-3 and 5-5, but succumbed in the final minutes to
lose a great loss 7 - 5. We had outstanding "Rookie"
performances by Dennis Gaudreault winning almost every draw,
Adrian Luczanko " Lucy", " Lutzy",
"Lucky"....pick one, and Rob Estey who potted his
first of many for the year. All players played all positions
and did great. Even Petey Bouchard took a turn in net and did
not disappoint. Willy potted 3 and assited on 2, with Terry
" am I Billy's shape yet" Cull depositing the final.
An all round great performance by Blue and we could have
easily won this thing. If your bored or pretending to solve
the military's problems at work, and feel the urge to come and
join us.....that would be a good thing. Mikey D, hope you
enjoyed your suds....til next week have a good one..
Turn outs, Gaudreault, Lucy, Estey,
Harquail, Williams, Cull and mighty Pete. |
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Grenade goes off on Blue
Well it was an explosion we (those
who showed up) would like to forget. It could be 3 yrs since
the depleted blue lost to green but this was a little
disheartening. We again had neither the bodies or the legs to
keep the green machine from filling our net....losing 9 - 2.
Yep, we skated, we plodded but what ever we were doing out
there they were skating 3 times as fast. Who scored for
us....well who really cares. It was a 7 goal differential that
was not fun to be part of. Again Blue came out with less that
10 skaters and it showed. Trying to skate off 10 24s of beer
drank during the summer, OR on the FREDRICTON last winter just
isn't happening in the early season...especially when
with more of what slows us is available after the game.
Any way it was a sad performance all around and enough said on
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Headline of the year....We're back on line
All Right...Al Right already...do to
popular demand and Billy, Patty, Claudie....and all you other
Blue Team whiners....we're back on line. Better yet.....we
have a new message
board to stop those
countless annoying emails from the Ghost, where ever he is.
Check the headlines and message board often....as your name
could be in lights. |
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| Welcome
New Recruits to Big Blue
Welcome
old "old timers" or new "old timers" what
ever it may be. You lucky boys have been selected to play with
the prestigious Big Blue. Hope you have a great year with us.
Hello
to the following "rookies"
Joe
Mochilan (goal), Pete "can't stay away from Blueboys"
Bouchard (goal), Dennis Gaudreault, Norris Milley, Maurice
Lavallee, Rob Estey, Nelson Hatch, and the glorious return of
the hardened VET MR. Charlie Olver.
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#1 from the President
* Registration:
For those lacing up the skates, registration was due on 1 Oct.
Team reps need to take a hard approach on this - no pay, no
play. For those who are not currently available due to
injury or TD, but want their names left on the roster given
their eventual return, deadline for registration is 1 Nov.
Starting 1 Nov, those unpaid players could
very well find themselves removed from the roster, and
replaced by someone patiently waiting to play from our waiting
list.
* Jerseys:
I still have at least another 14 jerseys that need to be
ordered. I would like to place an order this week, so
please get details (and dollars) to myself or Gerry Dagenais
as soon as possible, with a working target date of 7 Oct.
* Team Captains/Alternates:
We had said on a number of occasions that team captains, and
alternates, should have the "C" or "A" on
their jersey, and that these players will be the only ones to
discuss calls with the on-ice officials (in a tactful and
respectful manner, of course). It has been noted that there
are still some teams without anyone wearing a "C" or
"A". We agreed on how the refs should handle
the calls, so team reps should ensure that their appointed
players get their jerseys fixed up. Sufficient C's and A's
were passed out last season, but if you need more, let me
know. Also, there are a number of places that you can
get them sewn on - the one I dealt with was Claudette's in
Blackburn Hamlet, just
around the corner from the rink. Her shop is on
Old Innes Road, right next to the Blackburn Arms. She'll
charge something like $1 to sew on the letter, and even has
the template that I passed out last year.
* Refreshments:
Remember, new rink staff to deal with - the law is the law.
Finally, go out and have some fun. Remember, it is only
a game. I understand that we have already had some
belly-aching going on with calls made during a practice game
last week - un-freaking-believable!! Perhaps a reminder
needs to be made for those "whiners" out there.
You can tell them for me that this is "old-timers"
hockey, everyone is 35 years of age or older - there is no
chance at a pro contract, no real consequence for winning or
losing, no replays on Sports Desk the following day, and the
Sun sports editor doesn't care about our league - so kindly
stuff a sock
in it and relax. Being a highly skilled player is
not required in order to make the team in this league, but
continuously being a jerk will likely see you removed from it.
It is just a game, and 98% of the players in this league just
want to enjoy some good, clean, competitive hockey.
See you all on the ice, keep your head up and your stick down,
and enjoy!
CWO Wayne A.J. Quinn
President
CFSU(O) Old-Timers Hockey League
944-4040
Internet e-mail: Quinn.WAJ@forces.gc.ca
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BILL VOL I
Well fellow fleet footed blue whiners here is the first
write up of the year. Sorry Dan but I forgot your e-mail
address.
With a thin bench and volunteers on D Big Blue laced em up
with a bench full of rookies and took on the mighty red team.
Well I don't know about you but red appears to have gotten
faster or I have slowed down even more than usual. Although a
5-2 loss to open it was our old tricks with little support
being provided to "5 hole Joe" back between the
pipes. Our newbies filled in nicely but may be wondering what
they signed themselves up for. Welcome boys. Highlight of the
night was watching Billy try to lean out of the way from a
blast from the point. Sadly he leaned back as far as he could
and he was still poking out and was puck bitten. No truth to
the rumour that Billy was looking for some rookie to rub him
down in the shower. Next up white, rumour has it the ghost
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"CANS" White
With plenty of space in the locker room and many empty
spaces on the bench it was a certainty team Blue would get
lots of ice time for all with only 6 forwards, 3 D and "5
hole" in the net. At the other end of the rink it
was standing room only for team White who dressed 18 skaters
and a goalie. Using a slow warm up, so as not to burn out, Big
Blue elected to play cautious and capitalize on turnovers and
use slow line changes and dump the puck and fake injury and...
White fell for it we had 'em in our sights. After
opening the game by going up 1-0 things were looking good but
everyone was waiting for the roof to cave in. 2-2 after
2 periods and there was still a feeling that White was going
to light it up. Our new backstop kept us in there and
slowly Big Blue worked its way to a 5-2 lead after Nelson's
empty netter. A team game all around but special mention
goes out to Rob Canning who netted the "hat" and
carried the team on his back throughout the game.
Great game boys, the chips were down and we showed White what
we are made of. Hopefully we didn't blow the load for
the year! Happy Thanksgiving. |
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