Over 30 Hockey League

To all players in the Over-30 League:

This is a reminder that the league has a “Zero Tolerance Policy” in effect. When you participate in the league you acknowledge that it’s your responsibility to be respectful of all players, referees, scorekeepers, administrative support individuals and the facilities.

You are responsible for your actions, stick, and emotions at all times. The following are (some) examples of actions that will not be tolerated (along with minimum possible suspensions) and will lead to disciplinary action up to and including suspension along with possible expulsion from the league:

• Verbal abuse of referees, players, scorekeepers and league administrators (misconduct, game misconduct, minimum of 1-2 games suspended)
• Any physical contact with a referee, timer or administrator inside or outside the facility (misconduct, game misconduct, minimum of 2-3 games suspended)
• Throwing or slamming of sticks (minimum of unsportsmanlike conduct, misconduct or game misconduct and possible suspension)
• Defacing or damaging the facilities (minimum of misconduct, game misconduct and suspension)
• Abuse of facilities (minimum of game misconduct, 2-3 games suspended)
• Any intent to injure occurrences (minimum of match penalty, game misconduct and suspension)

All incidents are reviewed by the League Director with input from the Board of Directors and all decisions are final. There is no appeals process.

Sincerely,

Over-30 Board of Directors

This week’s Dunkin Donut winner goes to Jason Carrien of Team Cherry.  Normally, the weekly awards are not presented to repeat winners during the season; however, we are making an exemption in this case. The NFL had Joe Namath.  The NHL had Mark Messier.  Two icons of their sports who publically guaranteed their respective teams would win championships and delivered on their promises. Earlier this season, Jason made a bold public guarantee that his team would qualify for the playoffs or he would retire.  Mission accomplished!  Jason set the tempo for his team by setting up the game’s first goal, playing shut down defense and informed the Over-30’s AARP former players group that he will not be joining them anytime soon.

This week’s Five Guys award winner goes to Naz of Blues Brothers.  It only took 4 years and close to 50 regular season games and a few playoffs games, but Naz finally scored his first goal in four years dating back to the 2014 season.  With his team trailing by two goals in the second period, Naz jumped up into the offense and jammed home the rebound off a scramble out front to temporarily get his team back into the game.  In addition, with his team playing short-handed, Naz played some major minutes on defense.