Over 30 Hockey League

Opps Part 1
Welcome to the Over-30 League Jim Giguiere.., and more importantly welcome to the Forum Newsletter.

This is our part of the broadcast when we get to highlight a player’s performance in both “Highlights”.., and in your case the “Lowlights”.

During last week’s opening game Jim sent a clearing attempt pass right onto the stick of the opposing defenseman Mike “Messin’ with Sasquatch” Surette.

I know what you’re thinking.., “Did Mike ice it?”   No he couldn’t ice it because he was already in the offensive zone.

What he did was, taking Jim’s screw up and sending a beautiful pass to Joe Carlton who buried the biscuit to start the weekends scoring.

So see Mike be patient with the ball and good things will happen.., don’t just try to peel it and eat it.

Opps Part 2
Not to be outdone.., but Dave Costa who is typically pretty calm, cool and collected with the ball.., coughed up a beauty to Gino Tammaro.., who stole Dave’s errant pass in the offensive zone and streaked full steam (Like an East Boston kid being chased by the cops) into the other offensive zone barreling down on Goaltender Jeff Deharo to bury a beautiful (untouched) breakaway goal.

If Jason Carrien had been present… he would have said to Dave Costa “Booo… Booo this man!”… But since Jay was attending Bailey Zappe’s Patriots debut in Green Bay last week, let’s take that opportunity here to “Booo that man” in the forum…. “BOOOOOO!!!”

Trying Something?
Captain’s Mutiny is on a collision course to a winless season.  So what do you do when your short on defense.., you experiment.

Last week Captain Matty Iannello instructed the deckhands that Marty Makarewicz was going to drop back on defense.  We here in the bleachers didn’t agree with that move.

Marty is a Pony.., he’s a runner.  Sure putting him on defense won’t hurt you because he’s also a good hockey player.., but you penned up a Pony that should have been out on the range running down plays and making offensive things happen.

New 2023 Award
Hey Rob Sheridan.., thanks for the “2023 MISI MVP Award” and you owe Matty Iannello $14 bucks for the Mylec Airflow that you disintegrated on the face off.

Maybe if you play in the 2023 MISI League (next summer) you can win that autographed blade back as it’s signed by “The Great One” himself.  It’s a highly coveted award.

Rob Sheridan “2023 MISI Season MVP”???

Power-ful
Congratulation Derrick Power on your first Over-30 Hat trick.  Derrick was 3-for-3 with 100% shooting percentage.., of the shots then went on net (because) one of Derricks shots looked like it came out flying out the end of a Jai alai Stick and into the corner.

Derrick scored his own version of a “He-man Hat Trick”… 3-goals, off 3-shots, in 3-periods.

+1
Inspiration comes in many forms… And one of those forms is actually “The Forum”

Last week’s edition we told Gary Goodwin.., you need to come out of the double header weekend with at least one goal and Gary delivered.

Now he has to score 5-goals in 10-games.., so after a 1/3 of the challenge over. What is Gary’s odd of completing his 6-goal challenge?  50/50? 70/30?.., or more like 90/10 he fails.

Allstate
What was Rick Cassano complaining about when hit that Sequoia Tree aka Mike Surette while battling for the ball? 

Good thing Ricky had safe diver points from Allstate for wearing his helmet.., otherwise he could have been totaled in that collision.

“McIcing”

Congratulation Dale McIsaac on your first Over-30 Hat trick.  Dale looked like he graduated from the Nick Romano of “Shoot from any angle school”.  The reigning 2022 MISI MVP for goalie… is now looking like the Captain’s Mutiny scoring MVP with his team leading 4-goals.

However not to let his ego get to big… Dale is becoming the new Mike Surette of icing for Matty’s team.  If Dale keeps icing at the same pace as Mike.. icing will now be called “McIcing”

Shit Goal
If you ever wanted the definition of a “Shit Goal” we’ll give you one.

Up 4-1 and in somewhat of control.., Captain’s Mutiny was on their way to their first win.., that is until the tides turned and Joe “Guido” Conary let up a “Shit Goal” to Derek Donegan just 4-seconds after giving up the 4-2 goal.

To add insult to injury it was off the ensuing center-ice faceoff draw that Nick Romano won cleanly to Derek who ripped a shot from 10-feet inside his own zone that went off the tip of “Guido’s” glove hand and in to make it 4-3.

We are still looking into the Dracut Dek Hockey connections to see if there was any collusion between the two.., because that was a “Shit Goal” and the deflated Captain’s Mutiny subsequently went on to loose just 35-seconds into OT. 

But.., Congratulations Captain’s Mutiny you’re on the board with 1-point and only 4-points out of 4^th place.., but your still “Ice-Cold” in the standings.

Protest?
The paperwork filed by newly appointed Captain Angelo De Luca for last week’s protest has been withdrawn after their 5-4 win in overtime.

It seems the Italian forwards were a little nervous playing against the Portuguese Duo of Elder Lopes and fill-in player Dave Costa.

Lee looks a lot bigger in person… But even “Little” George Medeiros towers over Lee in this photo.

One last question to the stats and photography editor:  “When did we start giving out scratch tickets for the #2 Star?” ~ Take you time and go fix it!

L-XXL
Nice going Todd Bryson you turned Dominic DeFrancisco’s #8 jersey from an “L” to a “XXL” and possibly tainted his mojo in the process.

Last week we were watching the Roadrunners game and started thinking… “Why is Todd wearing a “C””?  Since he controls the shirt order… did he have a “C” printed on his jersey and deputized himself as a captain?

Then we saw the number... and how tight it was… and now Dominic has an “XXL” #8

Unbroken
There goes the last bid for an undefeated season.  With Justice League’s loss (Opps.. sorry their 5-0 blowout!) at the hands of the Roadrunners, no Over-30 team has ever gone undefeated.  So we’ll try again in January 2023 (…See you then)

New Guy
Congratulation Steve Taddonio who must have read the goalie piece in the forum about the first “official” shutout still being up for grabs.

Steve stopped all 27-shots from the Justice League (including 6-shots) from Ray “The Boss” Nickerson.  Sorry Ray in a 5-0 loss we can’t award you any phantom assists.

Steve even managed to win himself “Goalie Lucky Save of the Week” Award after denying Derrick Power dead on in the high slot on a point-blank scoring chance.