Over 30 Hockey League

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This week’s big announcement is we are putting together the 2nd “Over-30 Hockey League Golf Tournament” fundraising event for the Over-30 Players that we are appropriately calling “Giving Back on the Greens”

Date: Monday May 13, 2024

Place: The Meadow at Peabody - 80 Granite Street Peabody MA, 01960

Cost: 160.00 per player ($640 per team) paid by Venmo.

Max Golfers: 72-players (First-come, first-serve with Payment)

Start Time: Golfers should arrive by 7:30 am for check in. 

Scamble Format  - Shotgun Start at 8:30

Additional Event details to follow… but sign-up ASAP!!!  We need a “Team Name” along with the (4) golfers names in the group.

Once again, Tony Medeiros has taken the lead for this event.., and will be accepting Venmo payments @tonyover30_golf – Reference your Team name and individual name when submitting payments.

If we have individual players signing up… we will pair you up accordingly.

This event will fill-up fast… so get you foursome together ASAP and sign-up!!

Stay tuned for additional updates.

Over-30 League Jamboree 

Saturday, May 4^th from 4:30 – 7:30 pm

(Round robin)

Sunday, May 5^th from 8:30 am - 2:30 pm

(Playoffs - New for 2024 - Everyone makes the playoffs)

$70 registration cost per player

(Paid up front and in full to guarantee a spot in the jamboree draft)

Pre-registration will take place during the Over-30 league games

Registration begins on March 16th and continues until April 13th 

48-players chosen from an open draft format

(If you are not chosen in the draft for this jamboree, your registration money will be refunded to you in full after the jamboree draft has taken place).

4-on-4 playing format (20-minute games)

6-teams (Assigned Captains drafting their own teams)

8-players per team (4-forwards, 3-defensemen and 1-goalie) 

Included in the registration cost will be a Team shirt and 3-games guaranteed.

Jackets to the championship team, individual awards

Gatorade at check-in (and more).

All proceeds will benefit the Over-30 League and its players for our "Season of Giving Back"

Super Saturday

This past Tuesday, Massachusetts Voters took to the polls to cast their votes on “Super Tuesday”…, The Over-30 League is going to have its own “Super Saturday(s)” coming up…, as once again it’s time to vote for the 2023-2024 Mylec Player of the Year (as voted on by their peers).

The one new twist for 2023-2024 is… We are having the (6) Captains nominate (2) players from their teams to be represented on the ballot.  We will have 12-nominees in total and will be using the “Rank Choice” voting method to prevent ballot harvesting (and mail-in voting) that will help prevent voter fraud.

More to follow… Oh, and Jamie Kehoe, since you only played (4) games this season so far…, let us know if you need help picking your two nominees.

#4 Inductee

Congratulations #9 Scott “The Pretender” Young on becoming the 4^th inductee to the Over-30 Hockey League Hall of Fame and the 1^st inductee into the “Builders” category.

Your inability “to finish” along with personal stats and accomplishments weren’t enough to get your #9 retired…, but your dedication and commitment were instrumental in building the foundation and fundamentals of the Over-30 League.

Scotty was (and still is) an original board member and special advisor who always presented the players’ interest and perspective during some of the difficult decision-making processes with regards to rule changes, suspensions, and league policies.

Once again, congratulations “El Baby”… next up, we have (2) more inductees later this month.  These guys are a blast from the past…. So, stay tuned!

Doubleheader Look Back

The last of the doubleheader weekends are over, so let’s take a look back and see who the doubleheader weekend winners were…, and it wouldn’t be a forum if we didn’t take a shot at the weekend losers too.

No surprises here…, Black Magic and Marooned were the big winners with each of them taking home 4-points during their back-to-back wins.

Black Magic Captain Dominic DeFrancisco started both games with a couple of first goal(s) of the game at almost the exact same time.  Dom scored his first of two unassisted goals on Saturday at 8:32 in the 1^st period…, and then again another (unassisted goal) to start the scoring on Sunday at 8:44 in the first period.   You reading this White Lies?  To prevent an early deficit make sure someone is covering Dom between 8:59 and 7:59 in the 1^st period. 

Patrick “Fishbowl” Spencer also had a solid weekend for black…, scoring 2-goals and added an assist during his team’s 10-goal weekend performance.

We added an “A” to Paul Firicano’s jersey to replace Jason Glista’s missing “A” as Jason, who went down early (game one) last season (for both seasons) with a lower body injury.  Can we petition the league to add a “C” to Mike Duggan’s shirt…, as this is really “his” team with the absence of Jamie Kehoe.

Mike continues to dominate for Marooned and even started to pile up the assists bringing his total to 9-assists.  More on his 30-goal quest later.

You can’t have big winners…, without big losers, and unfortunately for the Tealsters Union that was them…, dropping both games to running time.  It was a good weekend to shoot on Steve Taddonio as he’s skydiving down the leaderboard with 39-goals against.

The Sandbaggers also dropped both of their weekend bouts…, as they only managed to score 3-goals.  It might be time to move that ringer of a goal scorer Mike “Got me an assist on Sunday’ Naczas to left wing.  He’s 1-for-1 on rushing into the offensive zone and scoring a goal this season.

AL"D"?

Did you all see the “new” refined and professional looking “ALD?”

Judging by the picture…, we might have solved the riddle of what the “D” stands for.

30-Watch

Mike Duggan added 4-goals over the weekend in his quest for 30-goals.  Mike ended the doubleheader weekend with 18-goals (12-shy of 30) and 17-shy of the record by Joe Shannon (35-goals).

This weekend he’s playing against fill-in goalie Jake Deehan for Royal Family.

Hey Ray Nickerson, this might be a good opportunity to slip Jake a couple of bucks to let “Do-ggan” bury 4 or 5 goals… and get yourself some easy assists this week.

Oh, and Jake…, don’t worry about your GAA or even the win…, everyone makes the playoffs, plus you have no official stats anyway.  Your only job is to fake it and let Mike score at will.

100%

Wayne Gretsky coined the motivational quote: "You miss 100% of the shots.., you don't take."…, Despite scoring 3-goals over the weekend, Dave Norton was on pace to “Miss 100% of the shots.., he did take.”

One of the leagues new young guns…, “Norty” added a bunch of marks of his own to the backboards, glass panels and a few rafter smudges. 

Thankfully the laws of averages worked in his favor…, shoot enough times and some are bound to go in.   Just ask Mike Naczas who was 1-for-1 with a 100% shooting average last Saturday.

On Strike

Paging “Dr Rob”… “Dr Rob Sheridan”

Rob picked the wrong weekend to take off…, with no inspiration and leadership the inmates spent the weekend running the Asylum, and they trashed the place too.

Rob left the team just 1-point out of first place…, and when he returns 14-days later they are now 5-points from the top, but also 3-points from the basement.

It looked like the Tealsters Union led by Union President Steve Taddonio went on strike over the weekend as they only managed to score 2-goals while “giving up” 13-goals. 

Both days they helped the league keep pace with game times, as they did their part to keep the games moving along with the aid of “running time.”

This week look for the union members to drop their picket signs and get back to work playing a better game against the Sandbaggers, who is another “cold” and struggling team coming out of last weekend.

Viewer Submissions

Two weeks ago… we asked… “What’s Todd Doing?”

This week, we take a look at the Tealsters Union winger Ron Aquino and his viewer submission photo.

For 100-points… and a large pizza from Regina’s, if you can guess;

“What’s Ron Doing?”

Your Choices are:

• Digging for Over-30 points.
• Searching for Pineapples.
• Fulfilling his court ordered community service.
• Playing the role of the Pied Piper.

Shady Acres 

This week we wanted to highlight all of the Over-60 players that are in bed by 7:30PM on Friday and already had dinner by 3:30PM on Saturday.

It is called the Over-30 League..., but 16-players in the league have now doubled that number.

3-teams have (2) Over-60 players, 2-teams have (3) Over-60 players, and 1-team has (4) Over-60 players.  So, you might ask yourself, how come the league doesn’t spread out the “Senior Citizens” evenly across the board. 

The answer is simple:  The draft is not based on age and there is no calculated team age average…, it’s based on balancing the talent and look at the stats below; some of our “Seasoned” veterans are putting up better numbers then other players in their 40’s & 50’s. 

Look and see how you compare to our elderly veterans.

Unsolved Mysteries

We’ve all grew up seeing it… The Patterson-Gimlin Film of the 1967 footage of Bigfoot walking through the woods.

For the last 56-years people have been trying to authenticate or debunk the footage and the rumors that a Sasquatch really exists.

We have newly discovered and much clearer photos from a New Hampshire hiker who caught images of a giant upright defenseman in his natural habitat.

Turns out Mike “Messin with Sasquatch” Surette likes to spend his weekends in the mountains being one with the cold as he works on perfecting his “icing” skills.

Just remember one thing Mike.., your sitting at 9-points (3-goals, 6-assist) and just 3-points from your “All-time” career high 12-points (5-goals, 7-assists)…, so before you send another “Suretting” out of the zone…,  look for those players that will (like Naz says) “Get you the assist too”

Wasted Win

The players have started a petition to ban Pat Pirone from being eligible for future “FREE” Spring Season raffles.

“Florida” Pat has only played (2) of the (9) games played so far this season. 

He was the winner of the 2024 “FREE” Spring Season… and ironically, he wasn’t present for that drawing either.

With no Over-30 receipt…, good luck writing off your hockey expenses on April 15^th.

Player Rankings

Last week we grabbed a fistful of catnip and asked Sinjin to rank our Over-30 players.

Sinjin took a look at each player, their current and previous career stats, along with their playing skills, “cat-like” agility and winning percentage to calculate their “current” rankings.

Stacked Player – Somone who is a marquee player, with skills and has the ability to take over a game and we can build a team around them.

Bubble Player – Someone who has above average skills and “could” make the jump up to become a household name and be a weekly impact player.  To be a “Bubble” player you need to possess the skills to be able to jump up to a “Stacked” Player status level.

Without the ability to jump up to a “Stacked” status…, you cannot be on the “Bubble.”

Brown Baggers – Someone who “could” make the jump up to become a “Bubble” player, but never a “Stacked” player…, so if you can’t possess the skills to be a “Stacked" player…, then you cannot become a “Bubble” player.

Sure, you used to be a “Stacked” or a “Bubble” player once in your playing days... but that was yesterday (and yesterday’s gone).  So go pack your ham sandwich and the rest of your lunch in a brown bag and enjoy what’s left of your playing days.

New Awards

Thank you to the unofficial Over-30 Players Union President Jason Carrien..., as once again he’s taking a forum piece to new levels.