3 out of 4 Referees… Recommend?
If 9 out of 10 Dentists recommend Crest tooth paste… than 3 out of 4 Referees recommend that the penalty against Sergio Costa was not actually a penalty. The one lone holdout was Referee George “There’s no gray area” Hodgdon.
We’re not sure if it was a clearing attempt (or a pass) to Sergio from his own defenseman… but the waist high pass/clearing attempt hit Sergio in the hand and deflected into the screen, to which George immediately signaled for a penalty.
75% of the Referees polled said they would not have made that call because it was not a deliberate distinct throwing motion. So thanks to George that penalty is now on Sergio’s permanent record.
New Sherriff in town
There’s a new Sherriff in town… and his name in “not” Reggie Hammond it’s Mike O’Neil.
For the second straight week Mike has shown the goalies who’s the boss when it comes to breakaways. Fresh off his Week #11 “Five Guys Award” it was Mike’s turn to show the only goalie who posted two shutouts this season who’s the king of breakaways.
Mike’s goal was reminisce of Billy Abcunas’ goal last season against Billy Gardyski Jr… where Mike broke in from left to right on fellow Week #11 “Player of the Week” Scotty Rosato. Mike waited patiently for Scotty to lie down and play dead while he picked the top corner with pinpoint accuracy.
It’s too bad the goal and effort were in vein as they went on to lose 5-4 in a game that would have given Island of Misfit Toys some breathing room in the playoff hunt (if) they could have pulled out a win.
Play of the game
John Mastrocola and Luigi Derenzes combined for one of the quickest goals of the game. First Luigi’s defensiveness had him breaking up a play in the offensive zone before stripping the ball and rushing in on an offensive threat. Luigi then fired a precision pass to a streaking Johnny who was cutting across the goalie crease, and with a distinct “tipping” motion… tipped Luigi’s laser beam pass top shelf where Billy Gardyski Sr keeps the Samoas Girl Scout Cookies hidden from the rest of the Gardyski family.
New Slogan for Jamie Kehoe
When we started this season we coined the phrase “Drive for Five” in regards to Jamie Kehoe’s quest for his fifth straight championship. With the lost last week and only 3-points from the basement we are re-thinking a new phrase… “Drive to Stay Alive” otherwise their playoff hopes are “Dead.”
Clash of the Titans
#1 vs #2 are swapping places again… in a battle dubbed “Clash of the Titans” and what some believe is a sneak preview of the Week #17 game. Going into their last regular season meeting Labatt Blues (#1) vs HABitual Complainers (#2) and also the League’s Leading Scorers; Shawn Miville (#1) vs Dominic DeFrancisco (#2)
Both teams have posted 13-points and both teams have tallied 37-Goals so far this season. With each team winning one game each, of their first two meetings… so it was only fitting that their 3rd and final regular season rubber match came down to overtime.
Two out of the three meetings had Labatt Blues going up 2-0 only to lose 3-2 and their second meeting had Billy Gardynsky Jr blanking and shutting off the switch to the Portuguese Power.
Lastly Shawn Miville (4g-2a) edged out Dominic DeFranciso (3g-2a) and both teams have learned who they need to focus on and game plan for should they meet in the playoffs
You can’t handle the “tooth”
First we open with a joke;
Question: What did the Judge say to the Dentist?
Answer: Do you swear to pull the tooth, the whole tooth and nothing but the tooth?
For Jim Barber he can’t handle the “tooth”… as it seems someone was sidelined from last week’s Clash of the Titans game for a wisdom tooth extraction. He had an appointment was last Friday at “Tooth-hurty” in the afternoon to extract ¼ of his wisdom.
We reached to Jim for a comment on his “IR” report… and he assures us that he was fine to play, but facing Gary “Freight train” Goodwin the over/under was high that Gary would reopen the freshly stitched jawbone… and his prediction was not too far fetch as Gary’s “Crush first and ask questions later” style of play left Tony Medeiros lying on the dek gasping for air nursing some crushed ribs late in the 3rd period.
#1 Doorman
Jay Carrien the #1defenseman became the #1 Doorman for HABitual Complainers. Sidelined with a lower body injury, Jay teamed up with Captain Jim “The Tooth Fairy” Barber to open doors, cheer and high-five the able players for the Habs who played one of the best game of the season against Labatt Blues.
Unsung Hero
This was a breakout week for Steve Medeiros of HABitual Comaplainers. Not only did Steve win last weeks “Five Guys Player of the Week” Award… but he won it for the right reasons.
Steve had several defensive break-ups… guarded the blue line and kept several balls in the offensive zone, and lastly Steve was seen multiple times jumping up into the offense and assisting on their first goal of the game.
Fellow teammate Dominic DeFransico won top honors with the Dunkin Donuts “Player of the Week”… so it seems that finally the nominations and voting was 100% accurate last week.
Thanksgiving Awards
With Gary Goodwin winning a Turkey Award… for who knows why? Maybe because Gary is on the verge a double digit points season. If Gary was a candidate and recipient for a fictional award such as the "2015 Director’s Choice Award"… we thought what other nonsensical awards could we present for Thanksgiving.
First-up… You can’t have Turkey without the stuffing so congratulation Pat Pirone on winning the first ever “Stove Top’s Stuffing Award”. Pat wins for his continuous effort to “Stuff” a goal in… even after the whistle blows.
“Shimp Cocktail Award” – Serious do we have to even name the names. Its low lying fruit to joke about both “munchkins” Johnny and Tony Mastrocola, but since it’s a Cocktail award we need to add another shrimp George Medeiros into the Cocktail sauce.
The “Tylenol PM Tryptophan Award” goes to timekeeper Don… It’s about time Don gets an Over-30 Award and since most players can agree it looks like Don is half asleep in the timekeepers box.
Don wanted to take this time to thank… Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz (Don wake up)… Zzzzzzzzzz (Pssst Don)… Zzzzzzzzz. Oh well just pretend he pointed at the sky and "Thanked God" like Big Papi after a homerun.
Cranberries (sounds like Crabby) and it reminds me of crabby old people, so this year’s “Ocean Spray Cranberry Sauce Award” goes to Bill and Kellie Abcunas for constantly chasing the kids away. They say it’s for “insurance reasons”, but we think it’s because they are not paying $240 to be upstairs.
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