Our Apologies
Some weeks the league has boring games with minimal highlights and lowlights… Weeks where there is just not trash talk available.
Week #9 was one of those weeks where everything was just mehhh?
Week #9 Ketchup
Week #9 Lowlights: Top LOW story has to be what we are calling “RENT-a-loss Weekend”, whereas Billy Gardynski Sr filled in for both of the top (2) teams and successfully ensured both teams lost and preventing either team from clinching a playoff berth while prolonging Island of Misfit Toys’ chances of making it into the playoffs.
However, the elder Gardynski played one of his best games filling in for HABitual Complainers, despite the 4-3 Loss, Sr played good enough to give them a chance to beat Consigliere, but the HAB’s could not contain the speedy little Pisano Gino Tammaro who factored in every goal for them.
Sidenote: HABitual Complainers only (non-OT loss) was suffered without: Dominic “Franchise” DeFranciso, Jeff “League Leading Goalie” Deharo, Jason “Team USA” Glista, Steve “I’m taller than George” Medeiros, and Jason “I learned my lesson” Carrien. With that many players missing from the defending champion’s roster, they are not officially recognizing that loss and demand a rematch.
Week #9 Lowlights (Act 2): Billy Gardynski Sr filled in for his son it went from bad to worse as fellow chauffeur Nick Romano scored so many times on Sr that there was talk of them stopping at a tattoo parlor so (Sr) could get “Nick’s Bitch” carved into his short-side.
Week #9 Highlights: There are just two… Nick Romano and Gino Tammaro who both singled-handedly went on a scoring spree and was the main reason both their teams won.
There… there was your Week #9 Forum… now let’s move on.
What happened?
The team once accused (by one of their own) of playing with “No Heart” seemed to get a “Heart Transplant” and came alive last week in what is the first of many “Must WIN” games for Island of Misfit Toys.
The “Toy’s” jumped out to a commanding 3-0 lead and finished the period up 4-1… but then they let Broken Promises win the second period 3-1 to give Island of Misfit Toys just a slim 5-4 lead to hold on to going into the 3rd period.
Then it was the Mauro Colucciello show… Mauro tied the game with 7-minutes left to play in the 3rd, but the heroics were yet to come.
With just mere seconds left to play Mauro had a chance to be the hero (but) missed a wide open net when he pulled his shot wide right… however redemption is bitter sweet.
Unfortunately for Island of Misfit Toys in overtime BIG Mike Surette had to serve 90-seconds in the sin bin for tripping thus setting up redemption and a hero "goal of the game" as Mauro Colucciello buries a Game Winning Overtime Power Play Goal (8-Fantasy Points, Thank you!).
Whack Packer Goals
If this was the Over-30 Howard Stern Hockey League… It would be a week that featured goals from the Whack Pack.
For Howard he had “Crackhead” Bob, Gary “The Retard”, “High-Pitch” Eric, Fred “The Elephant Boy”, and Hank “The Angry Dwarf” that were part of a whole cast of notable nicknames.
For the Over-30 League… We have Tony “The Munchkin” Mastrocola and Umberto “Papa Smurf” Biancardi and both scored highlight worthy goals for their respective teams
Fitting Clinches
Two weeks ago the top two teams only needed a win (just two points) to clinch a playoff berth. However, they both “rented” a loss and couldn’t lock up their pending seeds.
Last week the top two titans meet for the second time. The first meeting had Labatt Blues beating Habitual Complainers 5-4 in OT… and like the first meeting it came down to overtime once again. This time there was no clear winner as it ended in a tie and what Ray Dow is calling one of the best games of the season.
However, with a tie and one-point a piece.., compiled with an Island of Misfit Toys overtime loss enabled the titans to punch their playoff dance card.
Mauro Colucciello and the rest of Broken Promises who broke the hearts of Island of Misfit Toys were also able to punch their ticket to the dance as well.
Island of Misfit Toys is not yet mathematically eliminated, but they are on life support and a priest is in the lobby waiting to administer last rights with their BIGGEST game of the dying season coming up against Consigliere.
WARNING: A loss this week for Island of Misfit Toys could have the players making tee times for the playoffs.
Sticks and Stones…
Sticks and Stones may break my bones… but withholding my jacket will never hurt me.
It seems the “League Director” and his sidekick “Assistant League Director” are trying to punish the Webmaster for not posting a forum last week by withholding his 7th Championship Jacket.
It’s Ok, because the Webmaster has (6) more at home… which is (1) more than the “League Director” and (2) more than the “Assistant League Director” have hanging in their closets. In fact with #7, the webmaster jumps into the top 10 of all time.
