Over 30 Hockey League

Superbowl Squares

Last week the League Director’s henchmen pulled the numbers for the Super Bowl LX squares.  The were no bribes or shenanigans during the process as witnessed by the league’s “All-Time Winningest Raffle Winner” Ray Dow.

Good luck to all those that participated… and Go Patriots!!

Upcoming February

Reminder that not this weekend… but next weekend is the first of two “Double Header Weekends” for the Spring 2026 Season, so please plan accordingly.

Registration balances are due February 21^st … please stop by the Accounts Receivable Office “aka” the registration table to pay your balance (unless you already paid in full)

Look for another “Give Back to the Players”  with (2) prize packs, each with two tickets to a Bruins game courtesy of Lee Nogler and Ed Nigro.

Reminder: The second third of the season starts today… Did you hear that for the players on The Revolution?  You are 0-5 for the first third… unless you too are going for the second “Perfect Season” and “Team Perfection II”

Unexpected Scorer

Jim Barber scored 2-goals last week to continue his goal scoring streak at 3-weeks with (4-goals) but he was seen hobbling around after with a lower body injury.  He’s listed on this weeks IR report as “Questionable”.

Jim’s injury was probably a result of trying to carry his team as he leads The Revolution with 4-goals.  With one-third of the season gone... Players (and goal scores) like Manny Nunes (0) and Dan Poirier Sr (0) need to step up for the second third of the season as the Revolution needs to score a lot more goals to win games.

In fact, data shows that Colleen O’Connell is just 1-point behind Manny in team scoring and she hasn’t played a single game yet this season.

Under Par

Another week… another bunch if assists and nothing in the “Goals” column on the scoring sheet for Mike Duggan.  As predicted too… he had a breakaway on Scotty Rosato and once again “to the victor goes the spoils” … with Scotty being the “victor”, and “spoiling” Mike’s reputation as a top “goal scorer” in the league.

With 1/3 of the season officially gone, “Poopsie” should have 6-goals to stay on par with 6-goals (per each third of the season).

Now the mighty “Doo-gan” needs to target 9-goals in the next 5-games to get back on pace for 18-goals on the season.  Mike is already saying he looks good in pink… but do you really want to be a failure, like so many failures before you?

Finally…

Alex Leone is making a pitch for another batch of Kanes donuts… but sorry Alex, no repeat winners for the monthly Kane’s Donuts Senior Citizen (60+) Award .

Alex has been playing solid defense for his “brothers in blue” and “finally…” scored his first goal as a Tommy Gun… and it only took 19-games.

“The Year of the Shorty”

For the Chinese, February 7, 2026 marks the “Year of the Horse”… but for the Over-30 League it’s the “Year of the Shorty”.

Once again, the only 90-seconds of powerplay results in another shorthanded goal, rather than the intended powerplay goal as Rob Sheridan put on a master class on “How to score top corner while shorthanded”.

With so many shorthanded goals since we instituted the 1-½ minute powerplay… the league will discuss over the summer meetings if a penalized player should be credited with the assist on a shorthanded goal.

New “Hat-Trick”

Although they lost, a Poo Bear player who had a two-goal performance in their 5-3 loss to Cam-A-Lot was Todd Bryson.

Todd showed up with another Sign Art box filled with “unsanctioned” championship apparel for his fellow champions… courtesy of two rogue players.

Donning a “Poo Bears Championship Hat” the league’s official apparel designer had 2-goals… for the first ever “Championship Hat-Trick” when you score two goals instead of three while wearing a brand-new brown championship hat.

 It’s just too bad that Cam-A-Lot sandwiched 4-goals in between Todd’s efforts.

Goods for Goodwin

Don’t look now, but Gary “Stonehands” Goodwin is leading his team in scoring with 5-points… as they sit in the #2 spot in the standings.

With Lee Nogler and Brian Pollinger cheering on (and watching the Bruins lose) at the Tampa Bay Stadium Series Game… it was up to Gary to lead the way once again with his 2-goal performance.

Wearing his black bucket to get ready for the upcoming NBHL Legends Division this spring, the “Great Gar-zoo” combines his style of hockey that includes: Speed (with no breaks), Intimidation and his Baseball Style (hand/eye) coordination that is used for both scoring and chopping, all of which helped him win the Dick’s Sporting Goods Player of the Week Award.

Comeback Player

Jon Brown is making a pitch to the league’s awards voters for the “Comeback Player of the Year” with another solid performance last week.

Jon’s cracked the “Top-3” in scoring and has his team on the top of the standings.  His presence has also jump-started Gino Tammaro’s points production, prior to his all expenses paid “Deep Sea Fishing Trip” gift from Don Angelo.

Jon’s return sent Kevin Wilson to Tommy Guns to replace Johnny Mastrocola… so it was a series of upgrades for both teams involved.

Mr Pink

Mark “Mr Pink” Stickney scores his only team’s goal by going old school and using the powerplay 1-½ minutes for what it was meant for… Scoring powerplay goals!

Thankfully for Mark, he’s already failed his challenge and won’t be wearing that pink warm-up jersey for long.  According to some early calculations and bets all over town with the ALD Mike Naczas, “Naztradamas” is predicting that Mark will be out of that jersey come September 2026, and “Naz” will be $40 richer in April.

The Domfather

Congratulations to Dominic DeFrancisco and his wife Christine as they welcomed their new daughter Kaylah and baby sister to DJ to the DeFrancisco family.

Dom marked the occasion with an assist on their only goal of the game and a 3-1 loss to the only “HOT” team in the standings.

Now the “Domfather” must commit to his growing family that he won’t be smashing and tossing $100+ sticks, as the diapers and formula budget just went up, and the hockey budget was “slashed” by Christine.

Congrats to Dom… and congrats to the Referee’s, Dom should be a new gentler man now, as the father of a baby girl.  He can’t go smashing sticks at hockey and then come home to see Kaylah wearing a “Daddy’s Little Girl” 1-piece.