Over 30 Hockey League

Dinner Time

Dinner is served… The League sponsored “Foodie Event” is going down today… Here’s what’s on the menu.

And the winner is…

Listen for your name to be called (pre-games) as this week the League Director and his assistant will be passing out some of the 2026 Spring Season Awards.  The only lock-pick of the week is Mike Duggan for Leading Scorer (34-points) with a 7-point lead over his linemate Patrick Spencer (27-points) and a 10-point lead over 3^rd place Dominic DeFrancisco (24-points). 

Unfortunately, Mike will have to wait one more week to get his Lucite award, just in case Pat has an 8-point game without “Poopsie” getting a single point… or Dominic having the first ever 11-point game while Scotty Rosato and The Revolution shutout Tommy Guns.

So, congratulations to Mike Duggan our “2026 Spring Leader Scorer”… question is, will he get that 1-goal he needs to complete his “Pink shirt Challenge” or is Mark Stickney going to continue to wear it this fall?

2026 Players Jamboree

The 2026 Players Jamboree is on schedule with 6-teams.  The draft is going to be held at an undisclosed location with the 6-Captains: Angelo “Kato” De Luca, Dominic “The Dom Father” DeFrancisco, Mike “Poopsie” Duggan, Tommy “Mr. USA” Gallagher, Tony “The Portuguese Bread Truck” Medeiros and Elder “Elderberry” Lopes.

This is your last regular season game to impress your potential future captains (or like Mike Naczas) beg to be picked in an earlier round of the draft (and before) Jim Barber.

It should also be noted that this year Jim Barber bagged a couple of elephants for the Jamboree… a couple of 1^st rounders (or should be, if you know who they are).

2026 Golf Day

The Over-30 Hockey League is once again sponsoring and hosting our annual “Drive & Putt for Paul” 2026 Golf Day Event.  This is always a sold-out event, so get your foursome together and register with Tony Medeiros ASAP!!

Monday May 11^th - Billerica Country Club

7:30 Check-In with an 8:30 Shotgun Start

$165 Per Team - $450 to sponsor a hole.  All Proceeds benefit the Paul Correia Fund

Food: Morning Coffee & Donuts, followed by lunch in the clubhouse.

The year look for the defending champs Timmy “Tito” Burke with “Team Foot Wedge” to defend their title against their archrivals Mike Naczas with “Gimmie Girls”

Venmo Available… Please note your name and foursome

Last “Poo Puns” 2026

To use the last Poo Bears “Puns of the season”… The Poo Bears “Kicked the Shit out of the Revolution 6-1” for their final regular season meeting.  It’s not like the Poo Bears played spectacular without their leaders Dave Costa and Rob Sheridan… It’s just The Revolution “Stunk it up and played like shit”

Rick Cassano played like “His Shit don’t stink” with his 5-point game (2-goals & 2-assists) from someone who basically should win the “Not on the radar” Award … as he’s been a regular season ghost these past two seasons.

Meanwhile Mike Naczas is up to his knees in “Shitty Assists” as somehow (and we don’t know how) he’s only 1-point away from tying the top spot on the leaderboard… and 2-points away from becoming the leader, and he’s had (2) 3-point games in recent weeks.

Can all of this come full circle as the defending champs and their unsanctioned “Shitty Championship Hats” look to repeat as champs without their captain Dave Costa who’s out for the season with his “Crappy Medical Condition”.

Assist Tricks

Both Mike Naczas and Leo Trombley had a couple of “Assist Tricks” as they both used last Saturday’s bout to pad their stats with 3-assists (each) before the season ends.

Lets not forget these two stepped up bigtime in the absence of their leaders… and lets also not forget that (if) the Poo Bears get to the finals, and Leo’s wife Adina shows up… bet the Farm, the House, and the kids college funds on a Poo Bears victory as she is “Perfect” like the Roadrunners in watching Championship games.

Revolting Revolution

Without their leading scorer (no not Jim Barber)… were talking about Scotty Daniliuk who’s been MIA on IR for the past few weeks, The Revolution have been revolting.

They have one last game to, not get out of the basement… as they own the #6 seed for the playoffs.  But they do have one last week to play as a team and get ready to do battle in the playoffs, whereas you know…  “Anything is Possible!!!” ~ Kevin Garnett

They picked up a late replacement and a #1 defenseman in Derek Donnegan, and goaltender Scotty Rosato is more than capable of stealing games… The Revolutions #1 priority is to score goals and gel as a team before heading into battle next week.

No #18 Goal

Tommy Guns was missing only 1-player last week… and ended up only scoring 1-goal, because that said player was Mike “Poopsie” Duggan who had a prior family event.

As a result of Mike’s absence, Tommy Guns only scored 1-goal (not #18) as their Captain Tommy Gallagher refused to be shut out by the current #1 Seed, First Responders.

We sure hope that “Poopsie’s” one and only goal required for completing the challenge doesn’t come down to a breakaway vs his nemesis Scotty Rosato for #18.

Also, if you recall… The Revolution should use this image and #NeverForget

Dom-ination

Here’s a little Over-30 math problem for you… if 1+1=2.  Then what does 91+77=??

The answer is: 91+77=84

When you take Mike Duggan (91) + George Medeiros (77) = Dominic DeFrancisco (84). 

Dom is the league’s premier two-way player who has all the scoring talent of Mike, plus the never stopping (pain in the ass) tenacity of George.

Once again, Dom (1-goal, 2-assists) factored in three quarters of his teams scoring last week, and with the #1 Seed almost locked-up, and his goalie Dave Giusti locked-in… The First Responders are serious (but not perfect) contenders this April.

More Puns

Last week poor Alex Leone had a case of “Vanilla Nut Taps” delivered to him on defense… or if your still confused… He visited “The Capital of Thailand”.

Poor Alex got that feeling that every player dreads, as a lot of players don’t fully protect “The Family Jewels” and running with a “Nuts Colander” in their shorts is uncomfortable.

But like the saying goes “It’s better to have it and not need it… than need it and not have it” and Alex found out the latter to be true.

Third Time

They say the “Third time is the charm”… but for Capo-Zero the “third time” is another “third straight” loss (in overtime) for the once league leaders in the standings.

Angelo De Luca and company could play “Top Seed Spoiler” if they beat First Responders and flip-flop the Poo Bears back to the #1 seed (if the Poo Bears beat Cam-A-Lot).

A Fairytale Story

It’s basic goalie math… and with his overtime win last week, if you take Anthony Petrillo 34 GA (3.09 GAA) and remove his two worst games Tommy Guns (5-goals) and the First Responders beatdown of (9-goals) and replace those losses with a couple of (3-goal) games… “Ant” drops to about a 2.36 GAA and would be at the top of the heap in the goalie standings.

But of course, if Grandma had balls… she’d be called Grandpa, and you just can’t  wish away 14-goals… However, if the rumor is true that once (again) about the return of Cam Long, and Anthony plays like the 2.36 GAA goalie he’s capable of… then look for a storybook ending for the Cam-A-Lot fairytale.

Fishing with Fredo

With Capo-Zero missing their top winger Gino Tammaro… they are collectively hoping that Gino will make a return for the playoffs.

The league leader in “offsides”, Gino is the firepower and speed they need to make a run at “Capo-Uno” and get Angelo De Luca his fist championship as a captain.

This is the last call out in the forum for the players on Capo-Zero to enter the playoffs with one goal in mind… No, not a championship for you… a championship for “Don Angelo” and get his name of the tarnished list.

Otherwise, Angelo's and his captaincy might be going fishing with Fredo.

The T-1000

File this one under “You can’t kill him”… The Terminator T-1000

Once again rumors are swirling that Cam Long is once again trying to return to the lineup despite his nagging injury that has kept him on IR for 25-games going back the September 2025. 

Cam has only played 5-games in the past two season with (6-goals, 3-assists) and in his 5 games… he’s had better numbers some players that played the whole seasons.

With his third attempt at a return… Cam reminds us of this 1991 movie.

Top Spot Dreams?

Who would have ever thought that the ALD Mike Naczas in the absence of his leadership Dave Costa and Rob Sheridan that he would be just 1-point away from tying the #1 spot on the leaderboard and 2-points away from taking it from Brian “Yeaaah Cap!” Capodilupo.

Can “Naz” capture lightning in the bottle for a 3^rd time with another 3-assist game?

Will “Cappy” lay down and let “Naz” have a shot at the glory before he calls it a career… as he will never ever be this close to the #1 spot again?

Will “Naz” beat Jim Barber in their head-to-head wager (Points vs Goals)… it’s all going to be decided today between 5:30 and 7:30… tune in!