5 vs 5
Nothing like starting the weekend of “Over-30” hockey with an “Over-60” battle.
Last weekends opener between Black Magic and White Lies had the battle for the “Real #5” as “Hall of Fame Legend” Dan Broderick (#5) battled “A legend in his own mind” Bill Abcunas (#5).
The two 60-year olds battled “mano-a-mano”…. “cinco vs cinco” … in an elderly battle for the ball behind goaltender Sean Roach which resulted in the “Real #5” putting the “Wannabe #5” on his ass.
So, who won you ask? That depends if you know who the “Real #5” is.
New T-Shirt
We might have to print out another batch of T-shirts to mock our dear leader “Kim Jong Abcunas” after his vicious and intentional trip of the webmaster during the 3rd period with 5-minutes left to play in a 3-0 game.
We are in talks with the league apparel supplier to get a quote for a new batch of Bill bashing tee’s…, these ones will have the slogan:
“Have a nice trip… See you next fall.”
~Bill 3:15
It was nice to see the league referees (who are paid by the deep state)…, that they actually “saw it” and penalized their meal ticket for 1-minute.
Momentum Breakers
Nothing sucks more than giving up those dreaded last second goals of a period.
Forwards, Defenseman and Goalies… make sure you all know when it’s less than 45-seconds left to play in a period…, and your only assignment is to “save it” or get the ball safely out of the zone (preferably without icing it), as last week we had (4) last second goals with three of them occurring in the same game.
White Lies vs Black Magic had Dominic DeFrancisco scoring the first goal of the game with just 32 seconds left to play in the 1st period.
Without some of their top players Sean Roach and White Lies tried to hold off the current #1 seed..., but once again Black Magic ruined any momentum when Eric Fortin scored his second goal of the game with 5-seconds left to play in the 2nd period and that put the game out of reach with a 3-0 lead.
“Who the F#CK is Eric Fortin” you’re asking? We’ll address that later.
The 3rd and final last second goal of the White Lies vs Black Magic bout was not a momentum breaker…, it was even worse…, it was a shutout breaker.
Scotty Rosato was just 3-seconds away (1-Mississippi, 2-Mississippi, 3-Mississippi) from posting only the second shutout of the season. Ironically the one lonely goal he did give up…, was to the one guy that he doesn’t want to score…, and that is to the current pink shirt challenger George Medeiros.
Scotty may have just helped himself to wearing that pink warmup shirt for another season if George scores 2-more goals in the 4-games left this season.
The fourth “last seconds” goal of the day occurred when Mike Duggan buried his 21st goal thanks to Jake Deehan being summoned to the bench…, so “Do-ggan” could easily bury an ENG with 4-seconds left in the third. Nice job Jake…, just as we planned.
Player Equality
With all of the player absentees and injuries, the league has no choice but to use replacement scabs and hire sub-contractors to fill those voids.
Last week there was a lot of moaning and groaning about fill-in players and equal trade value, like the Patriots trading Mac Jones for a 6th round pick (that sounds about right)
Game 1: White Lies was missing their #1 scorer Dave Norton, their NBHL Rattler Rich Pelletier, their new hired gun Jose Silva, along with Todd Bryson and Alex Leone (who was a last-minute scratch) and in return they got Timmy “Tito” Burke.
To use a vodka comparison, it’s like drinking a bottle of “The Eye of the Dragon” vodka by Royal Dragon which is the most expensive vodka in the world at $5.5 million…, and then taking the empty bottle and filling it with “Tito’s” and re-gifting the bottle to a friend.
Does that mean that Dave “The Eye of the Dragon” Norton is the #1 player in the league…, we’ll let the voters decide.
Meanwhile Black Magic was missing Tony Medeiros, Patrick Spencer, Doug Sedille, Derrick Power, and Doug Morand…, and they get former “Perfectionist” Garvin Chan and Eric Fortin (who scores two goals… including the GWG)
“Who the F#CK is Eric Fortin” you’re asking again? To get the answer we need to play “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon”… or in this case “Two Degrees of Timmy Burke”
Timmy “Tito” Burke brought in Over-30 pledge Chris Torres to fill-in for Marooned. Chris Torres who will more than likely become a fully patched member in the 2024-2025 Draft, recommended that the league director take a look at his ice hockey friend Eric Fortin to also be a candidate for next years draft. These guys could be your replacements, so time to step up your games.
Game 1 Fill-ins (Advantage) Black Magic (but come on) would you suspect anything less from the handpicked “chosen ones”.
Game 2: Sandbaggers are missing their #1 scorer Paul Seqeuira, along with Dave Wilson, Eddie Chin, and Dave Giusti…, so it’s only fitting that they get a 6th round pick with Jim Barber and fill-in goaltender Mike Viera to help solidify another loss…, and their 3rd one in a row.
The Tealsters Union was only scheduled to miss Steve Iacoviello and Steve Taddonio…, but Ray Dow was a last minute “call in sick” from the parking lot. Steve was replaced with back-to-back goaltender Sean Roach who just lost 4-1.
Game 2 Fill-ins (Advantage) Tealsters Union, thanks to Sean Roach standing on his head as he only had to stop 25 of the 26-shots he faced from the Sandbaggers. Sean had 49-saves on 54-shots for the day…, but went 0-1 for his own team when it counts.
Game 3: Royal Family was missing (4) players on IR which included their team leader Angelo De Luca, along with former MVP Gino Tammaro, their NBHL Rattler(s) Elder Lopez and Mike O’Neill, and Gary Wurlitzer rounding out the IR list. Then you add in they were also without John Hines and Jeff Deharo… this was a loss waiting to happen.
So, the director stepped up his fill-in game and allowed (not one) but two #1 Draft picks to fill-in for the Royal Family. When was the last time you saw Rob Sheridan “fill-in” for another team. Then he added Jason Carrien to help protect fill-in goaltender Jake Deehan.
It almost seemed like the league director wanted to help the Royal Family beat Marooned who was missing their leader Jamie “MIA” Kehoe, Manny Nunes, and Johnny Mastrocola…, and got nothing in return (not even a 6th round pick)
Game 3 Fill-ins (Advantage) Marooned, as neither Rob or Jay did anything to standout…, and any team that has Mike Duggan on it (has the advantage anyway).
Tinnitus
The ringing in Rob Sheridan’s ears probably didn’t stop until Sunday morning…, and no, it wasn’t from a case of “tinnitus”…, it was from the 4-posts Rob rang during his game vs Sandbaggers.
We don’t have any official stats on the posts he rang while filling in for his second game…, but we do know this stat. Joe “Guido” Conary had more goals than Rob last week.
“Guido” showed “Fill-in” Rob how to bury a breakaway without hitting the post or the crossbar… good work “Guido” it was nice to see you score a goal for a change, rather than letting one in. Welcome back to the Over-30 League, too bad Jamie Kehoe missed your goal…, he would have been proud.
Magic Number (9)
Did you guys see any of them last week? 19… 20… and… 21-goals buried so far this season. With only 4-games left can Mike “Do-ggan” Duggan score 9-goals? Or with 11-assists on the season can he record 9-assists?
The magic number is (9) for Mike… 9-goals and/or 9-assists and here’s today’s odds and the road map to (9) based on the upcoming games:
Week #11 vs Sandbaggers (Dave Giusti) – 3-goals, 2-assists
Week #12 vs Black Magic (Scotty Rosato) – 1-goal, 2-assist
Week #13 vs Tealsters Union (Steve Taddonio) – 3-goals, 3-assists
Week #14 vs White Lies (Sean Roach) – 2-goals, 2-assists
Week #11 Betting Odds:
30-Goals Club -110
20/20 Club +200
Great Update
It was good to see Matty Iannello slowly walk up the stairs to take in the last game of the day. “The Great One” has a long road to recovery and with a little bit of luck he’ll be able to make his return and get those last 19-points to create and join the 1400-points club…, or we just make his retirement poster with 1381-points and call it a career.
Either way…, it was good to see the “All-time” leader hanging around the rink post open-heart surgery, but like anything written in the forum there is always a debate brewing and this one concerns Matty’s procedure.
As previously reported:
We wanted to pass along a Matty Iannello update…, one of our field reporters reached out to him for an official firsthand update. First, we are very lucky that this article is an update and not a memorial piece as the Over-30 Hockey League almost lost their “All-Time (Points, Goals & Assists)” Leader
According to Matty himself… this incident occurred during his procedure:
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