Over 30 Hockey League

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Gold & Brown Medals

While Colleen O’Connell was in attendance and enjoying the USA Women’s Hockey Team winning the gold in Italy… her team was back home winning the “brown medal” with The Revolution’s second win of the season with a 4-3 victory over the Poo Bears.

Hopefully Colleen will return to the USA inspired to make another run to the playoffs with just 3-wins on the season… but sweep the playoffs like the 2022 Winters Season Captain’s Mutiny team that she was historically part of.

Still Streaking

The streak continues for Jim Barber… 6-games and 8-goals to extend his lead over Mike Naczas by 5-goals.

Jim and The Revolution narrowly beat the Poo Bears 4-3 but not before the captain almost jinxed the win… by announcing to the players on the bench “This is a good win, we needed this”… with 4-minutes left to play and up 4-1, just moments before Todd Bryson had something to say.

Three Amigos

We’re not sure if Todd Bryson heard Jim’s early victory speech or not… but Todd wasn’t going down without a fight.

Todd was one of the “Three Amigos” that took over the Poo Bears scoring.  Todd (2-goals, 1-assist) joined  Rob Sheridan (1-goal, 2-assists) and Pedro Fontes (2-assists) as the scorers for the Poo Bears. 

With Leo Trombley absent, he might have lost his top line spot to Todd… just like when Drew Bledsoe went down and was replaced by an unknown legend in the making.

Fountain of Youth

John Kelleher who is still sneaky good for his age… must have had a sip from the “Fountain of Youth” before last week’s game, as one of the league’s most senior veterans, he had a game to remember, when he (was) the offense for the First Responders.

John (2-goals, 1-assist) scored a beautiful goal on AJ Larabee as he patiently stick-handled just four feet in front of AJ waiting to pick his spot on him.  “Mr Market Basket” figured in all 3-goals for his teams win.

Our favorite comic Elder “Elderberry” Lopes also joined John on the scoring sheet with (1-goal, 2-asists) with his single goal being a blast for the GWG.  I know what your thinking, but “Elderberry” is famous for his delicious “Turnovers”… but make no mistake that Portuguese kid from Somerville can shoot too.

Final Four?

Finally, after a 6-game drought, Mike “Poopsie” Duggan found the back of the net with just under 2-minutes left to play in the first period, for his fourth goal of the season.  Let’s hope it’s not his “Final Four” during his personal “March Madness”.

Mike, who will help the ALD Mike Naczas win various bets and a 1099 from the league has just 4-goals after 8-games (0.50 GFA).  Averaging a ½ goal per game will get him to 7.5-goals on the season and that’s a great season for the average player, bit its less than 50% of his 18-goal challenge.

Once a 30-goal scorer, the pressure of the challenge may be getting to him.  “Poopsie” needs to start having 2-goal games from here on out to stay on pace.  Remember that time he scored 6-goals in one game (an uncertified league record) against Sean Roach.

In case you want some inspiration: 6-goals

Sean remembers, that’s why you have zero against him this season… but good news you get another crack at him on Week #14 (Let’s hope your close to 18 by then, and that Rob Sheridan is in Florida that weekend golfing)

Family Ties

Keeping it in the family… Tony Fosco took out his own cousin and teammate Tony Mastrocola with a high stick to the dome last week.

With the “Family Ties”… the league is starting an investigation on another family member Johnny Mastrocola to see if any foul play by Cousin Tony was involved in his season ending injury.

Since moving all three cousins to one team, it didn’t work out as well as the other infamous “Paisano” combination (De Luca – Tammaro – Cassano).  Johny went down a few times before having to call it a season with an upper body injury.  “Brother Tony” was left all alone with “Cousin Tony”, and he seems to have lost his scoring touch with 0-points on the season (thus far). 

Which leads us to believe that Tony Fosco (once a sniper) now with just 2-goals, might be the “root cause” of the family downfall. 

Trending Up!

Cam-A-Lot goaltender Anthony Petrillo is trending in the right direction… Up!

Up the goalie leaderboard that is, with his league leading 12-Goals Against.  Anthony is definitely a different goaltender this season.  Maybe last season being a “greenhorn” goaltender to the green team of the league gave him a shaky start between the pipes, but he’s turning that around his sophomore season.

“Ant” went from the leagues “punching bag” last season… to a “contender” this season with multiple solid performances (including a shutout) in net.   Even their losses were close as they lost 3-games by just one goal.

If Anthony is Trending up”… then Cam-A-Lot needs a couple of guys to “Step up!”.  When Gary Goodwin is leading your team in goals and assists…  we’ll just leave it at that. 

It will be one more thing that Gary toasts next season… the “Perfect Season” and that one time he was his teams “Leading Scorer”.

Pride of NH

Another New Hampshire player is having a better season (this season) as opposed to last.

Jon Brown and his return to the lineup for Capo-Zero has been a huge success so far.  After recovering from an injury that sidelined him for the winter season, Jon is a big part of the Capo-Zero’s quest to win one for their captain (Capo) Angelo De Luca.

With Gino Tammaro finally starting to show up on the scoring sheet after his sit down with the Don (and Jon)… The “Fishing Trip” for Gino was cancelled and their quest for a “Championship” is on as they currently sit in the #2 seed going into the doubleheader weekend.

Don’t look now… but Capo-Zero (#2) has a tough weekend ahead, probably the toughest one as they play the First Responders (#1) and the Poo Bears (#3) this could be a statement weekend if they can run the table on their competition.

Shining Star

Another “Shining Star” or should we say, “Knight in shining armor” for Cam-A-Lot has been the play of Derrick Power as for the second straight week he has been their games “#1 Star”.

Derrick and his moustache have been ¾ of his team offense for the past two weeks, scoring 3-goals in 2-games and 3-goals out of 4-goals his team scored in their 1-1 split.

Thankfully there wasn’t a cat stuck up in a tree… as Cam-A-Lot needed their Firefighter… “fighting” to score goals for them.

BYOB

In the past couple games the Over-30 League has blown their “Ice Bag” budget for the year as players went down needing ice packs for their injuries.

With “ICE” being a touchy subject these days, we are instituting a BYOB policy.  No, it’s not “Bring Your Own Booze”… It’s “Bring Your Own Bag” so we can go outside and take advantage of Mother Nature’s white gift from above and help reduce the snow piles in the parking lot to allow more cars to park on time.

Semi-Finalists

A lot of players were missing last week for an Over-50 Tournament in New York and the Over-30 Hockey League represented well.

Nice Job: Tony Medeiros, Paul Firicano, Dave Wilson, Kevin Johnson, Rob Greene and (Coach) Lee Nogler

Rumor has it we owe a “Congratulations” to Tommy Gallagher who beat them in the semi-finals and went on to win it all… but we have no photographic proof of Tommy’s win.