Romeoville, IL 10/10/08
Attendance 23

4 More Meaningful Goals! 
Friday morning, Beak woke up with cold symptoms, so Carole told him to stay home and rest on Friday night, Beak said, "I can't do that. Because Perry is in town."  Beak was glad he didn't stay home, because he took a pass from Tommy Z and tapped in a back door goal, just 30 seconds into the game to give the Reds a 1-0 Meaningful lead.  "Back Door Tommy" set up Thor a few shifts later to make it 2-0.  Geno cut the lead in half late in the first period with a goal that beat The Anvil on the stick side.  Back Door Tommy tried to set up Harvey, but the crafty veteran pushed it over  to Stump who fired it past the rookie goalie.  Stump was so excited that he started to do a little celebratory dance.  

Perry Returns and pays his fee to frank

He caught himself and settled down when the Bookie gave him a look of disgust.  Stump later defended his actions by saying he was overcome with emotion after picking up the win last week with a 3rd period shut out and then a goal this week.  See "The Stanley Cup Champion" description in the October 3, 2008 Duffer News.  Back Door's brother, Back Hand Johnny gave the Reds a 4-1 lead with a backhanded shot that whistled past the kneeling goalie's ear.  Geno scored early in the second period on a pass from Basketball Jones, to cut the lead to 4-2.  This one knotted the meaningful score at 2 apiece.  "TO", Tom O'Connor finally quit going to Sox games and made his season debut and scored to give the Reds a 5-2 lead.  Bill "The Maestro" made it 6-2 and Back Hand Johnny made it 7-2 after 2 periods.  For the second week in a row, the Red Bears hibernated in the final period, but this week the Whites were not able to pull it out, as The Anvil had one of his finest games.  Rich Storm was the only one able to get one past him in the third period.  Fruit Cake almost spoiled the party when he just missed the far post.  That  would have been their 4th goal and the Bobka Factor would have given the Whites a 16-7 win.  (4 Squared is 16)  Perry had a fine game once he traded Bill By The Way's short stick in for a longer one.  Terry the Terror had one that was more to his liking.  We had a Klinger Krask moment in the third period when Tom Ambrosia (T&A) made a last second line change on a face off in their offensive zone next to the White bench.  Terry came racing out, took a spill that would have made a Hollywood stuntman jealous.  He rolled over on to his back with his skates pointing toward the ceiling.  

Thanks to Papa Joe for blowing the whistle for 2 periods, maybe next time he can have a beer.
Arizona I need to know if you want a ticket to the Coyotes-Sabers on Friday, March 6th.  Boris needs to know who wants to golf.  Fancy $100 or cheap $50?

Perfect Attendance Holds at 9!

The following guys have perfect attendance;

Maestro, Beak, Bookie, Frank, Stump, Terry, Fruit Cake, Hacksaw and The Anvil.
We may give a "Perfect Attendance Mulligan" if you skate in Arizona.  That could get us back to 14.