Duffer Hockey News for January 1, 2009

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	3 Hats for the Polar Bears

Romeoville, IL 12/29/08
Attendance 21
The Red Bears Win the 2nd Period!

The Whites jumped all over Dave the Goalie for 5 first period goals, while the Brain was tossing a shut out. Rich Storm started the scoring , then Brinks, Hacksaw, Art and Geno quickly joined in on the fun. Beak spoiled the Brain's shut out when he finally missed the goalie and hit the far post He then poked the rebound in to make the score 5-1. Brinks scored again 4 minutes later, but TZ answered that to give the Reds a 2-1 second period lead, unfortunately, you have to play 3 periods. The Reds made a move to add some scoring punch, when they moved Bill BTW up to forward. That worked for 3 goals, as TZ, TO and


	The Duffer Winter Classic is here. What will you bring?


	BBTW each scored to give the Reds 5 goals. (2 Meaningful) The Reds had to rotate 3 defensemen and Special Ed had his hands full rotating with Fruitcake and Koss. The Whites had fun in the 3rd period, as Brinks, Art and Geno picked up Hat tricks and T&A added a pair. To make the final 12-5 and 7-2 Meaningful. The foggy weather may have frightened a few Duffers away, but Art made the 2 hour drive. Frank missed his first game of the year, leaving only Beak, Bookie and Stump with perfect attendance:. The 2008 stats are now complete. In 33 Meaningless games, there were 5 ties. The Reds won 14 while averaging 5.85 goals per game. The Whites won 14 while averaging 6.45 goals per game. The Meaningful games were not as even, there were 12 ties Reds won 5 while averaging 0.82 Goals per game. The Whites won 15 while averaging 1.79 Goals per game. We averaged 22.38 Duffers per game this season. See complete Stats page below. These Duffers have volunteered to bring the following items for The Duffer Winter Classic Party: Beak: Coffee, cups, spoons and Power strip Beak's Daughter has a tray of cookies. Brinks: Beer. Frank: Dip and Chips. Bill BTW: Chili, bowls and spoons Tom Ambrosia 6 liters of pop and cups. Bookie: Chocolate cookies or cake


	What ever you bring, please bring whatever is needed. Forks, spoons, plates, bowls etc.

Please E-mail Beak with your New Year's Day food choice. g.lopatka@comcast.net

E-mail from Lepin Lu: MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU AND YOURS MY FRIEND!!! This is great stuff thanks so much. Have a safe and joyous New Year! Can't wait for Arizona! Lu


	1 year ago, Special Ed was on crutches.

I had to bring out this Fun Tax Logo that Mike made using Berserk as our Male Model for fun.

Be prepared to pay a Fun Tax on Thursday when we honor Tim Smith.

NEW YEAR'S EVE: What a way to end the year. On Dec. 31st, Venus and the slender crescent Moon will gather together high in the 
southwestern sky for a beautiful conjunction visible for hours after sunset.  The two brightest objects in the night sky can be seen through city lights
and even fireworks--so everyone can enjoy the show. Meanwhile, closer to the horizon, Mercury and Jupiter are converging for their own 
Dec. 31st conjunction. This one is not so easy to see, but rewarding for those who make the effort to find the two planets shining 
through the rosy glow of sunset.  Visit http://spaceweather.com for sky maps and photos of the converging planets.

I took these pictures after sunset on December 29. Venus is near the top and the crescent Moon is just above the garage. The Moon will move half way to Venus on the 30th and on New Years Eve, it will form a beautiful conjunction with Venus.	Click on the above picture to see the full resolution, then zoom in on Venus and you will see that it is not round, because it goes through phases just like the Moon, but we can never see a full Venus from Earth, because we eclipse the sunlight when it is in that position.
I ran these for Bill BTW, who had never seen Klinger on MASH.	Here are the best of Klinger's pictures.

A few years ago we saw the above picture and thought that it helped us understand why we don't understand women. My sister sent me a more complete diagram of the female brain and this one helps us misunderstand women even more.

Duffer Statistics for 2008

Date	Meaningful			Meaningless			Meaningful Wins			Meaningless Wins
	Reds	Whites		Reds	Whites	Reds	Whites	Ties	Reds	Whites	Ties
1/1/2008	3	2		7	7	1					1
1/4/2008	2	1		7	2	1			1
1/11/2008	1	2		8	6		1		1
1/18/2008	0	0		1	5			1		1
1/25/2008	0	0		7	5			1	1
2/8/2008	0	0		1	6			1		1
2/15/2008	2	1		7	4	1			1
2/22/2008	1	2		7	4		1		1
2/29/2008	1	2		7	7		1				1
3/14/2008	0	2		5	4		1		1
3/21/2008	0	4		6	6		1				1
3/28/2008	0	1		6	3		1		1
4/4/2008	2	3		5	5		1				1
4/11/2008	1	1		9	9			1			1
4/18/2008	0	1		3	7		1			1
5/2/2008	0	5		4	11		1			1
5/9/2008	2	2		7	5			1	1
1st half Total	15	29		97	96	3	9	5	8	4	5
Average	0.8823529	1.705882		5.70588235	5.647059
	Meaningful		Attendance	Meaningless			Meaningful Wins			Meaningless Wins		Goalie
	Reds	Whites		Reds	Whites	Reds	Whites	Ties	Reds	Whites	Ties	Red	White
9/5/2008	0	0	21	5	8			1		1		Anvil	Brain
9/12/2008	0	0	21	4	3			1	1			Anvil	Brain
9/19/2008	1	0	21	8	6	1			1			Anvil	Brain
9/26/2008	No Ice
10/3/2008	0	4	21	6	8		1			1		Anvil	Stump
10/10/2008	2	2	23	7	3			1	1			Anvil	Guest
10/17/2008	1	7	25	7	15		1			1		Anvil	Brain
10/31/2008	0	1	22	6	10		1			1		Anvil	Brain
11/7/2008	0	3	24	6	7		1			1		Anvil	Brain
11/14/2008	0	2	23	4	5		1			1		Stump	Brain
11/21/2008	0	0	23	7	3			1	1			Tweedy	Anvil
11/27/2008	0	0	18	4	6			1		1		Anvil	Brain
11/28/2008	1	0	23	5	10	1				1		Dave	Brain
12/5/2008	2	1	26	5	10	1				1		Anvil	Brain
12/12/2008	2	2	26	8	5			1	1			Anvil	Brain
12/19/2008	1	1	20	9	6			1	1			Tweedy	Brain
12/26/2008	2	7	21	5	12		1			1		Dave	Brain
2nd half totals	12	30	358	96	117	3	6	7	6	10	0
2nd half Ave.	0.75	1.88	22.38	6.00	7.31
	27	59		193	213	6	15	12	14	14	5
2008 Ave.	0.82	1.79		5.85	6.45

Last Friday at the Bar, I mentioned that I think of Tim every time I take a shower

Beak is laughing here, he doesn't know he has a few bruises that will show up in the morning when the beer wears off. Tim consoles Beak by telling him that he is lucky that it was his shot and not Tweedy or Jeff's shots that hit him. I looks worse than it is and since he scored a goal, it was worth it. Besides that, Beak's right hip is all metal since July 2005.

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Links to Duffer Hockey Newsletters

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Tweedy's Wags Game

Links to Arizona Pictures

http://photos.lopatka.com/main.php?g2_itemId=2551

http://www.lopatka.net/08-04-04/index.htm

http://www.lopatka.net/08-03-28/index.htm

http://www.lopatka.net/08-03-21/index.htm

http://www.lopatka.net/08-03-14/index.htm

http://www.lopatka.net/a08-03-07/index.htm

Cool Links:

http://www.aksalser.com/game.htm Throw a shoe at Bush

Watch Mike Granato drop the gloves in a Junior game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q26yLniiLIw
Watch  Ken's son do a wheelie with Ken's 57 Chevy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTdylWJg8OE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgBRKwS2hgI&feature=related
We had a lot of laughs at lunch talking about how the Dire Straits

• Money for nothing video used to silence the bar room at Saint's 
Spectrum back in 1984 whenever it came on the little bar room TV.  
Check it out at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNaKWXqXkhw

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