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Bolingbrook, IL February 16, 2007
Attendance 23

Rich Storm is Out!

Game Report 
Friday's game featured many sub stories.  Rich Storm was absent due to a Klinger Krash that he suffered a week earlier.  He is listed as Day to Day, which is week to week in Duffer Speak.  Bill "the Alien" Allen returned to action after a missing a year or two, which is a millennium in Duffer time.  (Maybe the Nailer will be inspired and make a comeback)  The most exciting sub plot was brought about by Perry "The Flea" when he played his first game as an American citizen.  Congratulations to Perry and Debbie! 

Thor shows how he feels about a tie, while Magoo is in pain.

 The game started out with too many players wearing Red, so 2 Bills (Bill By the Way and Bill the Maestro" Conti) were traded, actually they were given to the Whites for no compensation.  That was a generous move since the Whites already had Rob (NHL) Granato and Art.  Rob was given NHL status by Beak's grandson Jeff after he chased him around for 2 periods.  Jeff asked his Grandpa, "Why isn't that guy in the NHL?"  The game was a tight contest until the Reds pulled ahead 7-4 early in the third on goals by SPED (3) Tommy Z (3) mini Wheezer and Magoo, but the Whites came storming back with goals by Brinks, Rob, Maestro and Art.  The game ended prematurely in an 8-8 tie when the Zamboni driver opened the door with 8 minutes left on the scoreboard and told us it was 10:20 P.M. and we were guilty of clock mismanagement without the services of Rich Storm.  One memorable play happened when the Red goalie, Tweedy came out to clear a puck from the zone.  Rob picked off his waist high clearing pass, then walked in for and easy open net goal.  Another key play came when Rob dropped a pass to his dad then skated into Ken, the Red defenseman and screened Tweedy from seeing the shot from Brinks.  Basketball Jones was accused of cheating when he became a "stay at home" defenseman.  He also got some heat after the game for his hair do.  Strange things happen when you sit in Harvey' s seat. Meaningful score was also tied at 1.

Road Trip Saturday March 24, 2007.
You have 4 weeks to get ready for our Bloomington Road Trip.  We have 22 guys so far.  3 goalies, I Referee, 1 Coach, I Fan, 16 skaters and Beak.  Art and Emil can fill out the rest of the team with Peoria Duffers.

Basketball Jones with his new look.

(Left) Special Ed got a hat trick after learning the Duffer way at the weekly Duffer Lunch.

 

Duffer Birthdays 

Age

Birthday

Anvil

52

25/Jan

Papa Joe

77

8/Feb

Butt Head

45

15/Feb

Rich Storm

39

19/Feb

Knarf

69

21/Feb

Beak

67

26/Feb

 

 

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Lunch at the Zone with a TV Star

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Beak scared off the TV Star with his Grandpa shirt

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The King pays for his root beer

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This was Harvey's 4th straight lunch appearance

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Special Ed takes a day off to lunch with the Duffers

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Rob breaks the bad news "No Beer next week"

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Meaningful goal scorers Brinks (Above) and Magoo (right)

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See cartoon below, as Thor tells about  

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 his trip to a dark toilet at Jernberg.

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http://www.sportzdomain.com/womenshockey/

granatohockey.com

http://www.prairiethunderhockey.com/

http://www.rivermen.net

http://www.coloradoavalanche.com/

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Here are some  pages to visit

January 20 Hockey road trip to Indianapolis

January 14th, Bears Win! We partied!

11:00 A.M. January 1st, 2007 I played Hockey with my sons

12:30 P.M. We partied on the ice

December 25, 2006 Christmas at Our House

December 17th, 2006 Cosley Zoo

December 2nd, 2006 Holy Trinity Christmas Party

November 23rd, 2006 Thanksgiving 

November 18th, 2006 Michelle's Oswego Horse Show

November 17th, 2006 I returned to the Ice (only as a Referee)

November 8, 2006 Transit of Mercury

October 31st 2006 Halloween

October 28, 2006 Fun with Grace and Michael

October 25, 2006 Carmela's first day

October 15th Fall celebration 43 floors above the LSD

October 7th Mike and Trina's Baby Shower

September 30th Michelle's 12th Birthday

September 16th White Fence Farm (End of "Cabin Fever")

September 1st Earth is no longer a Planet?

August 26th Audrey and Grace visit

August 14th my left hip was replaced.

August 6th My Sister Pat pays a visit

August 5th, 2006 Jimmy Buffett Concert

http://www.lopatka.net/Buffett/2006.htm

August 4th Michelle's Bandits Party

July 25th Four Field Trips in one day

July 19th Kathie gets her first coaching win

July 17, 2006 Kane County Cougars

These are the Duffer Elf dancers that got "Spammed" by some services.

Click here to see Harvey dance. http://www.elfyourself.com/?userid=9213315da2e51a04aff7a50G06122320

Click here to see  Klinger dance. http://www.elfyourself.com/?userid=c18d82a9390c2a0f730c115G06122320

Click here to see  Brinks dance. http://www.elfyourself.com/?userid=b022ec175a6deb62a6155caG06122320

Click here to see Mini  dance.  http://www.elfyourself.com/?userid=38354df541e6d26b58034aaG06122320

Click here to see Wheezer dance. http://www.elfyourself.com/?userid=e9c3f01cfa2cf7bfb01d1a4G06122320

Click here to see Boris dance. http://www.elfyourself.com/?userid=89895880799581a09bd4f26G06122320

Click here to see Donny dance. http://www.elfyourself.com/?userid=60f26db46c374a8c1e005e2G06122322

Click here to see Smurf dance. http://www.elfyourself.com/?userid=c2175ffbc966efca447075cG06122322

Click here to see John dance. http://www.elfyourself.com/?userid=c63d1f0c07b59ecceda7c2cG06122322

Click here to see Beak dance. http://www.elfyourself.com/?userid=c9649ed2cbf1616ec5d3f03G06122310