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           Thanksgiving Game is at Downers Grove at 8:30 AM            

Geno had 2, to give the Reds a meaningful tie, while Rich Storm, Mini Wheezer, Kevin Rench, Dimples, BTW Bill and The Anvil's son Nick each had one goal each.  The Anvil made a pre game call to his son when he saw he was going to be facing the Italian high scoring quartet.  Nick rushed to the rink and was on the ice for the 3rd shift.  The Reds were down a pair when he arrived to make the sides a little more balanced.  Fred "Fruit Cake" Bobka gave the Reds hope, in the third period when he tipped a Rich Storm shot past his own goalie.  Some of the newcomers, who didn't read the fine print of the Bobka Factor, thought that the goal would give the Reds a big lead when the Bobka Factor was calculated.  The Bobka Factor was developed in the 1980s to add some parity to the Duffer games. 
You can read a reprint of the Bobka Factor at:  http://www.lopatka.net/10-01-15/index.html

The first part of the factor gives bonus goals to his team when he scores, but it also reduces the value of opponent goals that are scored when Fred is on the ice.  So when we examine the score sheet, Fred was on the ice for 5 Red goals, the Square root of 5 is 2.236, so the final score was 10 to 5.236 instead of the 10-8 score on the board.  The Meaningful Score was 2-2 and the Reds dominated at Wild Wings as 7 players from the White team, boycotted the post game party.  *Cammi's Mom is Polish

Bus Road Trip to Pittsburgh leaves on St Patrick's Day  Make your $100 Deposit Check out to Duffers Hockey.  Wheezer was the first to pay.  Super Dave is working on a Tee Shirt Design.

The Day before Thanksgiving Lunch is at Nicks in Lemont Wednesday November 24th

The Following Duffers have Perfect Attendance:  Beak, The Bookie, Dimples, Fruit Cake, Magoo, "Tumblin" Terry, V-Man and T&A

Ben Smith, How do you feel now?
My question is, How does a guy with a coaching record that has 45 more losses than wins get a job coaching USA's finest players?  I can understand why they moved him away from coaching males after his association with Richardson. 

Year Team Wins Losses Ties                           Postseason
1995-96 Northeastern 10 21 5 no
1994-95 Northeastern 16 14 5 no
1993-94 Northeastern 19 13 7 Appeared in NCAA tournament
1992-93 Northeastern 10 24 1 no
1991-92 Northeastern 15 20 0 no
1990-91 Dartmouth 1 24 3 not with a 1-24 record
Coaching career of Ben Smith Taken from Wikapedia

In autumn 1968, Smith served as an assistant at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. After several years of coaching high school hockey in Gloucester, Massachusetts, Smith became an assistant with the Yale Bulldogs. Smith left Yale to become an assistant with the Boston University Terriers. At BU, Smith worked with Jack Parker, who played for BU while Smith played at Harvard.
Smith's time at BU would represent some of the first success in his coaching career. After helping to lead the Terriers to the NCAA Final Four in 1990, he accepted the head coaching job for the Dartmouth Big Green. In his first and only season with Dartmouth, he had 1 win, 24 losses and 3 ties. His only victory was against the Northeastern Huskies hockey program, the team he would coach the next 5 seasons.

Northeastern Huskies

Smith became the Northeastern coach in 1991, inheriting a team that had 8 wins, 25 losses and 2 ties in the 1990-91 season. One of the worst moments of Smith's coaching career came on February 12, 1996, during a first-round game of the Beanpot,  an annual tournament featuring teams from Boston College, Boston University, Harvard University and Northeastern University. After Huskies goalie Todd Reynolds surrendered a goal to Boston University's Brendan Walsh -- giving BU a 10-3 lead -- Reynolds did the right thing and left the net and walked past a completely embarrassed and humiliated Smith into the locker room  The moment was considered very embarrassing by many in the New England Media and Smith was made to look foolish by a justified Reynolds. They final strike in the heart for Smith's dismal career was his coaching relationship with Bob Richardson. Richardson was Smith's assistant coach at Northeastern University. After Northeastern, Richardson was running hockey camps and coaching at Milton Academy in Massachusetts when in July of 2003 he was arrested on child rape charges. Rightfully or wrongly many in the hockey community in Massachusetts looked at Smith in a different light because of his very close relationship with Richardson. However, Richardson was acquitted of the child rape charges in September 2005.

USA Hockey

While he was an assistant coach at Boston University, he took a year off from BU to assume a role as the assistant coach of the U.S. men's hockey team in Ice hockey at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. Ten years later, Smith would return to the Olympics as the coach of the first ever US women's team. Smith coached the first three women's Olympic teams and won a gold (1998), silver (2002) and bronze (2006) medal In 2009, the 1998 U.S. Olympic Women's Ice Hockey Team, was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame As the coach of the Women's National Team, one of the stupidest moves of his career came when he cut Cammi Granato from the 2006 Olympic team