Duffers Hockey News for December 24th, 2010

Welcome to

We have ice on New Year's Day!

Thanks to Mini Wheezer, we have a game at 11:00 with our annual Family skate after our game.

Bus Trip To Pittsburgh is set for March 17-20, 2011!

We need a $100 deposit check made out to Duffers Hockey.

Harvey gets the best Christmas Card award, Penguins on ice, what could be better for our trip to Pittsburgh. I talked and listened to Uncle Bob for 90 minutes. He wants to go to Pittsburgh with us on the bus. I promised him some sun in Pittsburgh. I told him we would find a bar with a hole in the roof. Tony got us a great price on a new hotel that is located next to the Igloo. All rooms are suites for $109 plus Tax per night. It opens in January. Tony can get us a goalie if our goalies can't get out of their contractual agreements.

Pick your Room mate now. The following have been assigned:

Harvey and Formica*

Beak and Boris

Berserk and Ted

Tom Z and Russ

Darin* and Lu*

T&A and Bro Joe

Tom and Bob Morgan

Grandpa Ken and Wheezer

Steve A and Larry G

Rags and Tennessee Rags

The following are Unassigned:

Brinks, Donny G, Steve G*, Klinger, Doc, Tom O'Connor, Mini Wheezer, Perry*, Joe Evans, Joe Jr., Alien, Magoo, Thor, Uncle Bob, Koss and Goalie Waghorn

Thanks to Berserk for helping us add 3 more bus riders and putting us well below air fair.

*Will not ride the bus

Turn on your speakers to hear Jim Croce sing "Roller Derby Queen" (Sorry, the music won't play on a Mac) Click here for the Lyrics

John Bobka was laughing as Beak and Joe were quoting lines from Jim Croce's "Roller Derby Queen" This one's for you John.

Click here for the 2010-11 Schedule

Grandpa Ken was added to the Duffer Age list, A new calculation was posted, but it didn't help T&A, he is still more than a year short of making the Red list. The Addition did give us a "Cipher" Bill BTW is the Cipher*, with 16 Duffers older than him and 16 Duffers younger than him. Latest Dues paying and Meaningful list

Definition of CIPHER

1a : zero 1a b : one that has no weight, worth, or influence : nonentity


	Duffer News


	Papa Joe Makes the Cut!

Romeoville, IL 12/17/2010
Attendance 27
Strong Start for The Brain;
Strong Finish for The Anvil!

The "Stick line" of Mazzarella, Mazzarella and Mazzarella got the Whites off to a flying start, as the 55.25 year old Mazzarella, passed to the 80.86 year old Mazzarella, who beat the 55.9 year old Anvil on the first shot of the game. Frank later called them the Cheese line, but Papa Joe pointed out that mozzarella is a generic term for several kinds of Italian cheeses that are made using


	Stars of the Game


	spinning and then cutting (hence the name, as the Italian verb mozzare means "to cut") A mazzarella is a stick used to herd cattle (such as oxen), sheep, and horses in northern Italy. Papa Joe was added to the roster of Team Pittsburgh after his strong game. Papa Joe can sing . Irish tunes for us on St Patrick Day as we head for Pittsburgh. I remember a trip to Detroit in the 80s when Papa Joe grabbed the microphone at the Holliday Inn lounge and started singing Sinatra songs as our goalie, Slime Dog, accompanied him on the baby grand piano. . The patron gave them a standing ovation. When the lounge band came back from their break, people started leaving. The Brain had a shut out going into the final minutes of period one, when TZ tied it with 2 minutes left in the period. 60 seconds later, Mini Wheezer banged in a TZ rebound to give the Reds a 2-1 lead going into period two. Tom "TO" O'Connor crashed the net early in the second period and Dimples put a pass right on his tape for a bang bang one timer. Thor gave the Whites a 2-1 Meaningful lead when he beat the Anvil with a goofy shot. TO scored again when TZ fired a high hard one that bounced off of TO's shaft to knot the meaningful score and give the Reds a 4-2 lead, but the Whites came back to take a 5-4 lead with goals by AJ, Art and V-Man, then Joe Evans tied it at 5-5 with a goal late in the second period that left everyone with a look of disbelief. The Anvil tightened up and shut down the Whites with some great saves. Beak got the back breaker when he settled down a deflected pass from Geno and poked it past the Brain to give the Reds a 6-5 Meaningless lead and a 3-2 Meaningful advantage. Thor threatened to tie it when he zipped past the Red bench, all alone. He had time to think about his best moves, while the Red bench was shouting "choke" and other words of encouragement. Thor fumbled the puck and never got a shot off. Art almost tied it too with a break away, but the Anvil stopped him cold. Papa almost tied it with a wrist shot that mesmerized Eddie, but he reached out and caught it in his web. Rich Storm scored to make it 7-5 and then Geno roofed a shot in the closing seconds to give the Reds an 8-5 Meaningless win and a 4-2 Meaningful win. TO was happy to see that we added a couple of Irishmen to the Bus to Pittsburgh. (The Morgans committed to go) The thought of having to sing "Danny Boy" with a bunch of Italians and


	Poles was freaking him out. Terry had strong game with one good crash. Rich Storm


	took down Art. When Art finally got back to play D, Beak asked him, "Where have you been? Brian is tired of kicking out shots."


	Two More Stars

Remembering Tim Smith, December 2008

We managed to have fun on Friday with heavy hearts. We had the best turn out of the year and we even had Muzzy and Klinger on the bench. It was comforting to be with our Duffer Family during this sad time. Players wrote messages on the picture board. We set the board up where Tim and his son James usually sat. Mini Wheezer placed a Strohs light in front of the board. We had a moment of silent prayer before the game.

The locker room livened up a little after the game when Bill By The Way started passing around the bottle that Tipsy Terry brought. Eddie the Anvil started the guys singing "Sweet Caroline, Da Da Da". I have not heard singing in the Duffer Locker Room since we had Tim The Commissioner, 20 years ago! We took the board to Wild Wings and Special Ed bought Tim a beer.

If you view this page in the Internet Explorer Browser, you will here the song Sweet Caroline.

. The Picture Board after Beak finished it just before game time.	The board was set up in the locker room on Tim's seat with a Strohs.

The Anvil tries to send a Video of our song to his daughter.	We are almost out of beer, Time to head to Wild Wings.
Bill sets up the board at Wild Wings	BBTW was proud of his dexterity

A waitress comes over to see if Tim is old enough to have a beer.	Special Ed orders a beer for Tim.
Bill is satisfied as Tim's beer is in place.	This picture will was one of the ones placed on the board, to see all of the pictures, Click Here.

Tweedy's son Luke was freaked out by this Beer nuts look alike Santa last year when he was a 2 year old, but this year when his Mom told him that he better be good or Santa would not bring him any toys. He told her, "I'm gona punch Santa in the face and take all of his toys!"

"Roller Derby Queen"

Gonna tell you a story that you won't believe
But I fell in love last Friday evenin'
With a girl I saw on a bar room TV screen

Well, I was just gettin' ready to get my hat
When she caught my eye and I put it back
And I ordered myself couple o' more shots and beers

The night that I fell in love with a Roller Derby Queen
Around and round, oh, round and round
The meanest hunk o' woman that anybody ever seen
Down in the arena

She was five foot six and two fifteen
A bleached-blonde mama with a streak of mean
She knew how to knuckle and she knew how to scuffle and fight

And the roller derby program said
That she was built like a 'fridgerator with a head
Her fans call her "Tuffy" but all her buddies called her "Spike"

You know that I fell in love with a Roller Derby Queen
Around and round, oh, round and round
The meanest hunk o' woman that anybody ever seen
Down in the arena

Round and round, go round and round
Round and round, go round and round
Round and round

Well, I could not help it but to fall in love
With this heavy-duty woman I been speakin' of
Things looked kind of bad until the day she skated into my life

Well, she might be nasty, she might be fat
But I never met a person who would tell her that
She's my big blonde bomber, my heavy handed Hackensack mama

And I fell in love with a Roller Derby Queen
Around and round, oh round and round
The meanest hunk o' woman that anybody ever seen
Down in the arena

Round and round, go round and round
Round and round, go round and round
Round and round

Round and round, go round and round
Round and round, go round and round
Round and round

Round and round, go round and round
Round and round, go round and round
Round and round