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Hat Trick for Brinks

Romeoville, IL
9/16/2011

Attendance: 26

Another Good Turn Out!
The Reds got off to an early lead when Porta John scored on a rare pass from Nick.  Crash Terry made a great pass to Mini Wheezer to give the Reds a 2-0 lead.  The Whites came storming back with a goal by Brinks that was assisted by Tommy Z.  Lil' Tommy Ambrosia almost tied it up when he hit the post on a shot from the point.

Bless us O Lord for these Wings

He later hit the net to make the score 2-2 going into the 2nd period.  Brinks scored the only goal in the second period as the goalies, Rob the Guest and Eddie the Anvil  were stellar.  TZ also set that one up.  The Crown Royal started to wear off in the 3rd period as the Whites put 2 more pucks past the Anvil.  Kevin Monkey Rench made it 4-2 and then the feisty T&A made a mad dash for the net and when he drew a crowd, he dished it off to Brinks who iced the game with his Hat Trick.  Jeff Lopatka scored from the point late in the game, but it was too little too late.  The Reds were suffering from coast to coast hockey by their 14 year old center who will go nameless, but his initials are Nick Wayne.  Nick recently grew hair under his arms, so he figured he could skate through all of these old guys, but he found out that it is better to make a pass than have the puck stripped away from you. (That happened about 15 times) Hopefully, He will learn how to play Duffer style hockey soon.  Speaking of Duffer Style Hockey we have to slow down and take a deep breath when we feel we are playing for the Stanley Cup, some guys are forgetting that we are a drinking team with a hockey problem.  We play to get thirsty so that we can have a beer and some laughs after the game.  That is why our organization has been around for 40 years.  Whites 5, Reds 3.  The Reds won the Wild Wings contest again, 9-5.

            Perfect Attendance Drops to 20 

The Anvil, Beak, Beer Nuts, Bookie, Brinks, Dimples TZ, Drago, Fruit Cake, Geno, Hacksaw, Harvey, Klinger, Magoo, Bill Maestro, Mini Wheezer,  Porta John, Goalie Rob, Terry (Crash King), V-Man and T&A are perfect.


The Meaningless Trophy

Ever since the Czar presented the Meaningless trophy to Tim Smith in 2007, the recipients have been reluctant to accept the trophy.  In 2008, Perry the Flea left town when his name was engraved on the trophy.  In 2009, Mini Wheezer went to watch a bunch of Hillbillies race around in circles when he was honored.  In the last 4 years, only Bill BTW had the guts to show up and take the trophy home.  We thought that tradition would continue when T&A was honored this year, because he is always at the bar every week, but he was nowhere to be found when Mike made his presentation speech. 

 Terry was nice enough to accept the award  for his good friend T&A, but his wife wanted to take it home. 

Monica is thrilled with the Meaningless Trophy

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Mike finds out that a ball point pen is not good for engraving.

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He had a problem erasing too.

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Accepting the award for Tom Ambrosia is his good friend Terry.

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Monica said, "I'll take that if nobody wants to claim it."

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Beak became the 4th winner of the Tim "Basketball Jones" Smith Imperfect Attendance award.  He has only missed one night at Wild Wings since he went to Alaska in 2007.  He missed playing one game in the 2010-11 season while playing 2 games in Pittsburgh.  The other winners of the Tim Smith Award are: Stump, Mini Wheezer and Tim Smith.  
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2 years ago, The Czar was stood up when he tried to present Second Generation Meaningless Trophy

The King's Meaningless Trophy Winners

82-83 Jim “The King” Miceli”

83-84 Ken “Stump” Barczynski

84-85 Greg “Beak” Lopatka

85-86 John “Gomez “ Santoro

86-87 Tom Slime Dog”Kowalkowski

87-88 Bob “Dill” Deau

88-89 Nick “The Hammer” Brescia

89-90 Frank ( ) Presecky

90-91 Walter “Waju” Kraft

91-92 John “Wheezer” Clementson

92-93 Bill “Klinger” Giffune

*93-94 Gene “Thor” Miller

*94-95 Arvydas “Harvey”Dikinis

*95-96 Joe “Papa Gieseippi” Mazzarella

96-97 Fred “Fruit Cake” Bobka

97-98 Boris “Hacksaw”Pavichevich

98-99 Chris “Berserk” Mazurk

99-2000 John “Magoo” Landry

2000-01 Don “Brinks” Granato

2001-2002 John “Hitman” Heitman

**2002-2003 Jim “The King” Miceli”

*Received their trophies in 1996, because the trophy was lost in Kiliger's basement for 3 years.

**Trophy was retired

"Next generation" Meaningless Duffer Trophy

2003-04 Mike "Rich Storm "Presecky

2004-05 Gene "Geno" Cromwell

2005-06 Tom "Tommy Z" Zagorski

2006-07 Tim "Basketball Jones" Smith

2007-08 Perry "The Flea" Lea

2008-09 Mike "Mini-Wheezer" Oskroba

2009-10 Bill "BTW" Louis

2010-11 Tom "T&A" Ambrosia

 

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Klinger Krash Winners

2002 Stump

2003 Frank

2004 Alien

2005 Mini Wheezer

2006 Thor Miller

2007 Hacksaw

2008 Maestro Conti

2009 Crash Nance

2010 Face plant Evans

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They Had 2 WODs and a DOD on their team.

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