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We have our Madison car/van Road trip is set.  We will go to Men's Badger games on Friday and Saturday evenings. We will watch the #1 Badger Women play St. Cloud State on Saturday and Sunday afternoons.

The Anvil has had no snow to plow this year.

 

Next Duffer Game is

December 29 at 8:50

 

Click Here for the schedule.

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Happy New Year!

Duffer News

Polish Power Rules!

Romeoville, IL December 22, 2017  Attendance: 24
We had a nice turnout again. Each team had 2 lines plus. Johnny  "Cupcake" Bobka came home from Law school to find a new Duffer Jersey and Hockey bag with #19 assigned to  him. Bill By the Way started the scoring when he was set up by  Crash Terry and his son Dylan on their first shift.  John wasted no time in putting his new #19 to work when he scored a goal that was assisted by 2 Lopatkas.  Beak started the play with a no look back hand pass off of the boards right to his grandson Monet Mike who raced into the zone and set up Cupcake's goal with a nice pass. Tommy Z got that goal back when he fired a shot past Matt the Hammer who was filling in for the Anvil. We now had 1 goal and 2 assists by 3 Polish Duffers. That theme continued as Monet Mike Lopatka scored 2 more goals to give the Reds a 4-1 lead. Johnny Bobka scored again to increase the Red lead to 5-1. Red players stifled their glee when they were reminded that they blew a 5-0 lead last week. Duffer History was about to

John and his Dad had fun.

repeat as Anthony "Double A" Antonini, Rob "The Ziv" Zivalich and Tommy Z scored to knot the score at 5-5.  Early in the second period, Dylan Nance did his best imitation of a Beak grandson as he put the puck on Beak's stick in the slot.  Beak fired a low backhander that Barron "The Bear" Williams stopped with a great pad save. Dylan set Beak up again, but this time Beak fired a wrist shot that hit the Bear in the Duffer Bear. Dylan worked a puck free in the corner and he sailed a soft saucer pass to Beak that he one timed past the Bear into the top shelf to break the tie. Beak now only a fight away from getting a Gordie Howe Hat trick, but nobody wanted to "Dance" with the Beak, because they saw what happened to Mini Wheezer in the Joe Louis Arena when he dropped the gloves and gave Beak a Gordie Howe Hat trick in the "Joe"! Johnny Bobka scored again to get his Hat Trick.  Bill BTW picked up his second goal to put the Reds up 8-5.  Monet Mike scored to get his Hat and then added 1 more to put the Reds up 10-5.  Geno scored a one eyed goal to make the final 10-6. Then it happened, Fred "Fruitcake" Bobka hit the crossbar with a shot that would have given the Reds 100 goals when the Bobka Factor kicked in.  (Ten squared = one hundred)

Memorable moments:

  • 10 goals were scored by Polish Duffers
  • Crash Nance beat Guest Greg 5-2 in the tumble contest.




Beak and his grandson scored 5 goals and his great granddaughter helped her Dad win 10 faceoffs.

Madison Road Trip January 26-28

We don't have enough skaters to play a Duffer game, so we will just do a Badger game week end.  They are fun to watch.  Two Aurora kids Sean Dhooghy and his brother Jason are freshmen. Sean played with Donny in the USA development program.  He is 5'3" and tips the scale at 139. His big brother Jason is 5 inches taller and 2 pounds heavier. The Badger Women are home that weekend too.  We have 5 guys that  need a room for Friday and Saturday.  We have 15 guys that need Tickets to Friday and Saturday men's games. We have 14 guys that need tickets to the Saturday Women's game and 7 that will be staying for the Sunday Women's game.

3 Polish Goals from John.

5 Polish Goals from Beak and his grandson Mike.

We had 10 Duffers for our annual Duffer Lunch at the Kilt.

January will have 2 Super Moons.  One will occur on New Year's Day. The second one will happen on January 31st. That will be a Blue Moon. 

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10 years ago it was -40 F and -40 C in Fairbanks Alaska

10 years ago, Harvey was ready to party.

10 years ago, we had Tim.

http://www.lopatka.net/tim/index.htm

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1996 March Hayward Trip  We saw Comet Hyakutake

December 6, 1996  Duffer news #85

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(Anvil's Daughter won it!)

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The Duffer Picnic was Saturday July 29th at Tommy’s House

Morton Arboretum Origami

August 1; Kane County Cougar Game

August 6; Parkinson's Fund Raiser

August 18; Summer Game

August 21; Total Solar Eclipse

August 26; Golf Outing

September 1; Muzzy passed away. He gave us more laughs than any other Duffer.

He was born on May 20, 1935.  My son Dan was born on his birthday in 1970. 

We shared a lot of Muzzy pictures in the last Newsletter.

This was 1997 when we brought up Robby Granato to give the Bombers 2 Illinois ringers.  We filled most of the coach seats and avoided a fun tax.  This is the year that Muzzy shocked Hayward church goers when he came out of the church and boarded the bus with toilet paper streaming out of his pants. Read More....

Read the lyrics to "Wayward in  Hayward" by Jim Coughenhour

 

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Mike won 11 awards for his artistic creations at the Tattoo convention in Champaign.

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(Above) Mike's work of art on Joe Mazzarella III's leg.

(Above) Mike's work of art on Joe Mazzarella III's ribs.

Ann Arbor Music DVDs are ready to ship.  $10 includes shipping and handling. you can also get classic copies of:

 

You may find the following links useful:

Ben Oskroba's First professional goal for the Peoria Rivermen

Drago's Hockey Lessons

Here is a video, thanks to Perry and Paula on How to be a Hockey Player 

 

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Michelle Spillman

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Michelle hits a 2 run home run for Romeoville High School in a 3-0 victory against Joliet Catholic Academy.

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Michelle Spillman hit a 2 run Home run to beat Joliet Catholic on April 18, 2012. ... greg Lopatka ... Michelle Spillman and Romeoville High School. ...

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Michelle Spillman hit her 4th homerun on April 21, 2012 to beat Hershey High. ... greg Lopatka ... Michelle Spillman "outdoor sports" ...

 

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Michelle hit a triple to help beat Highland Park High 8-5 on 4/21/2012.

 

Patrick Kane Stickhandling:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REAqCB9vfbU

Brandon Bollig Stickhandling:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3B8v_ZHA10