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Duffer News! Steve Mazzarella passed away on Saturday January 12, 2019 after a long battle with brain cancer. He will be missed, click here for his obituary.
Click here to keep up with Jack Kroll in Brooklyn NY.
Brian
Kraft
Alaska Sportsman's
Lodge
Bristol Bay Lodge
907.227.8719 Cell
907.276.7605 Office
We are ordering T-Shirts. Contact Beak if you want one. The Duffers Have a Road Trip to St. Louis soon We will board a train in Joliet on January 17 Mike needs a deposit now. Catching up with the Granatos, American Hockey Royalty The 47th Season Opener is in the Books 20 Years ago
The Jeff Lopez Short Version Duffer Video is on Youtube
Duffer Birthdays January 10, Bill "Klinger" Giffune January 29, Brian Kraft February, 19, Mike "The Czar" Presecky February, 21, Frank "Knarf" Presecky February, 26, Greg "Beak" Lopatka |
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Some things to do on Thursday afternoon and evening. Go to the museum where you can see all the gear that Lewis and Clark took on their journey. https://mohistory.org/museum Go to their zoo. Ride the Arch. See the church built out of Mosaics that has the more Mosaics than anywhere in the world. Go to their botanical garden. Go to the refurbished FOXX THEATER that was built in the early 1900's. You can go back stage and see dozens of autographs of stars that appeared there plus old costumes.
Amtrak Schedule: We already have our group tickets for Amtrak:
10:15 am - 3:00pm to St Louis
(Thursday 1/18/2019)
3:00
Pm - 7:26 pm to Joliet, IL (Sunday 1/21/2019)
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| Click here to listen to Anvil's song "The Goalie is Drunk" |
 Early Saturday Morning, we still had 8 Duffers and 2 referees left at Wild Wings. The Referees remained neutral and chose not to vote to declare Goalie Interference on the Anvil.
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 We had a nice turnout at Wild Wings. |
 The Red team provided 90% of the party guys. |
 Our favorite waitress was off duty, so she partied with us. |
 Beak told Dana all about the great goal that Brett scored. |
 Duffers go Live on Facebook |
 (Game updates and summary can be found on the Duffers Hockey Facebook and Mini Wheezer's page) |
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 Ed Waghorne was very good to me for Christmas. |
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36 years ago, 18 Duffers took a train to Lake Placid to play in the rink where the Miracle on ice gave USA a gold Medal in 1980. History will Repeat when the Duffers have a Train Road Trip in January. St. Louis Thursday January 17th - Sunday January 20th
We will leave from the Amtrak
Station in Joliet on Thursday
Staying at the Marriott in
Downtown St Louis (Walking distance to bars and the Enterprise
Center)
Duffer Hockey Game at
Brentwood Parks and Rec Center on Friday, 1/18/2019,
from 1PM to 3PM.
Blues vs Senators Saturday
Sunday Return
Estimated cost / Duffer = $450
Right now we have 19 x $100
deposits Hotel Rooms and Blues game tickets are limited. Let us
know asap if you are going.
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 Brett talked his brother Trevor into playing with us. |
 Jeff's girl friend has had perfect attendance at Wild Wings. |
 Billy coached his alma matter to a victory before playing with the Duffers. |
 V-Man finally made it to Wild Wings for a free meal thanks to Greg Z. and his credit card. |
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 Dana has turned out to be a Duffer pleaser. She remembers what you ordered without doing the numbers! She even remembers what you ordered last week. We are so happy that she came along since we lost Sammy. |
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 Wheezer came to lunch with his Duffer Hockey bag filled with good stuff including size 11 skates. If you know a big guy that wants to start playing... |
 Klinger and I helped Karen open a stubborn bottle of wine. Join us on Wednesday at the Vault on Wednesday 12/5/2018 |
 These pictures were taken at Nicks in 2003 |
 We will celebrate Karen's Birthday. |
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 Lil Bill and BTW Bill had 4 of the 5 White goals. |
 Bret is one guy that makes it to BWW for a post game beer and laugh. |
 T&A made his second trip to Wild Wings. |
 Ken brought us a guest that helped us get 2 full lines. |
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 Beak's great granddaughter Carmela played at the United Center. |
We were given cool hats that will keep us warm.
We want to thank all of the Duffers who joined in the fun and made it possible for Carmela's team to skate on the United Center Ice. |
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 We had time after Carmela's game to enjoy some $10 beers. |
 Ryan, the Duffer Referee in chief was there with his uncle. His Dad, Commander Ken, was working security. |
 Carmel's team beat the Admirals. |
 Carmela had her Dad and uncle Jeff serving as referees. |
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 Art made is first appearance and scored 2 goals. |
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(Back Row Left to Right) Beak, V-Man, Terry, Greg Z, Rags, Fruitcake, Drago, Tommy Z, Mini-Wheezer, The Czar, Magoo, DeJesus, Hacksaw, Guest, Harvey, Beak Jr, TO. (Front Row Left to Right) t&a, T&A, Jake Z, Berserk and Cal, The Brain, The Anvil, Lil' Drago, Tweedy, Dylan, Bill BTW and Daughter of BBTW. 2008
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Remember when we always had 15 -20 guys at Wild Wings?
Some guys are turning into Fred, it was great to see Brett and Jeff show up. Thanksgiving Cartoons
We miss you Thor! (We miss Basketball Jones and Magoo too)
We miss these guys too. Papa Joe played his last game when he was 83, Joe Jr. has been missing this season while caring for his brother Steve who lost his battle with brain cancer on January 12, 2019. |
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20 Years ago
Want more Photoshop Gems? http://www.lopatka.net/Photoshop gems/index.htm
Wags Hockey
Classic Duffer News
Go to Lake Placid News for some
laughs.
http://www.lopatka.net/1982-Lake%20Placid/index.html
The Duffers received a
Christmas Card and Thank You from Mario Lemieux. The Duffers
have 4 pictures on the Mario Mosaic.
http://www.lopatka.net/2011-10-14/index.html (Anvil's Daughter won it!)
Visit
The Rampage Women's Hockey Team web site at:
http://www.rampagehockey.org/index.cfm They Have 2 WODs and on their team. Their DOD moved to Canada
for Graduate School. WOD=Wife Of a Duffer, DOD = Daughter of a Duffer
Links
to Duffer Hockey Newsletters
2008-2010
Stats
page
Michelle
Spillman hits and fields
To E-mail the Duffer
News Web master, just click here! g.lopatka@comcast.net
You
can e-mail History updates to Beak.
The
Duffer Picnic was Saturday July 29th
2017 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
Mike won 11 awards for his artistic creations at the Tattoo convention
in Champaign.
mikeylotattoos@att.net
(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
Here is a video, thanks to Perry and Paula on
How to be a
Hockey Player
Michelle
Spillman 10-31-10
Michelle
hits a 2 run home run for Romeoville High School in a 3-0 victory
against Joliet Catholic Academy.
Michelle
Spillman hit a 2 run Home run to beat Joliet Catholic on April
18, 2012. ... greg Lopatka ... Michelle Spillman
and Romeoville High School. ...
Michelle
Spillman hit her 4th homerun on April 21, 2012 to beat Hershey
High. ... greg Lopatka ... Michelle Spillman
"outdoor sports" ...
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 |
Go
to Duffer History 
Duffer Nicknames
1996
March
Hayward Trip 
