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US Robotics used to give free pages when you bought a modem from them, then they ended the program and all of my pages were lost. I started using Geocities in the late 1990s, but they are closing that program, so I have rescued my pages to lopatka.net. This page goes up to March 1999. Geocities2 goes to August 1999 and Geocities 3 goes to January 2000. Geocities4 has the recovered the early 2000 pages. Other Rebuilt Geocities Pages Newsletter #99 First Duffer Newsletter in Cyber Space 1997 |
There was no Duffer News reported to the Duffer news room. Christmas Eve and New Years Eve wiped out our Friday games. Beak had a letter published in the Sun-Times on Christmas Eve. If you missed it, there is a copy of the letter at the bottom of this page. The Duffer SODs, DODs and GODs were very busy.
Ken Lopatka gave a ring to the Duffer Referee. I know
it is very unusual for a hockey player to marry a referee but our referee is a
very attractive female. She said Yes! The Date is TBA
DOD (Daughter Of a Duffer) News
You have to love high school hockey.
Where 14 year olds are bouncing off of 18 year olds and you get more recognition
for crashing into the boards, than scoring a goal. (Mike is the good guy
with the white hat.) You can find many more pictures at: http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Base/9522/dgs.htm
GOD (Grandchild
Of a Duffer) News
Beak's grandson, Mike played 3 hard fought games at the Edge Ice rink where his high school team was invited to play in the Chicago Blackhawk Charity Holiday Tournament. Downers Grove South carried an 11 game unbeaten streak into the tourney. They are in first place in their league and the Sun Times ranked them 3rd in the State. They Tied Glenbrook North in the final minute, then they lost to Fenwick later that evening. They surprised Culver Academy 2-2 the following day. Culver went on to the semifinals by beating Fenwick 6-0 and Glenbrook 4-3. New Trier won the tournament, to keep their #1 ranking.
Little GOD News
Mike's little brother, Jeff, had a wonderful experience on
December 23 when he played at the United Center. He is pictured above on
the red line (left) and taking a shot (right). Jeff scored 6 goals in 2
Christmas Tournament games.
You can find more pictures at: http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Base/9522/UCjeff.htm
Beak's letter to the editor:
Letters to the Editor
Chicago Sun Times
401 N. Wabash
Chicago, IL 60611
Dear Editor,
I just started my one week of
holiday unemployment, followed by 1 week of vacation and I didn't think anything
could get me to sit down and type a letter. I have been teaching in the
Chicago Public Schools since I graduated from college in 1962. Back then,
there was a severe teacher shortage and the CPS leaders didn't know how to think
"Global". They solved the problem by welcoming people like me
from Downers Grove and all of the other suburbs, to work in their system.
Is it possible that an old solution could work again?
The story on page 2 of Sunday's
paper, "Schools to recruit overseas" makes me want to laugh or cry,
but then again it made me angry enough to write you a letter.
? I want to laugh at the near sighted vision of the "global
thinking" of the present CPS leadership.
? I want to cry because of the cost of the recruitment of foreign teachers.
The money that will be spent on over paid recruiters flying around the world
eating expensive meals and staying at costly hotels could be better spent on
supplies, computers and class size reduction.
Maybe they could give me 3 weeks of paid vacation after 38 years of service.
(I'm sure they will have to offer more than 2 weeks of paid vacation to the new
foreign recruits.)
There are many qualified certified teachers that are banned from teaching in
Chicago because they live outside of the city limits. Most of the
qualified suburban teacher candidates take jobs as assistants in the suburbs
because there are many more applicants than there are positions. If you
really need teachers, all you have to do is go to any principal in the suburbs
and ask him for all of the resumes that are filed in the circular file every
August.
Gery Chico and Paul Vallas have
done a fine job with the school system, but they should realize that there are
thousands of qualified English speaking teachers only 10 or 20 miles away. There
would be no travel or over night costs for the recruiters. I would be
happy to help recruit! Can you really welcome people from outside of the United
States borders while you have a ban on U.S. citizens that live outside of the
city limits?
Science Lab Teacher
Greg Lopatka
January 14, 2000 Reporters Cammi Granato *** Rich
Storm Volume VI Issue 2
Friday 1/7/2000
The Ghost was accused of cheating when he put on glasses for the first time. I guess he got tired of goal tending with the Braille method. The cheaters didn't work, Rich Storm spoiled his shut out on his first shift, with the first goal of the Millennium. Papa Joe walked in and scored the first meaningful goal of the Millennium. Fruit cake tied the score for a while, but Beer Nuts scored the game winner in the third period. Stump picked up the win as Eddie was locked up in Mayberry.
Brinks Report
The
Next Peoria Road Trip
We are not getting a bus for Peoria because we have too many
late starters. The latest that we can play on Friday is 3:30. we
have 4 Van-ATVs that can leave early. The King and a few others are leaving
later. Fred is going up Saturday. Be there Friday to make your reservations.
A group of retired, self employed Duffers with sick days will leave late Friday
morning. This is the First Peoria Road Trip of the Millennium! Friday
January 28, 2000 the Rivermen have Friday and Saturday home games. Call in sick
now.
Uncle Bob got Club House Designs (630) 616-9357 to donate some Duffer hats for a Peoria Beer fund raiser. Hats are priced at $10.00 if you go to Peoria you get a $5.00 rebate. All proceeds will pay for Road trip beer.
The Mayor of Hayward is always ready to
open the city up to us!
Let's go to Hayward in March!
January 21, 2000 Reporters Cammi Granato *** Rich
Storm Volume VI Issue 3
Friday 1/14/2000
Rich Storm continued his hot scoring last week when he
added a hat trick to his 2 goal per game (New Millennium) average.
Hitman had the only meaningful goal of the game to give the Home team a 1-0 win.
The Duffer News Doesn’t usually give ink to meaningless scoring, but this game
featured some strange goals that merit recognition.
Johnny Z fired a pass from the corner to “Butt Head”
who started spinning like Beer commercial star, Rusty Robert. You know
that steel hockey player that knocks out Tony the plastic player with his shot,
then call him a punk. Well Morgan did the same thing, he spun around and
the puck flew off of his stick past the Ghost for a goal for the Blues.
The best goal of the night tied the game at 7-7 and gave Rich Storm his hat
trick. Mike waited until Stump shifted his weight on his bad hip, then he
fired a shot, make that launched a shot the Tweedy described as an illegal pitch
in softball, that fluttered into the lower right corner of the net for the game
tying goal.
Brinks Report
If you had a problem printing that large jpg last week,
you should able to print it now. Go to: http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Base/9522/1-14-00.htm
The
Next Peoria Road Trip
We are not getting a bus for Peoria because we have too many
late starters. The latest that we can play on Friday is 3:30. we
have 4 Van-ATVs that can leave early. The King and a few others are leaving
later. Fred is going up Saturday. Be there Friday to make your reservations.
A group of retired, self employed Duffers with sick days will leave late Friday
morning. This is the First Peoria Road Trip of the Millennium! Friday
January 28, 2000 the Rivermen have Friday and Saturday home games. Call in sick
now.
Uncle Bob got Club House Designs (630) 616-9357 to donate some Duffer hats for a Peoria Beer fund raiser. Hats are priced at $10.00 if you go to Peoria you get a $5.00 rebate. All proceeds will pay for Road trip beer.
The Mayor of Hayward is always ready to
open the city up to us!
Let's go to Hayward in March!
January 28, 2000 Reporters Cammi Granato *** Rich
Storm Volume VI Issue 4
Friday 1/21/2000
The Peoria Road Trip
We will be staying at the Holiday Inn in Downtown Peoria. Holiday Inn 500 Hamilton Blvd. Phone: 800-474-2501
Uncle Bob got Club House Designs (630) 616-9357 to donate some Duffer hats for a Peoria Beer fund raiser. Hats are priced at $10.00 if you go to Peoria you get a $5.00 rebate. All proceeds will pay for Road trip beer. Thanks UB, we finally found a way to get more than 10 guys to go to Peoria.
February 4, 2000 Reporters Cammi Granato *** Rich
Storm Volume VI Issue 5
Friday 1/28/2000
Saturday 1/29/00
Hats off to Klinger for staying awake during most of the week end after a 10 hour flight from Japan. Ask him about toilet paper, cold pizza and phone sleep.
Can you recognize this scalp?
Thanks to Don and the Rivermen
Hint* Those are hacksaw scars.
Uncle Bob got Club House Designs (630) 616-9357 to donate some Duffer hats for a Peoria Beer fund raiser. Hats are priced at $10.00 if you go to Peoria for the week end, you get a $5.00 rebate. All proceeds will pay for Road trip beer. Thanks UB, we finally found a way to get more than 10 guys to go to Peoria.
Road Kill Sausages were greatly appreciated, thanks Bob.
No trip is complete without the Kings
Berzerk feels a sausage moving in.
eagle eye on the bill. Sam Adams $120
February 11, 2000 Reporters Cammi Granato *** Rich
Storm Volume VI Issue 6
Friday 2/4/2000
Valentine Rendezvous
Do you have an autographed picture of Andy
Devine?
Did you pay for your Peoria Hat?
February 18, 2000 Reporters Cammi Granato *** Rich
Storm Volume VI Issue 7
Friday 2/11/2000
Former Blackhawk, Ken Hodge, who scored 50 goals for Boston in 1974 and finished his NHL career with 328 goals and 800 points may join us on the ice Saturday, March 4 in Peoria, according to his son Dan. Let us know if you are going, so we can put in our order for Peoria goalies and skaters.
That shut out talk really works! Duffer GOD Jeff Lopatka’s mite team was being shut out 3-0 on Saturday, when Beak told his son Ken about the jinx. Jeff spoiled the shut out 10 seconds later and added a hat trick to lift his team to a tie.
Thank You To!!!
February 25, 2000 Reporters Cammi Granato *** Rich
Storm Volume VI Issue 8
Friday 2/18/2000
Things I heard on the Coconut Telegraph
Happy Birthday to Frank and Mike who just turned 94 and Beak will Turn 60 on 2/26/00. Frank and Beak went to watch the Riverman with Brinks and Piggy Bank. They were in the party box with the owner of the Green Bay Gamblers. He invited the Duffers to return to Green Bay. He always felt secure when Duffers were shooting at the open net for prizes.
March 3, 2000 Reporters Cammi Granato *** Rich Storm
Volume VI Issue 9
Friday 3/3/2000
Hacksaw's Hat
Hacks Hawrysio
| Peoria Road Trip Saturday March 4, we will meet at the Holiday Inn on Highway 83, just south of I-55. (There is a Denny’s next door if you want breakfast) We will leave at 10:00 AM so that we can play at 12:30 PM. in the Civic Center Rink. We will have a meal, then return to the rink for the Rivermen’s Game. We will stay at the Holiday Inn, have Breakfast and return home on Sunday. |
| Directions to the Peoria Civic Center: Take I-55 and go Southwest for 106 miles. Take I-74 and go West for 34.7 miles. Exit at the (Civic Center exit #94) |
| Holliday Inn 309-674-2500 PEORIA CIVIC CENTER 201 SW Jefferson, Peoria, IL Phone: (309) 673-8900 Call Jim now for a room |
Hayward trip is March 31!
| If you are having a problem reading the text below, see the senior friendly box below. |
|
I have the long awaited answer that some of you
have been hounding me about. I just talked to His Honor da Mayor.
He is the Hayward goalie, Zamboni driver, tournament director and bar
tender in chief of the Beer drinking contest. He will have Ice for
us on Friday March 31 and Saturday April 1. |
This Easy to read Box is provided for our Senior Duffers
| I have the long awaited answer that some of you
have been hounding me about. I just talked to His Honor da Mayor.
He is the Hayward Goalie, Zamboni driver, tournament director and bar
tender in chief of the Beer drinking contest. He will have Ice for
us on Friday March 31 and Saturday April 1. Please check your calendar and let Beak know if you can make it. lopatka@ix.netcom.com We would like to get a bus full of Strohs and food that would leave the morning of Friday 3/31 and return sometime Sunday evening. There is some incentive for participating this year. Muzzy will go only if we have a bus. We need 15 to make a bus cost effective. |
It has been a few years since we won the beer trophy.
March 10, 2000 Reporters Cammi Granato *** Rich Storm Volume VI, Issue 11
March 3-4, 2000
Harvey Hacks Hawrysio
| Harvey scored the only meaningful goal on Friday to lead the Whites to a 1-0 meaningful win. The Whites used their home advantage (First right of refusal) to send Alien to the Blues and then they kept Harvey, who delivered the winning blow. Harvey continued his hot scoring in Peoria the following day as he poked 3 goals in when everyone else was tired and in the showers. Tweedy was spectacular in the nets until that time. After the game, Harvey went into the locker and took a quick shower (He has this realistic fear of being left behind by his team mates, it's called Behindaphobia) and whipped out his big hair dryer and plugged it in , only to blow a fuse. He had a bad hair day as you can see in the pictures below. The number 1 stars of the week end were Rich Storm, Tommy Z, Uncle Bob, The King, Beer-nuts, Beak, Wheezer, Tweedy, and Harvey. |
Perils in Peoria
| The Rivermen continued their
winning ways with the Duffers present. They are 8-1 with Duffers
present, the only loss came when Alien showed up. Coach Granato is
looking into permanent name tags in the locker room for regular road
Duffers. (guys who have made 6 or 7 trips) Beer nuts placed tape
name tags last time, but they were all gone except for his. We had a few drinks with co-owner Anne Griffith and the King had a trade for Jason Christie all worked out. She wanted Stump, the Anvil and Beer nuts, but the King nixed the deal when she wanted our dancer, Harvey, tossed in. Anne also owns Jimmy the Saints Bar in Peoria. Now we know why she wanted Beer nuts. |
| Bob Plager was in Denver, but he called Donny G and sent the Duffers a joke by phone. Beer-nuts sent a couple of them back until it got too hot for the air waves. |
March 24, 2000 Reporters Cammi Granato ***
Rich Storm Volume VI, Issue 12
March 17, 2000
Beak, Boris and Bobka Bang the
Blues
| Friday turned out to be family night, as Jerry and Eric Miceli returned to action with their Dad, while Beak had his two sons and two grandsons. The Miceli and Lopatka clans supplied 70% of the players. 15 year old Duffer GOD, Mike, started trash talking before the game. He called his Dad and Uncle old wimps, he was nice enough to leave his grandpa out of the age war. Mike found out that it's not smart to stir up emotions before the game. Mike's Dad flattened him on the opening face off and his uncle Dan was in the nets for the Whites and he stopped everyone of Mike's shots. If that wasn't | bad enough, Grandpa Beak stripped the puck from Mike and walked
in on "The Anvil" for a break away shot that Eddie was able to
poke away. The only problem was, his poke went right to Hacksaw, who
pushed it into the net to give the Whites a 1-0 meaningful lead. Beak made it 2-0 with a shot that rolled up The Anivil's arm and then down his back and wobbled into the net. "Fruit Bread" Bobka iced the game with a goal that made it 3-0 meaningful and Mike's Dad scored 2 to make it 5-2 meaningless. It looked like the outcomes were settled, but then it happened. The Alien |
scored a meaningful goal for the Blues that sparked 3 more meaningless
goals to take the meaningless lead 6-5. Mike Presecky used a tip
that he got from Tweedy in Peoria to score a beautiful goal on Dan. He
won't be getting any more tips. The whites pulled their goalie and
8 year old Jeff went out there and helped Koss score the tying goal with
14 seconds left in the game. The Blues registered a pre game
protest because they only had 3 meaningful players. |
| Stump and Tweedy in Hayward (1995) | Last time we won the Beer Trophy |
| 25 Passenger Limo. Larry,DranoTweedy, Dill Deau and Wheezer. | Harvey, Koss, Hacksaw, Larry. Berserk,Wheezer and Bluto |
| Berserk, Butt Head, Bluto, Beevis, TZ, Harvey and Beak | Harvey, Beak, Spillman, Beer Nuts, Stump, Koss and Draino. |
Mike's Music Video Débuts
| Friday Nights Soundtrack (A Duffer Music Anthology)Mike Presecky just released the long awaited Duffer music CD, and it sold out immediately. The CD contains 17 songs that have been sung by Duffers over the years. In between songs, Mike has placed short clips from Slap Shot that give the CD an "R" rating. The CD is available to all Duffer fans for $9.95 plus Shipping and Handling. Make checks out to Duffers Hockey. Here are just a few of the songs on the CD: Right Back Where We Started, Elvira, City of New Orleans, One Ton Tomato, New York, New York, Money for Nothing, On the Road again, Dubuque, Dubuque, Walk all Night, We Don't Need No Education and many more. Thanks for all of the suggestions, Mike is starting a folder for Volume II that will include Rocky. |
Visit the page inspired by Dancing Harvey
| Harvey gets the Shaving cream ear. | The Hayward class of 96 |
Injury Report
Wheezer wrecked his shoulder at work. He is OK for
Hayward
Uncle Bob did not break his wrist, the Doctor said it was a
sprain
Brinks is doing well he's is itching to get back
| Get ready for the Duffer Music CD. Here is a
Karaoke site that you can visit and practice 2 of the songs. New
York, New York and Margaritaville can be found there.
Remember to substitute "your" for "the", and
"legs" for "news" in New York, New York.
Margaritaville has all of the correct words, so no substitutions
are necessary. That Karoke site can be found at: http://geocities.com/Broadway/3386/main2.html |
March 31, 2000 Reporters Cammi Granato ***
Rich Storm Volume VI, Issue 13
March 24, 2000
Alien Steals the Show!
| The meaningless scoring started early for the Blues, with
Sonofrank flipping in a backhand rebound off a Miller Lite shot on The
Ghost. Minutes after, Kenny answered with a shot from the slot that found it's way past Tweedy. A few minutes later, Klinger was defending Sonofrank 1 on 1 when he claimed an assist on his second goal. “Your stick would've never moved that way if I wasn't hindering you like I was.” Blues now led 2-1 meaningless. Miller Lite continued the Blues scoring. After several failed attempts to set up his Old Man, Lite decided to take matters into his own hands and go top shelf on The Ghost to give the Blues a 3-1 Cushion. |
 The margin didn't stay that way for long as
Tommy Morgan started the second period scoring with a breakaway.
Morgan moved to his left and flipped a back-hander in to the right, as
Tweedy went for the fake. Uncle Bob then evened the score on a one timer from the point at 10 m.p.h., another case of Danny going for the Velocity Fake. Lite added another goal for the Blues later in the second on a slap shot from the circle. With the score tied 5-5 in the third, The unexplainable happened. |
Sonofrank, now playing defense, passed to Lite deep in the White zone, Lite slid a pass to Alien in front of the net… AND THEN IT HAPPENED, Alien gave up a SHOT, passed it to Thor on the other side of the net for a 6-5 win, and a 1-0 Meaningful Victory. The Meaningful score could have been a tie, but the suspected White meaningful goal could not be confirmed. *Those goals are always counted if The meaningful Goal Scorer shows up at Henry’s to claim his goal. |
| Everybody is swatting at the puck. | Fast action in the White zone |
| Alien takes a dive. See the story below. | Play was stopped for laughter. |
| Gary the Ghost Kasper gets ready for a blast. | The King's stamina has him playing 3 periods now! |
| Alien Slays The Duffers On
Breakaway
There was a rare non picnic "Fun Tax"
assessed to all the Duffers last Friday for being witness to The Alien
Breakaway. In the Middle of the 3rd period, with the Blues ahead
6-5, Alien broke into open ice all alone, a chance to ice the meaningful
win for the blues. With the closest White defender on the other
side of the ice, Bill crossed the blue line with his best opportunity of
the game. A second later, his feet came up behind him as he looked
like Pete Rose sliding head-first into second - Rich Storm |
Mike's Music Video Débuts
| Friday Nights Soundtrack (A Duffer Music Anthology)Mike Presecky just released the long awaited Duffer music CD, and it sold out immediately. The CD contains 17 songs that have been sung by Duffers over the years. In between songs, Mike has placed short clips from Slap Shot that give the CD an "R" rating. The CD is available to all Duffer fans for $9.95 plus Shipping and Handling. Make checks out to Duffers Hockey. Here are just a few of the songs on the CD: Right Back Where We Started, Elvira, City of New Orleans, One Ton Tomato, New York, New York, Money for Nothing, On the Road again, Dubuque, Dubuque, Walk all Night, We Don't Need No Education and many more. Thanks for all of the suggestions, Mike is starting a folder for Volume II that will include Rocky. |
Visit
the page inspired by Dancing Harvey
| The Hayward class of 96 |
If you didn't get your Jimmy Buffett tickets for Saturday,
July 29, 2000, then you will have to go to the Thursday concert. July 27, 2000.
The Saturday concert sold out quickly. I had fun in line with all of the
Parrot heads. There was a guy that was telling a story about his new motorcycle.
He was so excited that he flooded it and couldn't get it started, so he was
waxing it when he noticed bird poop on his wife's bike. After he cleaned
it up, he returned to his bike only to find the bird splotched his bike.
He found a bird in the rafters of his garage and chased it out. He never
got to ride his new bike.
April 7, 2000 Reporters Cammi Granato *** Rich
Storm Volume VI, Issue 14
March 31, 2000
I Can't Remember!
| I can’t remember anything from the game Friday. I do
remember singing along with Rich Storm’s new CD, “Friday Night
Soundtrack.” It is amazing how fast all of the Duffers learned
the words to “The City of New Orleans”. I sent out the
following appeal for help on Wednesday and got some help: “I
started writing the newsletter and I can't remember anything that
happened Friday. Who won? Who scored? Meaningful?” The King’s reply: “I can help. The King for the first time in his career scored a "Hat rick". He also skated the whole game and was looking to play another game. Then He woke up.” |
Doc’s reply: “Who won? Blue (or maybe white) Who scored? I got one for blues: Meaningful? It was to me. Coughenour’s reply: Uncle Bob scored on one of two breakaways. Tattoo (formerly Gilbert) scored two tap in goals while sporting hisnew "unauthorized" Duffer Logo on his shoulder. Miller lite scored at least one on Gary. Stump returned to the ice to play defense instead of referee. Did Doc score? |
Danny
beat Eddie early, but only once. Beak took a pass from Thor,
popped it into the air, then slapped it past Eddie for the meaningful
win. Wheezer checked Allen into the boards. His feet were
still pumping furiously as he hit the ice horizontally. Non
Hayward Duffers at Henrys saw a good clean fight near the door and
promptly sang out Jerry, Jerry, Jerry! The King made an executive
decision to start planning a fully sanctioned Duffer trip to New Orleans
for next season! Count me in! |
| Sunday face | Saturday Face |
| Breakfast at the Nook! | Hey! Look at that 57! |
| No check means stick work. | Tweedy shoots, He Scores! |
Harvey and Beak Dazzle Hayward Goalies
| The Mayor of Hayward supplied us with 2 teen age goalies who were
way to quick for their own good One was heard complaining that
Duffers were boring, Then Beak faked a slap shot and slid a slow wrist
shot past him. Ken blew a slap shot past him, while Tweedy blew
one past the other goalie. Harvey rolled a couple of shots past
the White goalie and finished the night with 4 goals, After Beak
deflected two more past him, he said we were lucky. Beak finished
the night with 5 goals past the bored goalie. Tweedy played 3
games on Saturday and 1 on Sunday. His team lost the championship
to the Hayward Muskies, when Mayor Duffy shut them out. We had a great time in Hayward, but we lost the beer drinking contest. We needed a few more drinkers to help us out. We also lost the battle to stay under $200. We needed 3 more guys to break even. What did you learn in Catholic school? When you are short of money, have a fund raiser. We are planning a Hayward Bowling fund raiser in June and a Hayward video sneak preview on April 14 at the Beak Deck. Harvey’s dancing video will also be shown. A fun Tax may be assessed if you have too much fun. Beak’s wife is out of town that week end. If you are having trouble getting out for a road trip, get your lady signed up on Mrs. Beak’s bowling team. It worked for Ken and Uncle Bob! Graffiti Masterpiece.
|
Muzzy and Harvey were asleep by 11:00 PM.
Another Duffer MPG
Click on the links below to view a 5 second
video
(Caution! there is locker room audio)
Locker
Room
Smoking
Locker Room
Smoking
Locker Room 2
Cammi has 4 goals
| U.S. Women's National Team Blanks
Russia, 15-0, At IIHF Women's World Championship. MISSISSAUGA, Ont. (April 4, 2000) -- The 2000 United States Women's National Team downed Russia, 15-0, in 2000 International Ice Hockey Federation Women's World Championship action here Tuesday evening. All but one skater on the U.S. roster registered a point in the runaway win. Cammi had 2 goals and 1 assist. Cammi also had 2 goals as U.S. Women's National Team Defeated Germany, 16-1. Beak and Wheezer are checking into a “Bed and Breakfast” in MISSISSAUGA, Ontario Saturday. They will see the Semi final game on Saturday and the Gold Medal game on Sunday. |
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http://hometown.aol.com/splt2ndtow/splitsecondhomepage.html
Visit
the page inspired by Dancing Harvey
| If you didn't get your Jimmy Buffett tickets for
Saturday, July 29, 2000, then you will have to go to the Thursday
concert. July 27, 2000. The Saturday concert sold out quickly.
There are a number of Duffers that are going to the Thursday 7/27/00
Jimmy Buffett concert. Those tickets are on sale now. If You have
a ticket for Saturday, you can join us at Daughter of Frank's
Parrot head party on Saturday 7/29/00. Son of Frank will
have a bus at that party to take us to the concert. You don't want
to miss this one. Report by Rich Storm |
| Get ready for the Duffer Music CD. Here is a
Karaoke site that you can visit and practice 2 of the songs. New
York, New York and Margaritaville can be found there.
Remember to substitute "your" for "the", and
"legs" for "news" in New York, New York.
Margaritaville has all of the correct words, so no substitutions
are necessary. That Karoke site can be found at: http://geocities.com/Broadway/3386/main2.html |
Don Granato Does it Again!
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| Peoria sweeps Dayton in Three! The first post season series ever between these two former affiliates begins tonight with game one of their best-of-5 Northern Conference Quarterfinal Series. Peoria finished the regular season atop the northern Conference with a record of 45-20-5, backing in to the top seed when Roanoke lost its' last 3 games. Dayton has lost its' last 4 games and hasn't won on the road since a February 22, 4-1 decision at Huntington. Game two of this series will be at Carver Arena on Wednesday, April 5 with games 3 and 4 moving to the Nutter Center near Dayton, Ohio. Game 3 is scheduled for Thursday, April 6 and Game 4, if necessary will be played on Tuesday, April 11. If a game 5 is needed the series moves back to Peoria with the game set for Wednesday, April 12. Dayton entered the ECHL in 1991 and has made the post season in each of its' 9 seasons. During that span, the Bombers have gone 10-24 in post season games, winning only one first round series. That win came in the 1994-95 playoffs when the Bombers eliminated Huntington, 3 games to 1. Dayton has lost 3 of their series in 3 game sweeps and has taken two to the full 5-game format. The Rivermen had to feel good entering the last two weeks of the season, having just finished the franchises most successful road schedule, winning 23 of 35 games and facing 5 straight at home, including 3 games against cellar dwellars Wheeling and Toledo. After being stung by the Nailers for two straight losses at home Roanoke came into Carver Arena for a game to determine the Northern Conference's top seed. The Express would end the season with 3 road games after playing in Peoria. Roanoke left Peoria with a 3-point lead over the Rivermen and needed only a win to take the top seed. The Express would lose all 3 games while the Rivermen bounced back with consecutive wins over Toledo (6-4) and Dayton (4-1) to capture the Northern Conference for the 2nd time in 3 seasons. As the Rivermen enter the playoffs for their 4th straight season the team looks to improve on its' past two playoff series. The last time the Rivermen won the Northern Conference regular season they opened with Hampton Roads and got swept by a team that went on to win the Kelly Cup. Last year, Peoria opened with Toledo and after trouncing the Storm in game one, lost the next 3 straight to bow out in the first round for the second straight season. This season brings a new coach and a different team to the post season. Peoria's post season mark is 8-9, which includes 2 series the Rivermen swept and one in which the Rivermen were swept. Peoria has yet to go the full 5 games in any of its' 5 playoff series. The Rivermen playoff roster includes some players currently with Worcester (AHL), Trevor Wasyluk, Cody Rudkowsky, and Matt Smith. Didier Tremblay returned from Worcester today and the others are expected soon. Left off the roster was James Desmarais, who was reassigned to Worcester following Friday's game vs. Toledo and Luke Gruden who was placed on the 14-day Injured Reserve list following Saturday's game with Dayton. Also back from the IR is Trevor Baker. The Rivermen are led in scoring by Joe Rybar, with 17G/51A. Rybar led the team in assists, also. Blaine Fitzpatrick leads the team in goals scored with 31, and adds 32 assists for as the team's 2nd leading scorer. Fitzpatrick led the team in PP goals (10) and game winning scores (6). Duane Derksen won 30 games for Peoria, setting a new team franchise mark for wins and had the league's 2nd highest total. The Rivermen won 26 games against Northwest Division teams, winning 7 games each against Toledo, Dayton and Huntington. Against the Northeast Division, Peoria went 12-5-1, winning 6 games on the road. The Rivermen also took a 7-3-0 record against the Southern Conference sweeping season series against Baton Rouge, Mississippi, Arkansas and Birmingham. The only teams to dominate Peoria this season were Johnstown, winning 3 of the 4 games against Peoria, and New Orleans, who swept the Rivermen, 2-0-0. Peoria ended the regular season with the most goals scored in the first (94) and second periods (105) and average 3.90 a game, the league's 6th highest total. The Rivermen allow the least shots on net by the opposition, at 26.23, while taking the ECHL's 2nd most shots on goal (35.94). Peoria dominated the season series with Dayton taking 7 of the 10 games played, including the last 5 in the series. At Carver Arena, Peoria has a 4-0-1 mark this season. |
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14 Beak Deck Videos May 19 Season ends June ? Duffer Bowling July 27 Jimmy Buffett July 29 Jimmy Buffett |
April 14, 2000 Reporters Cammi Granato ***
Rich Storm Volume VI, Issue 15
April 7, 2000
Klinger Crashes
Gary the Ghost Kasper made the save of the year when he robbed
Beer-Nuts with a quick glove. Stump was victimized early by a red
hot Beak (7 goals in 3 games). That goal gave the Whites an early
Meaningful lead.  |
Klinger tied the game when he
fired a bullet past the Ghost. He watched that goal sail into the
net instead of watching the boards race up at him. You guessed it,
the boards made a loud sound as Klinger crashed into them. He
probably would have been hurt, but as you know, when you score, you feel
no pain. |
Bobka scored to give the Blues a 2-1 meaningful win.
I can’t remember the meaningless score. The only reason I
remember the Fruit cake tally is because Fred stopped me in the parking
lot and told me he couldn’t go to Henry’s and pour the
reporters a beer, because his son was there. I don’t get it,
kids have to learn how to sleep at a bar. |
| Man in the Moon! | Cammi faces off |
| Cammi warms up | Hey! This is no check hockey. |
| No check means stick work. | The Annual Musky picture. |
Peoria Road Trip
| Tickets for the next two Rivermen home playoff games are available
NOW. The first of these will be on Sunday, April 16th at 3:00 PM, with
the second being Tuesday, April 18th at 7:00 PM. Check the schedule for
the other dates of this round. The Peoria Rivermen front office staff has put together a trip for fans wishing to attend the two Northern Conference Semi-final games in Johnstown on April 21 and 22. The bus will leave from `Peoria late Thursday afternoon stopping near Dayton, Ohio for the evening. After a leisurely breakfast the fans will hit the road for Johnstown, arriving in the afternoon. After an included hotel dinner buffet, fans can walk the short two blocks to the historic Cambria County Memorial Coliseum for game #3 of the Peoria/Johnstown series. (Historic because the hockey fanatic knows that was where the motion picture "Slapshot" was filmed). Saturday is a day of leisure in Johnstown with time to visit the Flood Museum, take the funicular up the nearby hills or trek up the hill to the shopping district. The host hotel has an indoor pool and is right in downtown Johnstown. Both games are at 7:30 PM with the hotel a short 2 blocks from the arena. We will spend the night after the game to prepare for the ride home on Sunday, leaving for Peoria promptly at 8:30 AM. The price is $250 for double occupancy ($185, for triple and $175 for quad) and includes round trip bus from Peoria to Johnstown, 3 nights hotel (1 near Dayton and 2 nights in Johnstown), dinner buffet on Friday night at the hotel, and tickets to both games. For complete details contact the Rivermen office at 676-1040. Seating is limited to the first 50 fans only so don't delay.
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| Bomber Fans in Hayward!
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Wheezer gets help opening some beers.
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Cammi is Named Outstanding Forward
| U.S. Women's National Team Wins
Silver! At IIHF Women's World Championship. MISSISSAUGA, Ont. (April 4, 2000) -- Beak and Wheezer watched Cammi and the USA women down Sweden 7-1 on Saturday. On Sunday, USA out shot Canada 32 to 23, only to lose 3-2 in overtime the Attendance was 4,890. Saturday’s game had penalties for checking, Sunday’s game had no rules. |
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| If you didn't get your Jimmy Buffett tickets for
Saturday, July 29, 2000, then you will have to go to the Thursday
concert. July 27, 2000. The Saturday concert sold out quickly.
There are a number of Duffers that are going to the Thursday 7/27/00
Jimmy Buffett concert. Those tickets are on sale now. If You have
a ticket for Saturday, you can join us at Daughter of Frank's
Parrot head party on Saturday 7/29/00. Son of Frank will
have a bus at that party to take us to the concert. You don't want
to miss this one. Put yourself in the picture below.
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April 21, 2000 Reporters Cammi Granato ***
Rich Storm Volume VI, Issue 16
Beer-Nuts Wins it!
Last week, Gary the Ghost Kasper made the save of the year when he
robbed Beer-Nuts with a quick glove save. This week, Beer-Nuts
avenged that robbery with a goal on his first shift. The Blues
were loaded with young talent. Duffer GOD (Grandson of a Duffer)
Mike Lopatka, brought one of his Downers Grove South High School
teammates. They also had Tommy Z, Tommy M and “The Prince”
while the Whites were loaded with old timers. |
Jeff Lopez, scored for the
Blues but Johnny Z and Ken Lopatka evened the score at 2-2. The
expected blow out never materialized as Gary the ghost kicked every
thing out. The Blues came on strong with a Morgan goal that was
disallowed with an offside call and Harvey launched an air bomb that
found its way into the net with the help of a friendly glove.
The Beer-Nut goal stood up as the Meaningful winner. |
They then went to Peoria to see the Rivermen beat the Johnstown Chiefs, 4-3 in overtime. Beer-Nuts and Peoria Pete were there to cheer on the Rivermen. |
| Even the Kiel Center likes Pepsi! | The Sharks count down the seconds. |
| Sharks beat the Blues 4-2! | Coach Granato works on pre game plan. |
| Fierce overtime action. | Winning Goalie, Duane Derksen |
| Players and Coach Granato, congratulate Goalie Dirksen | Jason congratulates Beer nuts on his game winning Duffer goal. |
| Trevor Baker gets the playoff look! | Pavel, coach of the Slovania national team, Coach Granato, brother Rob and Daughter Allie. |
