League News

I am going to cut and paste from an email sent from Chad over with the Brahmas:

Killer-
throw it out on the blog that the Jaguars are no longer subject to forfiitting every game they play. Ivana just emailed me, and she has 10 full time players with a goalie who have all paid up legaue fees, and are ready to rock. So the Jags are back, in fact last week their games started counting.

Also let everyone know about the playoff format. Every team will make the playoffs, and will be seeded 1-10 based on how they finish the regular season. The 7-10 seeds will have a mini play in round with the 7 seed playing 10 and 8 playing 9. Once those winners are determined then it will be 8 teams remaining playing single elimination. We will have quarters one week, and then the next week will feature the two semi final games followed by an all star game, and then at 10 the championship match. Teams playing in the championship are not going to be allowed to send anyone to the all star game (unless something happens and players are needed). Then by 11:15 a new team will be skating the keg.


Killer's initial thoughts are that this is a good thing for the league. We have half a season left, and the playoff format is unveiled. I am sure some folks will offer resistance to this format, but it beats the shit out of the old format of playing one meaningless game and calling it the playoffs. These final 6 games will be interesting to see who ends up the number one seed.

State Wide I-League Tournament

There is a statewide I-League tournament going on this July 4th Weekend in College Station. There will be a team from Big D, Houston, Austin, College Station, San Antonio, and hopefully.......Tarrant County (hence the post).

The Arctic Wolf Ice Center is hosting a three day tournament July 3, 4, & 5. Cost to enter is $900 for a team, and you will be gauranteed 4 games. So if your team, or a couple teams want to band together contact this guy Hockey Director Josh Hand at jlhand@arcticwolfice.com or call him at 979-693-3900 x 110

www.arcticwolfice.com

From the looks of the blog traffic should we expect the Gators to play coached by Steve Hall?

Standings - Spring Week 6

Analysis will follow when I get a chance. Things are looking interesting.

I want to apologize to all the good strong blog readers for not being johnny-on-the-spot lately, my day job has required all my attention. Remember to thank the salespeople that work at your company, because during this economic situation, it's the salespeople working their asses off bringing in whatever business they can, that helps keeps the company you work for in business!

I also want to thank Killer and Fred and Beastie and everyone else who contributes in my absences.

Love,
Dickie

A Weekend of Big Upsets

Week 6 proved to be a week of upsets as the Bronze League closed out the first half of the season. Three of the top four teams in the league went down including the undefeated Stingers.

The Stingers went down 5-3 against the Hurricanes in what was probably the best game of the night. Stingers goalie Dana Fenelli had a broken skate issue, and Ice Gators Netminder Bruno was called in to take over. Bruno did a good job of stopping 22 or the 26 shots the high powered Hurricanes blew on the Stingers, but ultimately it was not enough. The Stingers offense could not keep pace, and the undefeated three time champs went down.

The upset of the night might have been the Keller Indians who fell to the Spider Monkeys 6-3. The Indians offense was stumped by Spider Monkey’s star goalie, Mike Best who stopped 28 of 31 shots.

The next big upset of the night actually came Sunday morning as the Tomcast Senators beat the Ice Gators 8-4. Senators goaltender Rush “Mexico” Rector was solid stopping 39 of 43 shots from the high powered Gators offense. Gators sniper Zach Gunter had several one on one breakaways, but could only get past Mexico one time. Senators offense was led by Mac Donovan who notched a hat trick, and Matt Davis who had a four point night.

Dickie will post the full standings later. The best record still belongs to the Stingers who sit at 5- 1, but there is now a big group of teams one game back chasing in the quest for Lord Stanley’s Keg. The Indians, Sens, Canes, and Gators are all sitting on 4-2 and Mid Aid is just two back at 3-3. Mid Air did pitch a shut out against the bullets this week BTW.

Also it looks like the Jaguars have almost weathered a terrible storm as their roster is just one or two shy of being ready to stop forfeiting every game. They need a goalie, and word on the street is one is coming soon.