The Hockey Gods are Pleased

Just got this email from the League Office at NYTEX.

The Keg has been found! We caught one of the Brahmas trying to fill it with beer! (Not)

Currently, name plates are on order for the last five season champions. Assuming there is no unforeseen problems, name plates of past season champions will be in place for the championship game a the end of this season.

Jeff Bohl
Hockey Operations Manager
Nytex Sports Centre

Sweet.

Awesometown

Check out these two YouTube clips on Bob Sturm's blog from yesterday (the 19th)

Ovechkin working his magic, and a Kiprusoff display of absolute larceny.

You won't regret it.

http://stars.nhl.com/blogs/sturm/stars.htm

Thursday Results

Stingers over Rangers 6-1. The game was actually A LOT closer than the scoreboard.

Didn't get a score for the other game, can anyone help?

-DD

Thursday Night Matchups

Thursday, Feb 19 Game Previews

8:15 PM Stingers @ Arlington Rangers - Parks Mall

• Rangers are 2-0 after an overtime shoot out win vs. Arlington Caps last week
• Stingers venture outside the nurturing bosom of the NYTEX facility for the first time in almost 2 years. What danger lies ahead?

9:45 PM Arlington Capitals - Parks Mall @ Arlington Sens - Parks Mall

• Capitals have a regulation loss vs the Ice Gators, and lost a tight game last week to Range. They'll be looking for their first blood of the season.
• Arlington Sens are 2-0 having only played NYTEX teams, this will be their first "Conference" game vs a Parks opponent.

-DD

Thanks everybody!

The blog is about a week old and several emails have come in showing support for this undertaking. We have had several dozen unique page visits every day for the last three days, and people spend several minutes on each visit - We're flattered and amazed that this 'done blowed up' so fast.

We'll try to keep the momentum going by posting new stuff every day, it might be directly related to our league, it might be hockey in general. If you have a specific topic you'd like to see us talk about, or if you want to just submit an article or editorial, email dickiedunnblog@gmail.com and if it doesn't totally suck, we'll probably use it.

If you're anything like me, hockey is what I look forward to on the weekends, and I'm thinking about it all week. Hopefully, this will be a way we can all stay on the same page and get to know each other a little bit better.

Planned features:

• Weekly game recaps/standings updates
• Weekly 3 Stars (make sure you nominate teammates who you think should be recognized for on- and off-ice contributions to the team/league)
• X's and O's talk (will be aimed at learning something new about playing the game of hockey. I'm gonna need some help here!)
• Upcoming Matchups for the week
• Team Profiles - Send us an email telling a little history of your team, how long you've been playing together, a team picture, a link to your team website. The idea here is that we all get to know the people we face off against each week a little better.

Filling in the blank

• On last Thursday's Caps/Rangers game - After 3 goals for each side, Arlington Rangers won in Sudden Death Shoot-Out. Game winner was scored by Rangers #6 Michael Burr.

Thursday Night Senior Drop-In 10:15p

For those Bonze Leaguers who do not have a game scheduled at the Parks Mall Thursday, you hockey weenie is in luck.

NYTEX has a Thursday night open adult hockey session on their schedule at 10:15pm, see: http://www.usarinks.com/connect3/SilverStream/Pages/pgAPPRPT_DailyEvents.html?fac=nytexsports&facility_id=1

Week 4 Standings

League Standings after week 4 -

There are several games played at the Parks mall for which we have no result. Can anyone help with this?

Week 4 - Three Stars

What do you guys think about a "Weekly Three Stars" feature? I'll take nominations via email @ dickiedunnblog@gmail.com

Information to include in your nomination:

1)Player's name and team name
2)What they did that week to earn the nod (breakout performance, good sportsmanship, washed your car, whatever.)
3)How long they've been playing in the league
4)Your name (can be anonymous)

Heavier weight will be given to nominations of players who have less than 3 seasons under their suspenders. Players can only be named once per season, and never more than one per team will be named per week. They don't have to be players, they could be folks involved in our league who go above and beyond the call of duty.

Example this week:

1) Brandon Rosser - #26 Stingers - in only his second season, and having only scored one career goal prior to Saturday, Brandon scored a hat trick. Where did that come from?!?!?

2) Ivana Galan - #5 Jaguars - The diminutive Ivana had an assist vs the Stingers this weekend, but earns this star for having the guts to fearlessly jump over the boards every Saturday and face off against guys who are twice as tall and weigh three times as much!

3) The ZuRoma's guys - These guys were up against HIGH expectations, because we had heard they were "about to open" a bar for the last 2 years. I don't know about you guys, but they have definitely exceeded my expecations. When was the last time you had service this fast at ANY restaurant? And the food is pretty good too.

Referee Fashions

Nice Hat.

Week 4 Results

Arlington Sens defeated the visiting Arc Angels 8-4 on Thursday Night.

I don't have a result for Bolts/Rangers on Thursday, can I get a little help?

Ice Gators narrowly avoided the shootout and beat the Arlington Capitals in overtime, 4-3. Capitals were working with a pretty short bench.

Stingers went off on the Jaguars 10-4. Things got spirited between the two teams at the end of the first period, and the enthusiasm carried through the handshake.

Keller Indians outshot the Senators almost 2:1 and won the game 8-3.

Mid-Air Collision beat the Spider Monkeys in a tight 3-2 game with almost identical SOG.

In the final matchup of the evening Saturday, the Dallas Lady Stars kept the Silver Bullets defense pretty busy. Final score was 7-4, with one of the 4 Bullets' goals scored by a Stars player trying to wake up her goalie, who was disappointed the game ended well past ZuRoma's last call.