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BTSH WEEKLY RECAP – WEEK 6
by Eli Kazin

The Games
THAT’S A VERY NICE JIG, KEARNEY. Brendan “Dutch” Kearney and Gavin Kearney each scored two goals, and Matthew Zimmerman added an insurance goal as the Corlears Hookers defeated the Tuques, 5-3. The Tuques were without their starting goalie and used Mathematics goalie Sarah Coombs as the replacement.

YES, SHANE, THAT REALLY WENT IN. Kevin Foster, Mike Sokolyansky, Shane DeBlasio, and Alexandre Frenette scored goals, and Dave Gil de Rubio registered the shutout, as Fresh Kills blanked the Bad Touch, 4-0. The win was the second in a row via shutout for Fresh Kills, and their fourth straight overall.

SOME PEOPLE ARE CONFUSED BY SHOOTOUTS. Arthur Revechkis gave the Mighty Squirrels the early lead, and Suvin Malik tied the game late in the first half for Filthy Gorgeous. After a scoreless second half and overtime, the game progressed into a shootout, where after two rounds, Joe Pereira’s goal was the lone tally. James Stein stopped the Mighty Squirrels final shot, which should have touched off a celebration for Filthy Gorgeous, except no one realized that the shootout was completed for a good fifteen seconds.

EL GUAPO IS SPANISH FOR THE HANDSOME ONE. Eric “El Guapo” DiPierri, filling in for starting goalie Mike O’Connor, allowed just one goal as the Gouging Anklebiters beat Mexican Standoff for their first victory of the season, 3-1. Megan Kelly, Nick Gardella, and Matt Tsiang scored for the Gouging Anklebiters, while Haanwa Chau scored the lone goal for Mexican Standoff, who continued their goalie rotation with Jeff “Peaches” Hendricks (first half) and John Bonfanti (second half).

DANIEL ALFREDSSON WAS HIS INSPIRATION. Just one day after Daniel Alfredsson’s overtime goal sent the Ottawa Senators to the Stanley Cup Finals, Micael Holmström scored the game-winning goal with 30 seconds left in regulation as the Denim Demons squeezed past the Mathematics, 2-1. Lena Moy-Borgen also scored for the Denim Demons, who were using backup goalie Noah Farkas, and Sharif “The Chocolate Buzzsaw” Corinaldi scored for the Mathematics.

TRY AS THEY MIGHT, THE LADIES CAN NOT RESIST ANT VENTOLIERI. Buoyed by the presence of a season-high six girls, Pork Fried Rice defeated the Sky Fighters, 4-3. Ant Ventolieri scored two goals and added two assists, Denis Monty contributed one goal and two assists, and Natasha Foy scored the game winner for Pork Fried Rice. Roderick Cruz of What The Puck played in goal for the Sky Fighters, and Ellery “The Nature Boy” Gillette was kept off the scoreboard, even though he does not play for the Sky Fighters or Pork Fried Rice.

ANOTHER SOLID WIN FOR THE UNICORNS. Chris Eng and Caitlin Ervin each scored two goals, and Ted Kilcommons and Hector “Showtime” Melendez added goals as the Unicorns sprinted by Cobra Kai, 6-2. Cobra Kai received goals from Dave Cicirelli and Ray Chan.

COREY “CHONGO” WINTERS IS PROUD TO BE FROM WINNIPEG. Winnipeg native Corey “Chongo” Winters scored two goals, including the game-winner, and Tom MacDonald and Darrell Hartman added two goals apiece as What The Puck remained undefeated with a 6-1 victory against the Dark Rainbows.

RAIN DOES NOT SLOW DOWN THE REHABS. Anthony Romeo recorded his second shutout of the season to lead the Rehabs to a 3-0 triumph against LBS.

Nickname Nook With Derek Tagliarino
These people will now be known as the following:
Ken Poulin of LBS is now The Alpha Male.
Zach Weiner of the Gouging Anklebiters is now Cryme Tyme.

Special Contest: This is your chance to fire back. It seems everyone in BTSH already has some sort of clever nickname for Eli and me. So now you can make it official. I challenge anyone who is reading this to submit (to derektag@gmail.com) the best nicknames you can think of for us. I will include the ones I deem the best in my next nook. I will also buy the winner one can of PBR (if I can get the league to finance it).

News and Notes
Jeff “Peaches” Hendricks used a sombrero in place of a goalie helmet, while Eric “El Guapo” DiPierri did not wear a helmet at all, but did use safety goggles. John Bonfanti, however, did choose to wear the traditional helmet…Why is it that Jennifer Chen of Fresh Kills is able to attend every game, but her fiancé, Brendan “Flounder” Hay, who played on Cobra Kai last season, is not even on a roster this season?…Most teams cheer when they score a goal, but the Corlears Hookers (and possibly Pork Fried Rice) choose not to…What The Puck’s win was their tenth straight dating back to the 2006 season…Unicorns goalie Craig Lacombe offered to play goal for the goalie-less Tuques, but his offered was declined by the Corlears Hookers, who stated that he could not play goal, but Sarah Coombs could…After the conclusion of the games at Corlears, a birthday cookout/beer fest for Alicia Walker of Fresh Kills took place with players from Fresh Kills, Bad Touch, and Mexican Standoff squaring off in two games of one-handed hockey (one hand on the stick, the other holding a beverage).

Upcoming Schedule
May 27th, 2007
No Games.

June 3rd, 2007
3pm Corlears 1 Fresh Kills vs. Corlears Hookers
3pm Corlears 2 Rehabs vs. Sky Fighters
3pm Moffo Denim Demons vs. Cobra Kai
4pm Corlears 1 LBS vs. Dark Rainbows
4pm Corlears 2 What The Puck vs. Mighty Squirrels
4pm Moffo Mathematics vs. Mexican Standoff
5pm Corlears 1 Pork Fried Rice vs. Bad Touch
5pm Corlears 2 Tuques vs. Unicorns
5pm Moffo GAME OF THE WEEK Filthy Gorgeous vs. Gouging Anklebiters
– These two teams met in the first round of the playoffs last year at Moffo, with Filthy Gorgeous winning, 7-1.

BTSH WEEKLY RECAP – WEEK 5
by Eli Kazin

The Games

KARSTEN PITCHON IS NOT A FAN OF THE BEACH. In the first game between the two teams since last season’s infamous “Beach Day”, Karsten Pitchon scored four goals, including the game winner, and Ken Poulin added a goal as LBS defeated Mexican Standoff, 5-3. Tim Olson, Tommy Cho, and Gary Cohen scored goals for Mexican Standoff, who utilized the goalie platoon of Cho (first half) and Haanwa Chau (second half).

THE PURPOSE OF A SHOOTOUT IS TO ELIMINATE TIES. Zack Tinkelman scored the tying goal with the extra attacker on and less than one minute remaining in regulation, and the Denim Demons rallied from a two-goal deficit to salvage a 2-2 tie against the Unicorns. Goalies Craig Lacombe and Jim Morris shined in the shootout, where neither team scored on any of the six attempts.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, COOP. Alex Eben Meyer, also known as Coop, celebrated his birthday with a goal, and Danny Canarick and Eric Devlin contributed goals as the Bad Touch rallied from a two-goal deficit to trump the Gouging Anklebiters, 3-2. Charles DeFranco scored both goals for the Gouging Anklebiters, who were playing with backup goalie Eric “El Guapo” DiPierri between the pipes.

FOR ONCE, THE MATHEMATICS HAD MORE FEMALES IN ATTENDANCE. In her first game of the 2007 season, Sarah Coombs recorded a shutout to lead the Mathematics past Pork Fried Rice, 5-0. The Mathematics received two goals from Andy Levine, including the game winner, two goals from Laura MacNeil, and one goal from Andy Pratt. Pork Fried Rice played without any females for the second straight week.

WITH AGE COMES WISDOM AND PATIENCE. Shane DeBlasio filled in for starting goalie Dave Gil de Rubio and pitched the shutout to lead Fresh Kills past the Rehabs, 2-0. Alexandre Frenette scored the game winning (assist Brice Rosenbloom) goal midway through the first half, and Dave Sokolyansky (assisted by Kevin Foster and B.R. Rolya) added an insurance goal in the second half for Fresh Kills, who received solid defensive play from Amy Jones and B.R.

ROB GORDEN COULD USE A PAIR OF SUNGLASSES. Despite being without six regular players, and having two goals disallowed, the Corlears Hookers coasted to a 6-3 victory as Mighty Squirrels goalie Rob Gorden struggled with the glare coming off of the shiny gold CH logo. Reilly Olson, Josh Sadlier-Brown, and Peter Putka each scored two goals for the Corlears Hookers, and Eric Cole, Craig Thompson, and Arthur Revechkis scored goals for the Mighty Squirrels.

CRUZ CONTROL. Roderick Cruz registered his first shutout of the season, and Tom MacDonald scored three goals, including the game winner, as What The Puck remained undefeated with a 5-0 victory against Cobra Kai.

THE PINK TEAM WAS DESTINED TO WIN ON MOTHER’S DAY. P.T. Walkley scored two goals, including the game winning goal midway through the second half, as the Dark Rainbows rallied from an early deficit to beat the Sky Fighters, 2-1. Trevor Tyrrell recorded 104 saves* (100 of which coming off the stick of Sky Fighters’ Martin Cejka), including many during the last five minutes of the game, for the Dark Rainbows.

JAMES HAD A GOOD DAY. James Pereira scored the only goal of the game late in first half, and James Stein recorded the shutout as Filthy Gorgeous blanked the Tuques, 1-0.

*This number may have been inflated by Dark Rainbows captain Sean Reynolds.

Nickname Nook With Derek Tagliarino

These people will now be known as the following:
Rachel Greene of the Mighty Squirrels is now A-Korn.
Sharif Corinaldi of the Mathematics is now The Chocolate Buzzsaw.

Power Play/Offsides

Power Play:
– Jason Rosenstock’s wardrobe. Unable to play due to a broken toe, Jason Rosenstock of Mexican Standoff took on the role of coach, and dressed the part with a three-piece olive green suit, hand-carved smoking pipe, and brown Bear Bryant style hat. Rosenstock roamed the sidelines with a clipboard and paper towel on which to draw plays, but was frequently seen angrily tossing his hat in a downward trajectory towards the pavement.

Offsides:
– Problems at Moffo. The games at Moffo started late due to a bicycle polo organization using the court until 3:30 PM, but more seriously, female league members were harassed in Spanish by a non-league affiliated Latino male at the bleachers while waiting to play in their games.

Next Week
May 20th, 2007
3pm Corlears 1 Mathematics vs. Denim Demons
3pm Corlears 2 Cobra Kai vs. Unicorns
3pm Moffo Sky Fighters vs. Pork Fried Rice
4pm Corlears 1 Gouging Anklebiters vs. Mexican Standoff
4pm Corlears 2 GAME OF THE WEEK Tuques vs. Corlears Hookers
– A sizable part of the Corlears Hookers roster played for the Tuques in 2006.
4pm Moffo Dark Rainbows vs. What The Puck
5pm Corlears 1 Filthy Gorgeous vs. Mighty Squirrels
5pm Corlears 2 Fresh Kills vs. Bad Touch
5pm Moffo LBS vs. Rehabs

GAMES SUNDAY JUNE 3, 2007!

note: the FIRST team listed is the HOME team, and C1 is the NORTH court, C2
is the SOUTH court (i might have mistakenly reversed this at one point, but
this is the correct designation).

03-Jun-2007
3pm C1 Fresh Kills vs. C.Hookers
3pm C2 Rehabs vs. Sky Fighters
4pm C1 Lbs vs. Dark Rainbows
4pm C2 WTP vs. Mighty Squirrels
5pm C1 PFR vs. Bad Touch
5pm C2 Tuques vs. Unicorns
3pm M Denim Demons vs. Cobra Kai
4pm M Mathmatics vs. Mexican Standoff
5pm M Filthy Gorgeous vs. G.Anklebiters
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GOGGLES!

there are still goggles left, AND i can reorder goggles, so just let me know
if you want a pair, either by email or just see me in person.
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BALLS!

we ordered 100 new mylec balls that haven’t arrived, and in addition to
having westside “bust my balls” about it all week – “yeah, sorry to say but
your BALLS are stuck in the mail! heh heh heh! hopefully they’re honor the
‘handle with care’ sticker on the box – i’d hate to see your BALLS get
mishandled! heh heh heh!” wonderfu – we need to deal with the temporary
shortage.

what this means to YOU is be conservative with the orange balls – chase up
any that go astray! we should be up to our necks in balls next week, but
this week, not so much.
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METAL NETS!

yes! the parks dept. said ok to our plan to store metal goal frames at
corlears! gary of mighty squirrels is working on building them for us!
whoooooooo!
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ARE YOU ON A ROSTER?

be aware – spot roster checks will start to occur this sunday. you can’t
play unless you are on a roster and have submitted a registration/waiver. if
a team is found to be playing an unregistered or unrostered player…
forfeit.
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WOMENS ISSUES MEETING

on wednesday june 6, 2007 at parkside lounge (attorney/houston) from
6:30-7:40pm we will have an open meeting to discuss a range of womens issues
in respect to btsh. anyone with anything to contribute is welcome to attend,
but PLEASE reserve in advance with me – just send me an email to state that
you’re interested in attending. thanks!
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PARTYS!

we’re planning a rinkside party at the games on june 24 at corlears and a
party at parkside lounge on july 28.

we CAN have either bands or djs or both for the parkside party. get in touch
with me if you’re interested in that.
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thanks!
[bobw]

THIS SUNDAY

20-MAY-2007
3pm C1 Mathmatics vs. Denim Demons
3pm C2 Cobra Kai vs. Unicorns
4pm C1 G.Anklebiters vs. Mexican Standoff
4pm C2 Tuques vs. C.Hookers
5pm C1 Filthy Gorgeous vs. Mighty Squirrels
5pm C2 Fresh Kills vs. Bad Touch
3pm M Sky Fighters vs. PFR
4pm M Dark Rainbows vs. WTP
5pm M Lbs vs. Rehabs
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LOST AND FOUND

these items were all FOUND at corlears:

2 pairs of sunglasses
1 pair of small black flip flops
1 pair of small red gloves
1 grey thermal top
1 blue nalgene bottle

this item was LOST:

1 white shirt with juventus logo on the left and nike swoosh symbol on the right, along with “juventus” written on the left arm. if anyone has found it, please contact me at bjeramos [at] gmail [dot] com.

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POSTINGS

from christina-cobra kai

I’m looking for a roommate starting this summer (May 15-July 31 move-in is fine). My roommate moved out to get married and I want to renew my lease through next July 31. It’s a 2 bedroom apartment in Weehawken. $800/month plus utilities (about $60 per month per person). Really nice apartment. Safe neighborhood, good landlord. 24-hour transportation to Manhattan by bus and van (15-30 minutes depending on traffic). for more info: cdverigan [at] yahoo [dot] com
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[bw]

BTSH WEEKLY RECAP – WEEK 4
by Eli Kazin

The Games

TIM AND ROB NEED TO START LOOKING FOR NEW JOBS. With the goalie platoon of Tim Gray and Rob Gorden unavailable, Dustin D’Addato stepped in and recorded the shutout, leading the Mighty Squirrels to their first victory of the season, 2-0 against Mexican Standoff. Eric Cole scored the game winning goal in the first half, and Arthur Revechkis added an insurance goal in the second half.

HE’S GONE FROM ASHY TO CLASSY. Paul “Ashy Larry” Vernon scored the game winning goal on a shot that teammates described as a “f—ing sweet.” James Pereira and Suvin Malik added goals for Filthy Gorgeous, who defeated LBS 3-1 for their first victory of the season.

ELLERY CLAIMS HE SCORED TWO GOALS. Libby Lewis scored two goals, including the game winner, and Chris Beauvois registered his first shutout of the season as the Corlears Hookers remained undefeated with a 4-0 victory against the Denim Demons.

THE SAUSAGE PARTY WAS A BAD IDEA. What The Puck doubled up a female-less Pork Fried Rice in their championship game rematch by a 4-2 score. Tom MacDonald scored two goals, including the game winner, and Mike Woodsworth and Darrell Hartman each added one goal for the defending champions, who were paced by solid defense from Amy Farley and Susanna Tenney.

J.P. CHAPUT WOULD RATHER NOT PARTICIPATE IN A SHOOTOUT. J.P. Chaput scored the winning goal with less than one minute remaining in overtime to lead the Rehabs past the Bad Touch, 1-0. Anthony Romeo made 13 saves for the shutout, and was assisted on defense by six blocked shots from Gina Hackett, who dedicated her performance to Unicorns goalie Craig Lacombe.

FEAR DOES NOT EXIST IN THIS DOJO. Alex Nicoloff scored the game winning goal midway through the second half, and Brian Morrison added a goal as Cobra Kai equaled their win total from the 2006 season with a 2-1 victory against the Tuques.

WHERE WERE THEY IN THE FIRST HALF? Chris Eng scored two goals, including the game winner, and Aaron Coles, Aaron Mullan, and Ted Kilcommons also added goals as the Unicorns scored five times in the second half to defeat the Gouging Anklebiters, 5-1. Charles DeFranco scored the lone goal for the Gouging Anklebiters.

IT WAS THE SMELL THAT KEPT THEM GROUNDED. Fresh Kills brought the Sky Fighters back to earth with a 4-2 win, as Dave Gil de Rubio got the win in the first game of his goaltending doubleheader.

MAYBE THEY SHOULDN’T HAVE HECKLED HIM. Despite fifty minute efforts from Georgine Paulin and Sheena Otto, and the fill-in goaltending of Dave Gil de Rubio, who was heckled from the bleachers by his Fresh Kills teammates, the Dark Rainbows defeated the Mathematics, 6-5.

Nickname Nook With Derek Tagliarino
These people will now be known as the following:
Brendan Kearney of Corlears Hookers is now Dutch.
Corey Winters of What The Puck is now Chongo…and here are some words that rhyme with Chongo: mongo, bongo, Belgian Congo, Roberto Luongo.

Power Play/Offsides
Power Play:
– Mexican Standoff’s food tent. In honor of their game with the Mighty Squirrels, Mexican Standoff broke out the fajita bar and a flip-cup tournament. The menu included flour tortillas, chicken, beef, lettuce, tomato, onion, cheese, and a delicious homemade salsa. The big winner in the flip-cup tournament was Jason Rosenstock, who had to perform double duty and fill two spots on his side of the table.
– Craig Lacombe’s Pee-wee Herman impression. For those who remained at the Johnson’s late enough, Craig Lacombe put on a brief, but solid, impersonation of Pee-wee Herman’s Big Shoe Dance from Pee-wee’s Big Adventure. When “Tequila” by The Champs was cued up, Craig made his way onto the bar…and somewhere, Paul Reubens was smiling.

Offsides:
– Nothing strong here, just an assortment of brief items…Patrick Larsen of the Mighty Squirrels was tossed from a shift for giving a reach-around to an opponent, Mauricio Rojas of the Corlears Hookers was tossed from two shifts for physical play, Peter “Geech” Prohaska of the Gouging Anklebiters cutting his trademark curly locks, and the Mathematics had more attendance issues.

Next Week
May 13th, 2007
3pm Corlears 1 Cobra Kai vs. What The Puck
3pm Corlears 2 Pork Fried Rice vs. Mathematics
3pm Moffo Gouging Anklebiters vs. Bad Touch
4pm Corlears 1 Fresh Kills vs. Rehabs
4pm Corlears 2 GAME OF THE WEEK Mexican Standoff vs. LBS
– The last time these two teams were scheduled to play each other, Mexican Standoff decided to go to the beach.
4pm Moffo Unicorns vs. Denim Demons
5pm Corlears 1 Filthy Gorgeous vs. Tuques
5pm Corlears 2 Dark Rainbows vs. Sky Fighters
5pm Moffo Corlears Hookers vs. Mighty Squirrels