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folks, i just came from corlears and it’s the scene of a currier & ives/ansel adams painting – a big white blanket of wet, heavy snow. hector and alex volunteered to shovel it (and they are insane enough to do it), but the problem is there will be some slush and water left over that won’t go away in a day, and is certain to freeze, making for a bad situation on sunday. so we’ll put it off for a week and start on march 25. i’m sure that your irish hangover will be thankful!

first official scrimmage of 2007:
sunday 18 march 2007
2pm-5pm
corlears hook park (jackson/cherry/FDR)

FREE AGENTS (players looking for teams): wear RED!
all others, bring both a DARK/black and LIGHT/white shirt!
captains, please wear a red armband to identify you to free agents.

ALL BTSH RULES APPLY!

hello BTSH members!
there are big changes for the coming season:
– s.b. is in retirement and bobw will be running the show, with the help of some key BTSH leaders.
– schuie will be the “director of officiators,” aka the person in charge of the refs and rules.
– the old yahoo groups list is disused – make sure that you join the new group, found at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/btsh.
– we’re working closely with the parks dept. to improve our facilities and provide a better experience for our players.

as the 2007 BTSH season is being planned out we’re proposing a number of changes. the captains will meet on feb. 3, 2007 to consider the ideas and decide on how the new season will be formatted.

some of the key proposals include:
– creating two divisions, based on last year’s season records, but including inter-divisional play.
– scheduling 16 regular season games and 4 play-off/finals games.
– allowing teams to in-bound directly on goal from the half court line when possession is granted due to a foul committed by one team.
– creating a roster cap of 26 (including the goalie).
– allowing 2 more teams (18 total) to form.

there are other ideas to consider as well, which will be posted in full on the btsh.org “battledome” discussion area. we encourage everybody to review the proposals and to let your captain know if you support or oppose any of the proposals. you can also inform your captain of your opinion on any topics that are of concern to you regarding BTSH.

a few key dates to note (to be confirmed at the captains meeting:
– MARCH 18 – SCRIMMAGE AT CORLEARS
– MARCH 25 – SCRIMMAGE AT CORLEARS
– APRIL 01 – SCRIMMAGE AT CORLEARS
– APRIL 13 – DEADLINE FOR PLAYER REGISTRATION
– APRIL 14 – SEASON OPENING PARTY – PARKSIDE
– APRIL 15 – FIRST DAY OF GAMES

looking forward to seeing everybody real soon!
[bobw]

*scores/typos of the week theme: my seven storied years of btsh prf thinks rollerblades are gayer than filthy, 3-2 biters had to eject sander with no help from bad touch, 3-0 what the puck hung up hockey relationships after math, 3-1 unis used to ref every game for squirrels, 5-0 fresh kills is hated by all of long island thanks to cobra kai, 6-3 wtp has written thousands of emails read by no one but aaron unis and rehabs, 2-0 tuques is the only one who remembers jeff west, michael ragolia, or mso, 3-2 lbs has had enough of rainbows, 5-4 rehabs founded demons, 4-0 pfr sucked at playing lbs, 6-1
hey!  leave me alone! http://www.traineaux.com/hockey/btsh.stats#gameresults
*week 22 faq -i saw some plaque in the johnsons, are you really dead? see below.
*next week WEEK 23 – 10/29/06 – FINALS
     CORLEARS   
12:00pm: Dark Rainbows vs. Filthy Gorgeous
1:00pm: Gouging Anklebiters vs. Tuques
1:00pm: Fresh Kills vs. Unicorns
2:00pm: Mathematics vs. Denim Demons
2:00pm: Rehabs vs. LBS 3:00pm: Pork Fried Rice vs. What the Puck
     MOFFO      
1:00pm: Bad Touch vs. Mexican Standoff 2:00pm: Cobra Kai vs. Mighty Squirrels
here’s the bracket: http://www.btsh.org/bruise/schedule/2006-play-off-brackets/
*lost and found from joe math: Hi, this is Joe from Math. I left my stick at the bar, was wondering if anyone happened to pick it up. It’s a bit on the short side, a Bauer stick with some blue piping. The blade has white tape on it, and one little piece of blue. jsfgraham at yahoo dot com
*next week’s party! bob says: party, sixes and eights, featuring a crazy raffle, including gear from west side stick and skate and a PBR bicycle!!!
update later this week (from beyond)!
*nobody sent me kudoses or gasfaces, so instead, my farewell from my hockey deathbed. as many of you know, i have been hockey dying for some time now.  i originally contracted hockey disease after being overloaded with too many humorless, inane email reactions to these updates, and it worsened with each pfr win and monday night spent struggling to think of score themes.  as i got sicker and sicker, bob took over more and more of my duties.  i bequeeth onto him the role of leadership.  i haven’t understood the rules in 5 years, anyway, plus he’s really calm, and he has that cart.  peaches will now be official fun captain.  i don’t know how that’s different from his current role.  maybe we’ll give him a nice sash.
many of you don’t know me, or only know me as the person who writes these emails (i’m a lady, by the way), or as the one person in the league who doesn’t drink, or maybe confuse me with one of the league’s other more prominent brunette jews, julie on fresh kills.  and while i do love every nameless, drunk, possibly-slightly-antisemetic member of this league, my love is no match for this hockey illness, which, i’m sorry to say, has taken my hockey life.  i met my end at a hockspice, surrounded by loved ones.
i may return as a ghost or something, rattle my chains and teach you the true spirit of christmas, i don’t know, i haven’t really figured that part out yet.  i’m pretty sure i’ll have to haunt you later this week with an email update, and then, like me, this list will die (after finals) and a new one will rise from the ashes.  hey, maybe i’ll rise someday like a hockey jesus!  that’d be sweet.  but for now, i remain in purgatory, or at least i think it’s purgatory, because while it’s very hot, none of my old hebrew teachers are here and reagan isn’t running the show.
there are many people i would like to thank for being there for me in hockey life, like bob and amy and party peaches and not-me julie, but since there are so many to recognize, and i am so deep into hockey death, just know that i appreciate everyone for turning something i thought of when i was 21 into a legitimate downtown institution.  as i hockey die, i hockey live on.  if not on this earthly plane, or even in your hearts, on the wall of the johnsons and on the pavement of corlears hook park.
enjoy the party next week, and i pity the sucker in charge of drink tickets.  you guys can be such assholes!  to which i say, god bless you, every single one.
peace in the middle east, sb