Piccolo Grande 6 / Remax Spitfires 0

Wednesday Sept.8th, 2004 10:30
Ottawa “U”

Hey there sports fans and welcome to another season of hockey Piccolo Grande style. Now the boys in NHL may be going on strike but, much to the delight of hockey enthusiasts everywhere the men of the Travellers Hockey league are not. The closest we’ll ever get to having to a celery cap is lettuce in our helmets. Ahh but I digest onto the game at hand.

The Piccolo line up for the 2004 -2005 season has changed a bit. No longer with us are 2 long standing and stalwart members both of whom will be sorely missed. Mr Greg “Popstar” Popoff has taken his show to Switzerland where he will be yodelling away his time in his new career as the Regional Alpine Swiss Miss inspector. The second member is none other than the man with the soft hands and wicked shot Mr. Michel “Pappy” Papillion. Returning however from a year long stint as a spare player for Piccolo is the former Captain and scoring firebrand Mr. Eric “The Rage “ Romainca. We’d also like to take this opportunity to welcome to the team newcomers Dan “Rudimentary” Ruddy and young Matt” The Ratt” Pearce son of our current Captain Terry “Ragger” Pearce. Again I digest or perhaps that was just a burp… in any event on with the game.

Not much to report really. The first period started out fairly even but slowly but surly (I am not a fairy and don’t call me Shirley) the boys from the ice cream shop took over. By the end of the first period they had taken a 3 to nothing lead. The second period was more of the same save for a couple of spurts of energy that saw the Remax Spitfires buzz the Piccolo end forcing their goaltender Andy “5hole” Sommerfeld to actually contribute to the impending shutout. Piccolo added 3 more goals to salt this one away. Of note of course was Eric Romanica with his hat trick and the contribution of new Piccolo spare Chris “The vacuum” Verdon. Not only did he knock in 2 goals, skate a couple of Rideau canals but was on every puck like a Hoover on a hairball. The Remax goalie did his best to keep the score respectable with some fine saves.