5/28/2006: Black Ice, Blood, Firemen, and the guy in the Red Sweater.

Family night started like any other with the stands packed with the Pig faithful cheering on the team against the Black Ice. Pigs drew first blood with Herrick's masterful goal at 13:41. About 3 minutes later the whistle blows as Tall Gary appears slumped over in the far corner...well a pictures worth a thousand words (love the smile).



By the time Oakland fire arrived on the bloody scene the Pigs fireman squad of Lemon, Herrick, and Doyle had assessed the scene, controlled the crowd, and most importantly stablized the patient. For me this was just enough informantion to answer the age old question: "how many fireman should you roster on your ice hockey team"...the answer is 3 (one to supervise, one to prop the leg, and one to control the flow of blood). Good work boys.

While they were scraping TG off the ice, the Kid notices a new member of the Black Ice. The new guy appears to be regular referee in our league sporting a red jersey. Kids all "what the $#@$". The ref says: don't worry he's not that good". Second period Pigs take a 2-0 lead off a Soda-Pop gimme goal. In third period action Pigs dominate yet give up 3 goals with the final goal coming fromt the guy in the red sweater with 4 minutes to play. Pigs lose 3-2.

Good time had by all at Family night. The ride home was nothing but "why was Tall Gary's blood on the ice?", "how come he didn't cry?", etc. Thanks TG! Good times...

Congrats to Minnesota Scott who got married last Wednesday.

May 23, 2006 (Oakland, CA)

Pigs opened up the 2006 season with a 6-2 win over the Black Dogs. Known as the best position player on the pigs since Koz, Kid got things rolling with a timely position driven turnover and breakout pass to Pittsberg who did all the hard work scoring the 1st goal of the summer session. The rest of the game was academic with guys like Gracie, SodaPop, Dino, Longshore, Mike and Mac posting the balance. More impressive than Goalie Jeff's 1st assist in 6 seasons was Longshore's roof job one timer. "That's exactly how I got my wife pregnant" exlaimed a pumped Longshore after the goal marking his first point in almost 9 months.

Family Night Travel Advisory for Sunday May, 28: A death gesture was given to Captain McClure on 5/23 by a local Oakland native in the Ice Center parking lot al la Harry Conick Jr's character in the 1995 classic "Copycat." Mac crapped his pants but cleaned up nicely after the game.

Pigs Start Season with a bye!!!!

With the warm weather upon us the Puck Pigs anxiously awaited the start of a new summer season. Unfortunately they would be forced to watch hockey instead of play it with the unfortunate double whammy schedule hang up. See email below for the low down.

The delay did not go unpunished. Thanks to Dino's Mom who was furious upon learning that a beer league hockey game was canceled due to something as trivial as Mother's Day. The following footage was caught on tape as Dino's Mom and sister confronted Emery's Mom at the OIC rink.

Let's just say it runs in the family. Way to go Mama Dino!



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From: Steve [mailto:steve@3rdbase.com]
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 10:18 PM
To: Emery Lykins
Subject: RE: Schedule

Puck Pigs had the bye in wk 1 and a sunday game in wk 2, which was bumped (5/14 is an off day for Mothers Day) . Bad luck there

-Steve Paltiel

steve@3rdbase.com

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From: Emery Lykins [mailto:emeryl@oaklandice.com]
Sent: Sun 5/7/2006 2:04 PM
To: Steve
Cc: 'Kent McClure'
Subject: Schedule

Steve,

I’m just wondering why the Puck Pigs in Silver A do not have a game until the 23^rd? Most teams have 2 or 3 games in by that time…..

emery