Our regular season has come to an end last week or as some of you state our pre season haha.

The early match featured the high flying Polocks vs Canada (the sand baggers) playing without their top 2 forwards.  1-1 after the 1st period.  3-1 for Poland making it a 4-2 hockey game.  All Poland in the final frame as they score 3 times for a 7-2 victory.  Poland goes 2-2 on the PP and Canada 0-1.  Canada gets goals from Ron Chantaj and the ageless Gary Julius.  Poland gets 2 goals from Frank Nweisser and singles from Barbosa, Coffin, Byer, McCormick and Flumerfelt.  Players of the Game went to Canada’s Mike Kidd.

And the crazy Polock goes to Steve Sparrow returning after a long injury.

nice…looks like he sells sausages by the skydome.

Late game between Sweden and the USA.  All Donald Trump in the 1st 3-0 USA.  More of the same in the 2nd as USA out score the nordic squad 3-1 for a 6-1 lead after 2.  Americans continued their dominance in the 3rd out scoring the Swedes 2-1 for a final victory of 8-2.  Both squads went 0-0 on the PP.  Swedes get goals from Cormier and Thomas.  USA gets 2 goals from McKean and singles from Mihalic, Karabinis, Maguire, Rundle, Russell (with a big celebration woohoo) and Carlisle.  Players of the Game goes to USA Art Senkowski.

And to Sweden they initially give it to fill in goalie Frank Rispoli who told the media that he hasn’t faced that many shots all year with Finland.

But then changed it in the dressing room to Billy Lott when we discovered he high sticked his own team mate during the game.

Awww Mr. Brian Burke, the man with the nicest feet in the league.

Namaste Mr. Burke, namaste.

So we are done our 30th regular season.  A few congrats are in order.

USA Dan Barrett wins the Art Ross for leading scorer this season with 38 points.  A 5 assist night in his last game passed Finlands Diluzio for the trophy.

Finlands Frank Rispoli wins the Vezina with a league best 3.00 goals against average 4th best in history.

And Polands Robin Flumerfelt wins the Rocket Richard trophy for most goals scored with 20.  He was also 1st in PP goals with 3 and 2nd best in game winning goals with 3.  Robin also took home the non celebrated John Sparrow belt for most penalty minutes with a whopping 16 to lead the league.  mmmmm lawyers????

Only a mug a mother can love.

And easily the scariest individual pic I took the last few weeks has to go to this guy.

wtf????

Finland finishes on top as our #1 playoff seed with a 34 point season and with their 16 wins they now break a record held since 2002-03 season that the Green team has held in both those categories.

Also 4 teams all broke the team record of penalty minutes in a single season which was 46.  Finland, Sweden, Canada and the USA were all less than that record.  Only Poland did not match it.  Our lowest total penalty minutes ever in history, congrats lads.

Poland finishes 2nd and may be heading for a dual with Finland in the Championship game if Las Vegas odds makers are correct.  Sweden finishes 3rd, USA 4th and our last place team Canada finishes 5th.  Canada had 1 more point than last years 5th seed Montreal who went on to play in the Gold medal game last year.  Canada is looking to repeat that this season.

Our playoffs begin this week.  Friday, March 17 we will get a repeat of last weeks games.  9:15 Canada will open their playoffs against Poland and at 10:30 Sweden will do battle with the USA.  Top seed Finland earns the march break off night.

See you all on the ice boys and good luck to all 5 teams.