Stanley Keg Champion Stingers and Borrachos win the All Star Game

The Stingers took the Keg last week in a 7-1 romping of the Jets. See the highlites below. Sorry for the long delay getting this up and running Killer has been sick.




In other news, the Borrachos won the all star game, hopefully another poster will give a full recap.

Spot Light On.....Who's this Faye Chick??

Paid your fees? Filled out your registration form? Produced your USA Hockey membership? If you've answered no to any of these, Spot Light On would like to introduce you to the person you'd best not make eye contact with up at the rink. She's the NYTEX inforcer, Faye Hammond.

Hometown?
Grafton, New Hampshire... 40,000,000 Squirrels can't be wrong.
Hockey Experience?
Besides the occasional game of pick-up pond hockey growing up, I tend to stay on the other side of the glass. I am one mean field hockey player if you boys ever want to step up over on the soccer field!
Past/Present Teams?
Team Mom of the Dallas Vipers Roller Hockey Club

Hobbies?
Being a fan of the two greatest sports teams in the world.... Boston Red Sox and THE New England Patriots! Yes, THE New England Patriots!
Pre game ritual?
Setting up to collect payments and USA Hockey numbers. Yea, I'm that girl!
Hockey Hero?
Ryan Miller and Nema Farzin
Hockey nemesis?
Anyone who avoids my "Please see Faye at the Front Desk before taking the ice" signs.
If you could be granted one superpower, what would it be?
The ability to have them all.
Ginger or Mary Anne?
Depends on how many drinks, but I'll play it safe and say The Professor, thank you.
Your message to the NYTEX Hockey community….

I may be the one you ask your friends about..."Who's this Faye chic?" Well the answer is, I am the one that is just doing her job. And yes, you do have to pay to play. It's true!

Bronze League All Star Team

The All Star Team for the Bronze League is listed below. The only players not on here would be the goalie (s). Those will be voted on by the coordinators at the coordinators meeting coming up soon. The Bronze All Star Team is comprised of players that were voted in by their teams and submitted by their coordinators. This game should be very competitive. The game will be on February 27th at 8:40. Vegas bookers are taking bets now.

Sens-Andrew Palmer F
Jets-Will Evans F
Bandits-Joe Friesen F
Bandits-Todd Datallo F
Whalers-Brad Watson F
Stingers-Roland WidemannF
Stingers-Yoon Kang F
Indians-Julie Quinn F
Monkeys-Pedro MontemeyerF
Monkeys-Charles Hill F
Jags-Drew Hart F
Jags-Eric Burnham F
Sens-Eric Anderson D
Jets-Brandon Harrison D
Whalers-Ken Thomas D
Indians-Les Kelly D


Those positions are not 100% solid, there might be someone listed as a forward who actually plays D, and so forth and so on. But the names are those called to duty by their teammates and coordinators.

Spot Light On....Los Borrachos

Spot Light On looks at the other participant in the Bronze league All-Star game, the Silver League Borrachos.



Team History?

The team was conceptualized during a kids practice upstairs at the bar at the Euless Dr. Pepper Star Center when several hockey Dads, with beer muscles flexing, thought it would be a good idea to create a team with the eventual goal of playing with their kids. Started a few years back with I league at Euless then heading out to Silver at NYTEX when the rink re-opened. The team is a mix of beginners and experienced players. There are many Brothers, Dads, Uncles, nephews, on the team but we consider each other one big family, albeit a dysfunctional, drunk Uncle that shows up at holidays kind of family…LOL. The Borrachos name was thought up by our first goalie Jesse Gonzales and is an apt moniker for this bunch. Look it up.

Team Philosophy?

Drink beer, kick each other in the nads stopping just long enough to kick the other team in the nads on ice then go back to kicking each other in the nads, drink beer, repeat…..

Dud to Stud award (team member who has gone from zero to 60 fastest)

Geeze, I’d have to give this one to Mike Lee, the boy is really picking up on this hockey thing and getting the hang of it. He should stick with it.

You’ve got one bottle of fabreeze to give away, which team mate earns it?

Easy one, Jack Stuckeman! The boy cleans his gear once a year whether it needs it or not. The spot next to him in the locker room is ALWAYS the last one taken LOL.

Most vocal on the bench?

Our Spiritual leader Jimmy Stuckeman. He’s our in game coach, strategist. If you hear him yelling your name it’s not a good thing….

Team High Point?

Defiantly winning the Keg over the summer. It was a long time coming and a culmination of hard work and coming together during the playoffs to play as a team.

Team Low Point?

I would say this season with the schedule making it difficult to get everyone on the ice at the same time.

Our team loves to face off against?

We really don’t have any one team that we own or owns us. We’ve beat everyone and loss to everyone. It seems in Silver this season any given team can beat the other regardless the W/L records.

Biggest Rivalry?

Ha!, all the above! We proudly wear the title of ‘most hated team’.

Why you will win the keg this season….

We play some wild ass hockey and sometimes it helps and sometimes it bites us in the ass but when the playoffs roll around we tend to nut up and play positions and puck movement better. Also our goalie Tyler is money come playoff time. When we’re on our game, watch out!

Spot Light On.....Mike Best

Spot Light on visits with one guy who might be referred to in polite company as a "Hockey Harlot" having plied his craft for more teams than not it seems. He wears or has worn several hats around the rink- Hockey Dad/Coach/Coridinator/Skater/Goalie, he's Mike "Beastie" Best.

Home town?
Originally from Bristol, England, but have lived in Canada, Algeria and here in good old Dallas for 11 years

Hockey experience?

Played a little as a kid in Canada, but then played at Nytex when it was Blue Line and also over at Euless and Valley Ranch.

I am still rubbish, but will die trying!

Current/Past teams?

Currently I am playing on the Spider Monkeys as goalie and on the Ice Kings in D league as goalie. I started playing goalie to find out what it was like as my son was a goalie for the Squirt Brahmas Travel Team. It is for me, the best and worst place on the ice! As Bill Ivey says, you are the hero or the zero for sure.

Hobbies?

I have kids and three of us play Hockey! When do I have time and money to have a hobby!

Pre game ritual?

10 beers, packet of smokes and a prayer! Especially when playing for the Ice Kings!

Hockey Hero?

Any goalie in the NHL, that shit's got to hurt!

Hockey Nemesis?

Hvidston! And he is my coordinator! ;o)

If you could have one superpower, what would it be?

Somebody already took Invisibility, so I will go with Reflexive Precognition :- The ability to see moments in time before they happen

Ginger or Mary Anne? Mary Anne of course, don't do redheads!

Your message to the NYTEX Hockey community is?

Keep on playing, it is the most fun you can have with your clothes on! The Nytex family is a great bunch of guys and girls and we all should keep it fun and safe. We also should try to set up a travel team to go and do an I-League tournament sometime! What a drunken bash that would be!

Ranger Division Bronze League

The first seed out of the Ranger division will be determined this wednesday as the Stingers play their 10th game against the Sens. Currently the Bees are sitting on 14 points alongside the Jags who finished the regular season at 14 points. In third we have the Tribe who sits on 13 points. The Indians had a crazy year with 3 OTL's. So the Ranger Division's playoff pairings will all be known this Wednesday evening after the Sens and Bees finish up. Odds on favorite right now is the Bees. They have never had any trouble beating the Sens, as the Sens have never found an answer for goaltender Dana Fenili. If the Bees take the Sens then it will be Stingers vs Monkeys and Tribe vs Jags in the first round of the playoffs.