Golf Tournament 2012

We would like to announce our first golf tournament September 15, 2012 at 1:15pm, held at Twin Streams Golf Course in Delaware Ontario. $55.00 will get you 18 holes with power cart with food, beverages and prizes following the game.

The "scramble" tourney will consist of 10 teams (pairs) being randomly drawn upon arrival. Please show up at least half an hour before the tee off time to get everything set up.

Everyone will leave with a prize! For that we have to thank a few of our friends: Fitz Rays, The Meat Guy, Andy's Auto Detailing, Elite Salon, CBTeez, Source For Sports, Pizza Hut, Western Fair District and Twin Streams Golf. The winning teams will go home with a 1/2 price winter season with Hockey-Life.ca, valued at $150 a player!

We will also set up longest drive and closest to the hole prizes as well for some extra competition on the field.

So far all of the 20 spots available are completely filled. Should more carts become available closer to the date, we will add more teams.

For all players who are on the list so far, please make your payment by August 30, 2012 - payments not made by that date are subject to your spot being available to anyone else who puts down the $55.00.

If you wish to be placed on a waiting list or sponsor a prize, please contact us at info@hockey-life.ca and one of our representatives will get back to you as soon as possible.

We would like to thank everyone for making this possible and are looking for an awesome day!!

See you on the course.

Summer Review

Tournament

Thanks for everyone participating in this summer tournament at the Ice Park where we played under the Hussars colours.  Great start with a 17:0 win, 4:4 tie and a 3:1 win over the team that just killed a tired, unprepared and short benched Hussars team in the semis. Next time boys!

Congrats go out to M. Pucci holding it together and playing for the team while waiting on perhaps the arrival of his girl giving birth any minute!! Mike had a daughter the following week.

Winter season signup

We scored some prime time ice at the Western Fair starting Tuesday October 2, 2012 at 10:15pm! Signups will start shortly, but by all means the bigger response we will get the more ice times we will try to pick up in order to get something going with possible 4-6 teams. Please don't hesitate to contact us through the website, text, or simply in the dressing room to show your interest. This will allow us to plan things out for you guys so we can have a more exciting and new way of playing this winter.

Cost will most likely be around the $300.00 range for 24 games for contract players and $15.00 for spares. Jerseys will be provided each game by the captains.  W'll do a half a season staring in October - December with a Christmas tourney. This would be followed by another half season from January - March.

We are always looking for new skaters and goalies. Please encourage you friends to check us out and sign up! Any suggestions are always welcome and will be addressed accordingly.<br/><br/>
We are also looking into possible ice times Thursday and Saturday nights - again depending on the demand when people want to play.

The Hussars (beginner league) are always looking for skaters for the upcoming season which usually takes place on Friday nights at the Ice Park. The more people we get out there, the more teams we will put into the league - always a good night guaranteed followed by some beverages with the boys after the games!

Golf Tourney

This is a great opportunity for people to get together outside the rink and get some sun while playing in a random draw, paired golf tournament (location to be determined) - best ball format. Along with many prizes that will be available to win in the tourney, the top prize stands out as the winning team will receive a 50% discount on their winter season! Times, signups and details to follow shortly - keep this in mind as it will be open to new players as well.

Winner

During a recent stag and doe for Lukas Makos and Angela Gunn, we would like to thank everyone for coming out and participating in the target shooting game we had up. Congratulations to Pawel Cieslak aka. "Offside guy" winning the draw receiving a FREE upcoming winter season with Hockey-Life.ca valued at $300.00. Also huge thanks go out to Shawn Herman by providing a pair of Eagle Hockey gloves (made in London ON) valued at $150.00 which were won by our very own Radek Adamowski (aka. "The camera guy" and one of the brains behind this wonderful website). Just a few pieces of equipment and we will be able to throw him onto the ice with us!

He has not taken the gloves off since!

Sponsors

We are always looking for sponsors, prizes and promotional ideas that we can give away to our players in order to put smiles on people's faces when they come to the arena. If you have a prize or giveaway that you have in mind, please don't hesitate to put it on the table. We are always looking to help people network while playing our wonderful game each week.

Special thanks go out to our current sponsors: Precision Auto Works, Fitz Rays, AB Transport, The Meat Guy and Dave's Dude Dogs.

Also, special thanks go out to the staff at The Ice Park and The Western Fair for babysitting us while we attend our games! Great job guys - keep it up!

Goalie Series

The goalie series started last Thursday July 12, 2012 with Jamie Slade taking the first game 11:9 over Matt Lunnen. Tuesday July 17, 2012 ready to go as Brad Amberley and Jordie Margison are about to square off in their first game of the series.

Stats Update

Tuesday
Marison  5.85 GAA  8W  4L  1T
Alpaugh 27G  10W  51PTS
DeVries 30A
Kwasek, DiCrescenzo, Makos and Brown looking to get out of the PHILL KESSEL award

Thursday
Lunnen  8.14GAA  3W  4L
Wigle  33G  56PTS
Moniz  33A
Herman  9W

Super Spare
Snook  4.86PPG

All Time Stats
Iron Horse :  Cervoni 69GP
Sniper:  Wigle 133G
Set up man:  Herman 95A
Winning:  Cervoni, Osman  28W
Points:  Wigle 219

Happy Mid Year!

Hello to all... things have been pretty exciting around the Hockey-Life.ca universe lately. Our Summer season is rolling along nicely. After some early season blowouts the games have gotten tighter and tighter providing some great entertainment for all the fans in the stands and pine riders in the game.

A little congratulations are overdue.

As you may know we have many winners that play with us but it takes a lot of ice time and commitment to reach 100 points in one league. At the moment the 100 point club is 6 players strong. Ryan Wigle 176, Chris Alpaugh 144, Rob Devries 134, Cris Cervoni 127 and Adam Klimowicz 120 would like to welcome the newest member of the club: Shawn Herman. Who has been having one heck of a season, he has proven this by breaking the 100 point mark and is currently sitting at 109. Goes to show you that when he's not busy being a beauty, he can really put up some points.

But here at Hockey-Life.ca getting points isn't the only way you can win. There are plenty of draws going on every week thanks to our amazing friends and sponsors.

Last week Adrian Kwasek took home a $79 gift certificate from "The Meat Guy" just in time for barbecue season.

Cris Cervoni was the latest winner of our $25 gift certificate to Fitzrays Restaurant and Lounge ... keep an eye out for this one and play as often as possible, your name gets entered weekly based on how many games you've played. Play twice and you get two ballots for that week.

There is also a weekly prize from "Dave's Dude Dogs, Gourmet Hot Dogs", located by The Beer Store at the intersection of Adelaide St. and Lorne Ave., Dan Tigert took home $10 last week.

Some of you have noticed that Marek Klimowicz and Cris Cervoni have both been wearing helmet cams the last couple of weeks. This is thanks to Radek, our very own mad man tech guy. Stay tuned for some pretty sweet footage.

On a side note fellas... it looks like there is a tournament coming up in July. Hockey-Life.ca and the London Hussars are interested in putting either one or two teams together for this tournament. It all depends on how much interest we get from our members, so if this is something you want to do please contact either Marek or Adam for more details.

Team Orange beat down by the Blues

Game one of the new Series was a bit of a blowout.

The Blueshirts had all the time in the world once they set up in the offensive zone. Orange was back on their heels a little bit, waiting for the inevitable one time set up pass from Joe Snook who registered 2 goals and 2 Assists. He could have had a few more as he set up a few spectacular attempts for Erick "Shrek" Borek.

Borek had a pretty good night of his own putting up 4 assists for the Blueshirts. The London Hussars Captain has started this season off with quite the little run here. He has strung a couple good games together and is quietly sitting tied for second place in points with 10 in 4 games.

Hockey-Life.ca Rookie Nathan Moniz kept up his great form as he was involved in all the goals for Orange. Nathan was in a giving mood with 4 assists and one Geno. Look out for this kid, at this rate he may challenge Bobby D and Shawn "Boom Boom" Herman for the Set up man title this season.

Herman also put up 4 assists leaving him one behind Borek for the lead. Shawn couldn't buy a goal on Thursday night, his vision control was slightly off. His frustration was evident on the bench, Shawn yelled "Two breakaways and I couldn't do S***!!" as he slammed the gate shut behind him.

Cris Cervoni brought his work boots to the arena but wasn't rewarded for his hard work. Cervoni was kept of thee score sheet, it looks like his stellar form from last season has worn off. The nicest play Cris made was when he battled down low behind then net, beat two Blue jerseys for the puck and tossed out a sweet little dish into the slot. Ryan Urquhart pounced on it with a quick snap shot only to be turned away by Matt Lunnen.

On a night where not much went right for Orange, Rob "Bobby D" Devries had a beauty of a goal. Rob took a sand wedge like swing at a loose puck and stuffed it right under the crossbar for his only tally of the night.

The Blueshirts wouldn't be out done on the nice goal count though. They looked like the Harlem globetrotters out there with crisp passing and sweet dangles. Zyad "you don't mess with the Zohan" Osman decided to go for one of his trademark skates. Sweat pants blowing in the wind as he passed through everyone on Team Orange. Zyad went coast to coast and ripped one shelf for his only goal of the game. It was like Deja Vu all over again.

Andrew Graham was seen speeding around the entire ice surface chasing down pucks and getting into open shooting lanes. If Hockey-Life.ca has a fastest skater competition he would be in contention for sure. Andrew had two goals, one of which was a panty dropper for sure. Graham stepped up to the hash marks and pounded one top shelf glove side on a helpless tender.

This game could have been a lot worse. Team Orange left their goalie to deal with a lot of one timers (some connected and some didn't) and odd man opportunities. On the bright side of things, team Blue was a little stacked due to the amount of spares they needed. This week the teams should be a little more even.

Game Two goes Thursday at 10 Pm at The Western fair.

May 8, 2012

The second series of Tuesday night's kicked off this week with Team Green hanging on to edge out Team White.

Team White welcomed back goaltender Brad "Amberly Down" Amberly between the pipes for his first game of the summer series. Both tenders looked to be in game form as the puck was dropped to being what would no doubt be an incredibly close series two.

The game started off with the line of Alpaugh, Osman teaming up with the Ernie "The Cannon" Borek, who quickly showed that the success of that line had little to do with Rob Devries, as all three pitched in to put one past Amberly for a 1-0 lead.

All things seemed to be going Green's way until a terrible defensive play by Shawn Herman lead to a Chris Cervoni wrap around goal to knot things up at 2 a piece. Later in the game Herman also made a defensive mistake that lead to one of Ryan "I don't know what an assist is" Wiggle's 5 goals.

Clearly upset with his two mistakes, Shawn felt he needed to help his team out and did just that. Starting from his own end and taking it the length of the ice to burry one upstairs in close on the White tender to give Green a two goal lead. Seconds after the goal, Ryan Wigle decided to put the team on his back one more time and skate in to the zone and put one past the Jordie to bring the game within one. That is as close as White would get, as Green held off some last minute plays to maintain their one goal lead and take game one in the series.

Notable mentions to the entire Green team who all managed to put a mark on the score sheet, including Spence who was in the giving mood handing out 3 assists. While only 4 players managed to get onto the score sheet for the White team.

Game two is next Tuesday at the Western fair, with puck drop at 9:15

Shawn Herman

Thursday May 3 2012... Welcome to the Gun Show

 The Orangemen came out with a whole new look, new lines and a new attitude. This is exactly what they needed after a Game Two loss that could have been a lot worse if not for some goaltending heroics from Jaime Slade.

Game Three saw the goalies switch ends and it was now Jorge's turn to step it up. He was his usual self making plenty of "couch" saves along the way. The prettiest one was when he slid across the crease and literally toe punted the puck out of play.

The Blueshirts had two new contract players join the Team in Nathan Moniz and Jeff Baxter. Both of which made an immediate impact. Nathan potted a Gino and two apples while Jeff had 2 Goals and one Assist. Welcome to the league boys, you're a great fit.

Former "Phil Kessell" award winner Sean O'Brian, chipped in with a goal and an assist and looks to have shaken off the rust as he's been a solid addition to the blue line. Although the scouting report on him is still that he needs to work on his point shot.

Tommy D continues to improve and added another Goal for the Blueshirts. Tommy on the spot once again found a rebound in the slot and didn't hesitate to "bury that fool", as quoted by Adam Klimowicz.

Team Orange did carry most of the play and were chipping away early and often at the Blueshirts goalie. A big breakout game came from Marc "Vision Control" Corbeil, who wore that left trigger out en route to 3 Goals and 3 Assists. Jeff Debus had a Hatrick while Cris Cervoni matched that with 3 Assists.

The Orangemen went ahead early and it really looked like we would have a rout on our hands, but Blue really fought back and got within a couple to make it respectable. Final score, Orange - 12 Blue - 9.  Orange wins the series 2-1.

Look for new teams this week boys.

An event of Epic Proportions!!

This week we have a pleasant surprise for the Hockey-Life universe. Shawn "Boom Boom" Herman, who is famous for leading a penalty less league in penalties, will strap on the goalie pads and make his goaltending debut for the London Hussars on Friday Night in the Rookie League.

Herman looks to fulfill his boyhood dream of being a utility player in the sport of Hockey at 7:30 on the pristine Brookside Ice Pad.

We encourage all of our Hockey-Life members to come out and enjoy the festivities.