Cinco "Celebration" de Mayo !

Cost of Tourney = $40

Pitcher of Beer = $8

Roll of Tape = $3

Yelling "Leroy Jenkins" = PRICELESS

I was worried and actually a bit disappointed because I thought with only 24 players and 4 goalies, this event would not have the same energy or enthusiasm of years past. Boy, was I wrong.

The tournament was one of the most fun events yet. With Team 4 taking this years Championship, the crew of the Jobgen Bros, the 2 Daves (Green & Gannon), Scott Kelley & Gary Halloway had the right stuff to win it all!

This may have been overshadowed by the other contest happening on the opposite side with the last place teams competing for the best celebration after a goal. Some of the memorable ones included:

Leaving the arena

Autograph the puck

Being intimate with the goal post

Snow Angel

Ride the horse

The top ones as voted by both teams had some great ones as well.

Leap Frog

Sword Fight

Resuscitate the stick

Although playing 5 games in 4 hours while drinking beer & eating pizza in between (and during games) may seem crazy, it was truly an event to end events!

Thanks to all the players that participated. Thanks to Sergey & Haynes for providing some excellent officiating. Thanks to my wife Natalia for organizing the upstairs so I could play (and Dawn Gorelik for driving after the pizza). Thanks to everyone who helped support the kid's college fund by buying sticks, tape, laces & candy! Final thanks to Scott Blomquist for decorating his helmet with the most inappropriate items on the face of the planet! Oh yeah, the Blackhawks beating the Canucks was a fine end to a great evening.

See everyone at the next event!