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No BOHA Trades as Trading Deadline Expires
After seven weeks and 38 visual telepathy meetings, the Balancing Committee has decided to keep the teams as they are. In a pre-game press conference, the Head member of the committee who OK’s every deal, Ted Mulhern, informed the crowded press room that the league has too many players on “No trade” clause in their contracts. All the teams will have to rely on their call ups to bolster their lineups. With the announcement over, much to the chagrin to some players who hope quietly to be traded, week seven got underway.
Team White on a six game unbeaten streak, lost their first game of the season 4-2 to Blue, who is now 17 games away from clinching first place. Without their top gun Ralph Difiore, Team Blue still dominated the game with Scott Meehan, fresh from signing a new no trade contract, stepping up to anchor and quarterbacked the blue line team of Dollard Leblanc, Robert “C cut” Ouellette and Pierre Tardif . This new Defensive corps is ready to challenge Team White, voted by the Field Reporters Association to have the league’s top D of Yves Quenneville, Claude Dubeau, Howard Gosselin and new comer Karl Boivin. Chris Wright, last year’s BOHA 2nd All Star Team D, is in the farm waiting for a chance to crack the lineup. With the loss, he might just get his chance. Blue’s new players Rep, Tom Simpson, in the one on one interview, expressed his concern that Team Blue might just be peaking a tad early and warned his players to continue with their off ice yoga conditioning program.
It was a no contest in the feature “Game of the evening” between Team Red and Team Black. Team Red had difficulties figuring out how to play Team Black “Shinny” strategy. Black came out early and peppered Team Red and a 2-0 early lead, Red came back with two quick goals to tie Black only to trail again on a slow scooter shot along the ice by Andy Leroux with 2 seconds left in the first half. It was all downhill in the second half as Black’s coach Roger Richard employed his weave in and shoots strategy resulting in rebounds galore, breakaways, 3 on ones and a bonus 5 more goals and a deserving 8-4 win. In the post game closed room meeting, Team Red Captain Paul “Bambi” Prevost asked for a solution to fix the leaky pipes and also felt that some players were figure skating and banned himself, Dan Goodale, Mike Rourke, Dave “the Dude” Connell, Doc Heseltine and Paul “Money Grabber” Painter from watching “The Battle of the Blades”.
Teams Green and Gold played the game of the night. With some call ups, Green dominated for the most part but needed all six of their top guns in the last minute with the goalie out to tie Gold 5-5. After the game, BOHA Players Development VP, Ted “Stonewall” Jackson, a distant relative of the famous Civil war Rebel, confessed to Field Reporter that he had the upper hand in the players call up selection business as they scored most of the goals for the Green. Meanwhile, Team Green first draft Ken Rowe, who earlier had to barter for a pair of pants from the Dude, felt Dude’s pants inhibited his skating style as the inseam between the legs area was a bit tight causing the Dude to express some concerns wondering if the tight inseam will affect his tool doing his new marital duties.
With week 8 just six days away, Vegas competition analysts have separated BOHA teams into two tiers. The top tier has Blue, Green and White and the bottom tier Gold, Black and Red. The odds of any of the bottom tier teams moving up to the top tier is set at 12,000 to 1 with Team Red odds set at Infinity to 1. Will Team Red rise up to the challenge? Tune in.
Cheers,
Field Reporter
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