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BOHA Welcomes 2009-2010 Season
After a four week delay in field reporting, BOHA in partnership with the Field Reporters Association announces a new format in the reporting designed to bolster the readership after months of steady decline. Down to 86 subscribers, BOHA is looking to increase its readership to its pre- refreshment cap days when 235 and 1/2 regularly visited the site. To make the reporting more player friendly, a new feature is the one on one comment from players of each team.
With the new format in place, Field Reporter begins the 2009-2010 season with a brief catch up report on the results of the past four weeks.
BOHA began its season on August 25th with the same six teams played in front of the usual capacity crowd. During the last four weeks of play, some teams won, some teams lost and some teams tied.
In the fifth week and the last game before the Balancing Committee begins to deliberate which players get traded to which teams, some team captains are instructing their players to stay under the radar.
In Game One, Team Black allowed Gold to get ahead for the first ¾ of their game before unleashing league President Andy Leroux and VP Johnny “Apple” MacIntosh, both immune to the trades as league executive, to score a few and collect the two points for Team Black with a 7-4 win. For Team Gold, their defensive game continues to struggle after losing almost all of their defence to free agency. Spiro Krallis, Team Gold’s defensive captain and the first player to do the one on one comment, confided that it is just a matter of time before the team begins to jell especially with the team’s new incentive “The Dagwood’s goal for sandwich” reward system to be unveiled in their next team meeting.
Team Green, loaded with speed and high power shooters are clearly the early favourite to win the championship this year, especially with the 2008-09 Goaltender of the year Ted “Stonewall” Jackson back between the pipes. But in this game, the pipes leaked a bit and allowed Team White to skate away with a 4-3 win. Team White, spotted Green with a three goal lead before Yves Quenneville, celebrating his 20th straight year with the same team and same number, led the comeback. Karl Boivin, Team White rookie, who signed a one way call up contract a week ago, was ecstatic after the win provided the one on one comment “ this is the best win since the last win”.
The finale game between Teams Blue and Red was a classic back and forth game. Team Red took a hard working 3-1 lead, but for the third consecutive game, has trouble holding on to it. Blue’s best forward of the twenty seventh shift, Gord Parkinson, assisted with the tying goal on his 27th shift, when his knuckle ball with top spin shot from a two on one deflected off the goalie’s glove to a waiting Brad Belvedere and an easy tap in for the 3-3 tie. Dan Gaudet, Spiro Krallis's nemesis in the perrenial market share battle as BOHA's sandwich supplier, advises field reporter in the the last one on one comment, that his R & D is working on a "Horton's double double" whammy package also to be introduced in the team next meeting.
With fifth week ended, the early Vegas odds to finish first in the standings are:
Green 3-1
Blue and White 4-2
Black 5-1
Gold 10-1
Red 16,999.9 -1
Odds and ends:
BOHA Invitational Tournament begins on Wednesday Sept. 23 to Sunday 27th. Timekeepers are in short supply for the week-end games. They need your help. This tournament raises a lot of money for charities. To date, we have donated over $350,000 to those in needs. Game times are from 5PM to midnight. Drop in and help out. There are plenty of things you can do
Cheers,
Field Reporter
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