Puckapalooza
Puckapalooza, or sometimes simply plooza, is the pinnacle of puck hoggery. This mostly annual event gathering puck hogs from around the US and Canada for a few days of hockey, drinking, betting, hockey, poker, and maybe some more hockey. Attendance at a plooza will instantly make you a made man in the PHL242. If this is important to you the you should probably reexamine your priorities. It’s still a damn good time. The plooza box score sheet is a continuance of a pre-PHL242 tradition of documenting success, failures, and ignominy from the degenerate event. Read the summaries below and you'll see what we get up to.
Las Vegas '07
First Period (Thursday/Friday) 4:00 (double minor) Truancy: Ralph. Missing yet another PHL draft weekend.
2:00 (minor) Truancy: Auston. Missing yet another PHL draft weekend.
2:00 (minor) Blasphemy: Glenny. Left The Bucket home, in the basement.
Kenny 1 (Mrs. Kenny) Ending 2yr Puck Hog drought and making the trip. Huzzah!
Kenny 2 (Cane) Playing hurt, flying all the way after knee surgery (get back on the ice)
Jimmy 1 (unassisted) Bringing WiFi router, establishing WiFi network.
Amy 1 (Luxor) Upgrade to 1,500 sq. foot, 3br suite.
Dee the bartender 1 (Adrian, Scott) Engaging Puck Hogs in Simpsons trivia.
2:00 (minor) Suggestive Misconduct: Glenn Chambers. Saying that Scott wanted to lick the lemon juice soaked fingers of Dee the bartender.
2:00 (minor) Dyspepsia: McV. Resistance to nouveau cuisine, such as cucumber infused water and Vietnamese and Indian dinner options.
4:00 (double minor) Delay of Game: McV. Oversleeping and almost missing dinner.
Todd 1 (Amy, American Express) Picking up dinner for 7 at Il Fornaio.
Glenn 1 (unassisted) First time at a roulette table and walked away $45 up.
2:00 (minor) Cooling: Glenny. Hitting, busting and costing Adrian $40 on a blackjack hand.
2:00 (minor) Clark Griswalding: Adrian. Going down about 3 bills in 12 hours.
2:00 (minor) Soliciting Misconduct: Las Vegas. Several prositutes approached Puck Hogs over course of weekend with offers to "party"... and Amy wanted to know why Todd didn't invite some of them up!
Second Period (Saturday)
2:00 (minor) Institutional Misconduct: Excalibur Hotel. Crummy music by the pool and a jackhammer doing work beside the pool.
5:00 (major) Spamming: Luxor Hotel. Carrot Top billbords EVERYWHERE!
Adrian 1 (Hanson Brothers) Playing the Hanson brothers numbers on roulette and hitting 18.
Scott 1 (Todd) Discoursing on the nuances of card hames and craps for the benefit of all.
Jimmy 2 (Todd): Spoofing the IP address on the router to hack the Luxor IP limitation.
5:00 (major) Institutional Misconduct: Luxor Hotel. Threatening $6 delivery charge for church key. Todd bought blingy Vegas one from a store in the lobby instead and it shall be a part of The Bucket evermore.
Mothertruckers 1 (unassisted) Good naturedly taking the heat from the boys and girl.
Todd 2 (unassisted) Making material bling contribution to The Bucket.
Dz Kenn/Haken 1 (unassisted) Raising the bar on the message board
Dirty Pete 1 (unassisted) Also raising the message board bar and hilarious Michigan 1-AA joke.
Dz James/Haken 2 (unassisted) Scoring #1 draft pick in rookie year.
2:00 (minor) Self loathing: Scotia. Commenting, "I hate myself" after at least two draft picks.
2:00 (minor) Motherhood: Amy. Drafting Dan Clouiter for her son.
2:00 (minor) Sleeping at the wheel: Amy. Drafting Dan Giordano (Russian league signee)
7:00 (minor + Instigator) Cuckolding: Todd. Trading Sakic to Glenn in front of Adrian.
2:00 (minor) Cuckholding: Glenn. Accepting Todd's trade offer
2:00 (minor) Narcolepsy: Adrian. Falling asleep on floor in view of everyone following draft and football game.
2:00 (minor) Institutional Minor: Rainforest Cafe. Schlocky, Sysco-quality service, including Scotty's headache inducing electric discoball flashing lemonaide souvenier cup.
Third Period (Sunday)
Adrian 2 (Todd, guy in blue shirt) Amazing $1K comeback fueled by Todd's 15 minute craps lesson.
Kenny 3 (guy in blue shirt) $400USD profit (thats almost 500CAD) on same table.
Las Vegas 1 (unassisted) Just like the Budweiser commercial... hundreds in TSA line upstairs cheering the troops visiting Vegas on leave from Iraq/Afghanistan as they walked through baggage claim below.
2:00 (minor) Not that there is anything wrong with it: Adrian. Having romantic dinner with Kenny Sunday night in booth part of room with all couples.
2:00 (minor) Playing Asian sugar daddy: Ken. Having romantic dinner with Adrian Sunday night in booth part of room with all couples.
2:00 (minor) Truancy: Auston. Missing yet another PHL draft weekend.
2:00 (minor) Blasphemy: Glenny. Left The Bucket home, in the basement.
Kenny 1 (Mrs. Kenny) Ending 2yr Puck Hog drought and making the trip. Huzzah!
Kenny 2 (Cane) Playing hurt, flying all the way after knee surgery (get back on the ice)
Jimmy 1 (unassisted) Bringing WiFi router, establishing WiFi network.
Amy 1 (Luxor) Upgrade to 1,500 sq. foot, 3br suite.
Dee the bartender 1 (Adrian, Scott) Engaging Puck Hogs in Simpsons trivia.
2:00 (minor) Suggestive Misconduct: Glenn Chambers. Saying that Scott wanted to lick the lemon juice soaked fingers of Dee the bartender.
2:00 (minor) Dyspepsia: McV. Resistance to nouveau cuisine, such as cucumber infused water and Vietnamese and Indian dinner options.
4:00 (double minor) Delay of Game: McV. Oversleeping and almost missing dinner.
Todd 1 (Amy, American Express) Picking up dinner for 7 at Il Fornaio.
Glenn 1 (unassisted) First time at a roulette table and walked away $45 up.
2:00 (minor) Cooling: Glenny. Hitting, busting and costing Adrian $40 on a blackjack hand.
2:00 (minor) Clark Griswalding: Adrian. Going down about 3 bills in 12 hours.
2:00 (minor) Soliciting Misconduct: Las Vegas. Several prositutes approached Puck Hogs over course of weekend with offers to "party"... and Amy wanted to know why Todd didn't invite some of them up!
Second Period (Saturday)
2:00 (minor) Institutional Misconduct: Excalibur Hotel. Crummy music by the pool and a jackhammer doing work beside the pool.
5:00 (major) Spamming: Luxor Hotel. Carrot Top billbords EVERYWHERE!
Adrian 1 (Hanson Brothers) Playing the Hanson brothers numbers on roulette and hitting 18.
Scott 1 (Todd) Discoursing on the nuances of card hames and craps for the benefit of all.
Jimmy 2 (Todd): Spoofing the IP address on the router to hack the Luxor IP limitation.
5:00 (major) Institutional Misconduct: Luxor Hotel. Threatening $6 delivery charge for church key. Todd bought blingy Vegas one from a store in the lobby instead and it shall be a part of The Bucket evermore.
Mothertruckers 1 (unassisted) Good naturedly taking the heat from the boys and girl.
Todd 2 (unassisted) Making material bling contribution to The Bucket.
Dz Kenn/Haken 1 (unassisted) Raising the bar on the message board
Dirty Pete 1 (unassisted) Also raising the message board bar and hilarious Michigan 1-AA joke.
Dz James/Haken 2 (unassisted) Scoring #1 draft pick in rookie year.
2:00 (minor) Self loathing: Scotia. Commenting, "I hate myself" after at least two draft picks.
2:00 (minor) Motherhood: Amy. Drafting Dan Clouiter for her son.
2:00 (minor) Sleeping at the wheel: Amy. Drafting Dan Giordano (Russian league signee)
7:00 (minor + Instigator) Cuckolding: Todd. Trading Sakic to Glenn in front of Adrian.
2:00 (minor) Cuckholding: Glenn. Accepting Todd's trade offer
2:00 (minor) Narcolepsy: Adrian. Falling asleep on floor in view of everyone following draft and football game.
2:00 (minor) Institutional Minor: Rainforest Cafe. Schlocky, Sysco-quality service, including Scotty's headache inducing electric discoball flashing lemonaide souvenier cup.
Third Period (Sunday)
Adrian 2 (Todd, guy in blue shirt) Amazing $1K comeback fueled by Todd's 15 minute craps lesson.
Kenny 3 (guy in blue shirt) $400USD profit (thats almost 500CAD) on same table.
Las Vegas 1 (unassisted) Just like the Budweiser commercial... hundreds in TSA line upstairs cheering the troops visiting Vegas on leave from Iraq/Afghanistan as they walked through baggage claim below.
2:00 (minor) Not that there is anything wrong with it: Adrian. Having romantic dinner with Kenny Sunday night in booth part of room with all couples.
2:00 (minor) Playing Asian sugar daddy: Ken. Having romantic dinner with Adrian Sunday night in booth part of room with all couples.