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.
Philadelphia '05
First Period (Wachovia Center)
Todd 1 (Amy): 24 hour trip covering 3000 miles, all for this event.
Jimmy 1 (Nancy): Flying from Seattle to New Jersey to spend a weekend with hockey geeks he's never met.
2:00 (minor) Delay of Game: Josh. Five of six assembled and ready, where is Josh and why does he sound stoned when we call him to find out?
McV 1 (unassisted): Slap Shot 25th Anniversary DVD in the mini-van's DVD system. Keeps children and adult fans quietly entranced alike.
McV 2 (unassisted): Scoring Victor's Club tickets for Todd and Jimmy.
Primo Hoagies 1 (McV): Not a sub, not a hero, not a ssammich, it's a hoagie, yo. McV with the setup phone call beforehand.
2:00 (minor) Mobile Consumption: Adrian, Todd, Glenn, Jimmy. Drinking in McVs stealth mini-van party wagon while driving from NJ to Philly.
Delta Dental Ice Girls 1 (Philadelphia Flyers): 'nuff said.
2:00 (minor) Retarded Naming: Philadelphia Flyers. For picking such a horrible name for aforementioned girls.
2:00 (minor) Larceny: Wachovia Center. 60 seconds of bubble hockey for $2.00.
5:00 (major) Sucking: Philadelphia Flyers. Getting shut out when we stressed for a month about buying overpriced tickets.
5:00 (major) Working: Todd. Talking in the mini-van to his office while holding a beer and half drunk.
Jimmy 2 (Ass-tracker): Updating the group of six on up to the minute Stat-tracker stats using Treo while returning from Wachovia Center.
Second Period (Dinner at the McVeigh's)
McV (Kathi): Hosting hockey strangers like professionals, perfecto.
Josh 1 (McV): Air hockey champion, do not screw with this man.
2:00 (bench minor) Absence: PHL242ers not attending. Your chance for reparations will occur next season.
Josh 2 (Philadelpha Flyers, Ottawa Senators): Bringing a tape of the 5 brawls at the end of the Flyers/Sens game with the most PIMs ever.
Glenny 1 (unassisted): Bringing housewarming/spouse-appeasing gift to Kathi. Classy move.
Third Period (Poker, Inebrieation)
Josh 3 (unassisted): Poker superstar for the night.
4:00 (double minor) Chickletting: Glenny. Making a vodka gimlet using chicken stock ice cubes (now dubbed "Chicklet")
Todd 1 (Amy): 24 hour trip covering 3000 miles, all for this event.
Jimmy 1 (Nancy): Flying from Seattle to New Jersey to spend a weekend with hockey geeks he's never met.
2:00 (minor) Delay of Game: Josh. Five of six assembled and ready, where is Josh and why does he sound stoned when we call him to find out?
McV 1 (unassisted): Slap Shot 25th Anniversary DVD in the mini-van's DVD system. Keeps children and adult fans quietly entranced alike.
McV 2 (unassisted): Scoring Victor's Club tickets for Todd and Jimmy.
Primo Hoagies 1 (McV): Not a sub, not a hero, not a ssammich, it's a hoagie, yo. McV with the setup phone call beforehand.
2:00 (minor) Mobile Consumption: Adrian, Todd, Glenn, Jimmy. Drinking in McVs stealth mini-van party wagon while driving from NJ to Philly.
Delta Dental Ice Girls 1 (Philadelphia Flyers): 'nuff said.
2:00 (minor) Retarded Naming: Philadelphia Flyers. For picking such a horrible name for aforementioned girls.
2:00 (minor) Larceny: Wachovia Center. 60 seconds of bubble hockey for $2.00.
5:00 (major) Sucking: Philadelphia Flyers. Getting shut out when we stressed for a month about buying overpriced tickets.
5:00 (major) Working: Todd. Talking in the mini-van to his office while holding a beer and half drunk.
Jimmy 2 (Ass-tracker): Updating the group of six on up to the minute Stat-tracker stats using Treo while returning from Wachovia Center.
Second Period (Dinner at the McVeigh's)
McV (Kathi): Hosting hockey strangers like professionals, perfecto.
Josh 1 (McV): Air hockey champion, do not screw with this man.
2:00 (bench minor) Absence: PHL242ers not attending. Your chance for reparations will occur next season.
Josh 2 (Philadelpha Flyers, Ottawa Senators): Bringing a tape of the 5 brawls at the end of the Flyers/Sens game with the most PIMs ever.
Glenny 1 (unassisted): Bringing housewarming/spouse-appeasing gift to Kathi. Classy move.
Third Period (Poker, Inebrieation)
Josh 3 (unassisted): Poker superstar for the night.
4:00 (double minor) Chickletting: Glenny. Making a vodka gimlet using chicken stock ice cubes (now dubbed "Chicklet")