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.
Seattle '10
First Period (Thursday/Friday)
Scoring Summary:
Jenny Flowers (1) (Unassisted): Waitress with tour schedule and regulatin’ with the “I have the talking stick” comment.
Ken (1) (Rose) Making the trip from BC, and looking smooth in the letterman’s jacket.
Shorty’s Bar (1) (Anchor-Tattooed Bartender) Cheap pitchers, pinball, and hot dogs including veggie dogs for the high maint commish.
Wednesday Addams (1) Keeping us lubed with great cocktails at the Zig Zag.
Jimmy (1): (Nancy): Hosting first NW Plooza.
Penalties:
Scott (Obstruction minor) Deliberate intent to disrupt Adrian with text message.
Seattle (Municipal minor) Obnoxious people at hotel bar disturbing Scott’s vibe. Didn’t know that was possible in the PNW.
Glenn (Delay of Game minor) Dinner was good, company was easy on the eyes, and bill was expensive, but was it worth the trip? And who drinks a $70 bottle of wine on a hockey trip?
50-Something Drunk Girl Hotel Guest in elevator (Intoxication double minor). She was jealous that Scott and Glenn were on the top floor and she had to get off at 4. She’d have stayed on the elevator if only she’d been asked. Where is James when you need him?
Glenn (Fishing minor) Sardine baguette at lunch? <tweep>
Scott (East Coast food bias-ing minor) Continued griping about food in non-English languages.
Glenn (Hand-wringing minor) overly worried about parking in open lot in downtown SEA with luggage in the car. Luckily he took the hard drive with the launch codes in his backpack.
Seattle (Municipal Misconduct) Weak-Ass Parking Ticket after midnight
Ken (Trafficking major): Bringing Canadian OTC meds for Glenny across the border.
Glenn (Receiving Trafficked goods minor): Are you sure there wasn’t Viagra in there?
Todd (Schadenfreude-ing double minor): Enjoying beating Adrian during heads up poker a little too much.
Second Period (Saturday)
Scoring Summary:
Jimmy (2): (Danielle): The “biker bar” breakfast at Palmer’s was the hangover elixir we all needed.
Amy (1): (Scott): sporting vintage NHL sweaters to Plooza. Real sweaters.
Danielle (1): (Scott): “He can suck it.” said the unimpressed Pittsburgh native when Adrian told her that McV was from Philly.
Jimmy (3): (Adrian): streaming CBC’s Hockey Day in Canada onto multiple laptops for sports bar vibe during afternoon poker game.
Scott (1): (Todd): Winning first round of poker tourney
Scott (2): (Todd): Winning second round of poker tourney
Adrian (1): (Scott): Comeback to McV’s comment about “does it bother that I’ve beaten you in two poker tourneys” Response: “Naw, it’s just two more times than you’ve made the PHL playoffs”.
Glenn (1): (Adrian): Winning third round of poker tourney
Adrian (2): (Ken): Winning fourth round of poker tourney
Scott (3): (Amy): Trading all five players for the #3 WHL scoring leader Shane Harper in the WHL grabass fantasy challenge. It almost worked.
Jimmy(4): (Everett, Kamloops): Who needs the NHL when you have a kick ass WHL set up like this? And we saw Everett’s 14th win in a row.
Glenn (2): (Todd, Adrian): Going out like a hero and getting his wang chopped off on early all-in poker calls with good cards. .
Ken (2): (Todd): winning the WHL fantasy grabass challenge
Penalties:
Jimmy (Gross Feline Misconduct): Were we supposed to brush our teeth with the cat food on the bathroom counter?
Seattle (Municipal Minor): Scott finds the polite and accommodating PNW’ers to be creepy.
Jimmy (Canine Flatulence major): Cooper the dog busted ass right in front of Glenny, causing him to clear the zone. Maybe this should be a goal instead?
Amy (Poker Flop minor): Last place in combined poker score. Note: this is one of those “good” penalties, like a trip on a breakaway as she said she doesn’t play, but did anyway.
Adrian/Scott/Todd (Matching Minors, Child Labor): Betting $5 on the winner of the 6 y.o. mite league game between periods of the WHL game.
Scott (Limp Wristed Throwing Style minor): Chuck-a-puck throw came nowhere near clearing the safety net.
Glenn (Poker Newbie minor): friendly betting during poker, no killer instinct.
Adrian (WHL Game Fantasy Points Flop): Didn’t get a single G/A/PIM with any of his five players.
Scott (PHL242 points flopping minor): Last place in the Fri/Sat points total.
Glenn/Adrian (Slap Fighting coincidental minors): Throwing tantrums over the iPod selections.
Scott (iPod double minor): Kelly Clarkson on the iPod…then blaming it on the wife.
Ploozers (Delay of Game minor): Arriving too late for the Red Hook Brewery Tour.
Third Period (Sunday)
Scoring Summary:
Glenn (2): (Connie): Psycho travel schedule, 3K miles and no sleep on last night
Scott (4): (Kathi): Psycho travel schedule, 3K miles and redeye before speaking at a conference.
Jimmy (5) (Danielle): So good they had to go back to Palmer’s.
Penalties:
James (Delay of Game): You know what for.
George (Delay of Game): Weaseling out and local lack of attendance
Scoring Summary:
Jenny Flowers (1) (Unassisted): Waitress with tour schedule and regulatin’ with the “I have the talking stick” comment.
Ken (1) (Rose) Making the trip from BC, and looking smooth in the letterman’s jacket.
Shorty’s Bar (1) (Anchor-Tattooed Bartender) Cheap pitchers, pinball, and hot dogs including veggie dogs for the high maint commish.
Wednesday Addams (1) Keeping us lubed with great cocktails at the Zig Zag.
Jimmy (1): (Nancy): Hosting first NW Plooza.
Penalties:
Scott (Obstruction minor) Deliberate intent to disrupt Adrian with text message.
Seattle (Municipal minor) Obnoxious people at hotel bar disturbing Scott’s vibe. Didn’t know that was possible in the PNW.
Glenn (Delay of Game minor) Dinner was good, company was easy on the eyes, and bill was expensive, but was it worth the trip? And who drinks a $70 bottle of wine on a hockey trip?
50-Something Drunk Girl Hotel Guest in elevator (Intoxication double minor). She was jealous that Scott and Glenn were on the top floor and she had to get off at 4. She’d have stayed on the elevator if only she’d been asked. Where is James when you need him?
Glenn (Fishing minor) Sardine baguette at lunch? <tweep>
Scott (East Coast food bias-ing minor) Continued griping about food in non-English languages.
Glenn (Hand-wringing minor) overly worried about parking in open lot in downtown SEA with luggage in the car. Luckily he took the hard drive with the launch codes in his backpack.
Seattle (Municipal Misconduct) Weak-Ass Parking Ticket after midnight
Ken (Trafficking major): Bringing Canadian OTC meds for Glenny across the border.
Glenn (Receiving Trafficked goods minor): Are you sure there wasn’t Viagra in there?
Todd (Schadenfreude-ing double minor): Enjoying beating Adrian during heads up poker a little too much.
Second Period (Saturday)
Scoring Summary:
Jimmy (2): (Danielle): The “biker bar” breakfast at Palmer’s was the hangover elixir we all needed.
Amy (1): (Scott): sporting vintage NHL sweaters to Plooza. Real sweaters.
Danielle (1): (Scott): “He can suck it.” said the unimpressed Pittsburgh native when Adrian told her that McV was from Philly.
Jimmy (3): (Adrian): streaming CBC’s Hockey Day in Canada onto multiple laptops for sports bar vibe during afternoon poker game.
Scott (1): (Todd): Winning first round of poker tourney
Scott (2): (Todd): Winning second round of poker tourney
Adrian (1): (Scott): Comeback to McV’s comment about “does it bother that I’ve beaten you in two poker tourneys” Response: “Naw, it’s just two more times than you’ve made the PHL playoffs”.
Glenn (1): (Adrian): Winning third round of poker tourney
Adrian (2): (Ken): Winning fourth round of poker tourney
Scott (3): (Amy): Trading all five players for the #3 WHL scoring leader Shane Harper in the WHL grabass fantasy challenge. It almost worked.
Jimmy(4): (Everett, Kamloops): Who needs the NHL when you have a kick ass WHL set up like this? And we saw Everett’s 14th win in a row.
Glenn (2): (Todd, Adrian): Going out like a hero and getting his wang chopped off on early all-in poker calls with good cards. .
Ken (2): (Todd): winning the WHL fantasy grabass challenge
Penalties:
Jimmy (Gross Feline Misconduct): Were we supposed to brush our teeth with the cat food on the bathroom counter?
Seattle (Municipal Minor): Scott finds the polite and accommodating PNW’ers to be creepy.
Jimmy (Canine Flatulence major): Cooper the dog busted ass right in front of Glenny, causing him to clear the zone. Maybe this should be a goal instead?
Amy (Poker Flop minor): Last place in combined poker score. Note: this is one of those “good” penalties, like a trip on a breakaway as she said she doesn’t play, but did anyway.
Adrian/Scott/Todd (Matching Minors, Child Labor): Betting $5 on the winner of the 6 y.o. mite league game between periods of the WHL game.
Scott (Limp Wristed Throwing Style minor): Chuck-a-puck throw came nowhere near clearing the safety net.
Glenn (Poker Newbie minor): friendly betting during poker, no killer instinct.
Adrian (WHL Game Fantasy Points Flop): Didn’t get a single G/A/PIM with any of his five players.
Scott (PHL242 points flopping minor): Last place in the Fri/Sat points total.
Glenn/Adrian (Slap Fighting coincidental minors): Throwing tantrums over the iPod selections.
Scott (iPod double minor): Kelly Clarkson on the iPod…then blaming it on the wife.
Ploozers (Delay of Game minor): Arriving too late for the Red Hook Brewery Tour.
Third Period (Sunday)
Scoring Summary:
Glenn (2): (Connie): Psycho travel schedule, 3K miles and no sleep on last night
Scott (4): (Kathi): Psycho travel schedule, 3K miles and redeye before speaking at a conference.
Jimmy (5) (Danielle): So good they had to go back to Palmer’s.
Penalties:
James (Delay of Game): You know what for.
George (Delay of Game): Weaseling out and local lack of attendance