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.
Toronto '06
First Period (Friday)
Buffalo Baggage Claim 1 (Vancouver Canucks): Deplane, go to baggage claim and there is a guy wearing an old school (V-notch) Tiger Williams jersey.
Porter 1 (Corio): Rental car and driving.
2:00 (minor) Turtling: Auston. Missing FH draft
2:00 (minor) Turtling: Ralph. Missing FH draft
4:00 (double minor) Turtling: McV. AWOL from FH league and draft.
2:00 (minor) Delay of Game: Glenny. Getting Jimmy lost on the way to breakfast in Buffalo.
Panos Diner, Buffalo 1 (Chambers): 40 bucks feeds five, including large OJs. Good cheap eats.
Corio 1 (Chambers): Keeps straight face while telling Canadian border guard we're there for the FHL Draft.
2:00 (minor) Reticence: Jimmy. Not asking Canadian border guard if he thinks Cheechoo will keep it up.
Tim Hortons 1 (unassisted): Coffee, doughnuts and a new travel mug for Glenn.
2:00 (minor) Navigational Misconduct: Glenny. Trying to avoid visit to Niagra Falls.
2:00 (minor) Provincial Minor: Toronto. One way streets messing up tourist navigation.
2:00 (minor) Ethnic Misconduct: Glenny. Describing how room at La Grange reeks of curry as elevator door opens and an Indian woman is standing there.
Fat Belgian Restaurant 1 (Cute waitress): Jimmy and Adrian liked her. Friday dinner complete with several Belgian beers.
Corio 2 (unassisted): Setting up WiFi at La Grange for testing when he didn't have to.
Hoddick, T. 1 (Technicolor): Gutting out several grueling LA-Europe biz trips in order to take this one and stay at the Sheraton gratis.
Corio 3 (Nancy): Making commitment from west coast travel two consecutive years.
2:00 (minor) Brewery Misconduct: Keith's Brewery. Adrian thinks the Vitamin K isn't hoppy enough.
2:00 (minor) Instigator, Complaining about snoring: Adrian.
2:00 (minor) Excessive Snoring: Glenny.
2:00 (minor) 2nd Man In, Excessive Snoring: Jimmy.
20:00 (Game Misconduct, Gross Misconduct) Simply for existing: The Grange Hostellerie, Toronto. Being disgusting and depriving us of $260 Cdn for two nights of sleep.
Second Period (Saturday)
2:00 (minor) Turtling: Quan. We came to your country man!
2:00 (minor) Turtling: Bisson. Holding the bucket but not showing up to the draft.
Quan 1 (unassisted): Supporting the beer habit via remote.
Tim Hortons 2 (unassisted): More coffee, doughnuts (for some) and a panhandling doorman.
Hoddick, T 2 (Hoddick, A): Setting up WiFi at Sheraton.
Pasquale, Manon 1 (Marco): 13 month old Sebastien = Cute Kid.
Bisson 1 (unassisted): Informs PHL that beer is IN The Bucket.
Hoddick, T 3 (Chambers): Random drawing second 1st pick in two years.
5:00 (Major) Unsportsman like conduct: Adrian. Bragging about draft prep then complaining about picking 17th.
Hoddick, A 1 (unassisted): Amy rescues WiFi connection during temporary disconnect, affecting only 2 picks.
Hoddick, A 2 (unassisted): Annoying TPSH and Canucksuck with timely draft picks.
Pasquale, Marco 1 (unassisted): Scores good pizza for draft party.
2:00 (minor) Canadian English: Pizza place. Bacon on Hawaiian Pizza.
Porter, Jeff 1 (unassisted): Rolls into the draft party with two cases of beer.
Corio 4 (Hoddick, T): Beer cab run after Gretzky's
Third Period (Sunday)
Buffalo Baggage Claim 1 (Vancouver Canucks): Deplane, go to baggage claim and there is a guy wearing an old school (V-notch) Tiger Williams jersey.
Porter 1 (Corio): Rental car and driving.
2:00 (minor) Turtling: Auston. Missing FH draft
2:00 (minor) Turtling: Ralph. Missing FH draft
4:00 (double minor) Turtling: McV. AWOL from FH league and draft.
2:00 (minor) Delay of Game: Glenny. Getting Jimmy lost on the way to breakfast in Buffalo.
Panos Diner, Buffalo 1 (Chambers): 40 bucks feeds five, including large OJs. Good cheap eats.
Corio 1 (Chambers): Keeps straight face while telling Canadian border guard we're there for the FHL Draft.
2:00 (minor) Reticence: Jimmy. Not asking Canadian border guard if he thinks Cheechoo will keep it up.
Tim Hortons 1 (unassisted): Coffee, doughnuts and a new travel mug for Glenn.
2:00 (minor) Navigational Misconduct: Glenny. Trying to avoid visit to Niagra Falls.
2:00 (minor) Provincial Minor: Toronto. One way streets messing up tourist navigation.
2:00 (minor) Ethnic Misconduct: Glenny. Describing how room at La Grange reeks of curry as elevator door opens and an Indian woman is standing there.
Fat Belgian Restaurant 1 (Cute waitress): Jimmy and Adrian liked her. Friday dinner complete with several Belgian beers.
Corio 2 (unassisted): Setting up WiFi at La Grange for testing when he didn't have to.
Hoddick, T. 1 (Technicolor): Gutting out several grueling LA-Europe biz trips in order to take this one and stay at the Sheraton gratis.
Corio 3 (Nancy): Making commitment from west coast travel two consecutive years.
2:00 (minor) Brewery Misconduct: Keith's Brewery. Adrian thinks the Vitamin K isn't hoppy enough.
2:00 (minor) Instigator, Complaining about snoring: Adrian.
2:00 (minor) Excessive Snoring: Glenny.
2:00 (minor) 2nd Man In, Excessive Snoring: Jimmy.
20:00 (Game Misconduct, Gross Misconduct) Simply for existing: The Grange Hostellerie, Toronto. Being disgusting and depriving us of $260 Cdn for two nights of sleep.
Second Period (Saturday)
2:00 (minor) Turtling: Quan. We came to your country man!
2:00 (minor) Turtling: Bisson. Holding the bucket but not showing up to the draft.
Quan 1 (unassisted): Supporting the beer habit via remote.
Tim Hortons 2 (unassisted): More coffee, doughnuts (for some) and a panhandling doorman.
Hoddick, T 2 (Hoddick, A): Setting up WiFi at Sheraton.
Pasquale, Manon 1 (Marco): 13 month old Sebastien = Cute Kid.
Bisson 1 (unassisted): Informs PHL that beer is IN The Bucket.
Hoddick, T 3 (Chambers): Random drawing second 1st pick in two years.
5:00 (Major) Unsportsman like conduct: Adrian. Bragging about draft prep then complaining about picking 17th.
Hoddick, A 1 (unassisted): Amy rescues WiFi connection during temporary disconnect, affecting only 2 picks.
Hoddick, A 2 (unassisted): Annoying TPSH and Canucksuck with timely draft picks.
Pasquale, Marco 1 (unassisted): Scores good pizza for draft party.
2:00 (minor) Canadian English: Pizza place. Bacon on Hawaiian Pizza.
Porter, Jeff 1 (unassisted): Rolls into the draft party with two cases of beer.
Corio 4 (Hoddick, T): Beer cab run after Gretzky's
Third Period (Sunday)
