September 16-19

Monday morning at the mall, in the afternoon I stopped by the rink and did some prelim work for the start of the new season. On Tuesday night our 81st championship season opened with all eight teams in action. The first season on the rink at Reservoir Park started in December of 1979 (because nobody wanted to wait until spring) and ended in March, the second started a month later and we've retained that format ever since (for record-keeping purposes the first season is referred to as "Fall 1979"). Tuesday's results featured the Killbots over Dutchmaid, Risky Business over the Owls, the Trashers (formerly the Express) over the Hammerheads and Nice Truth Solution (the former Tradesmen and hereafter known in this blog as NTS) over the Misfits. It is merely a coincidence that the Killbots and Dutchmaid (the league's two new teams) met each other on the first night, the schedule is made up by assigning a number to each team and that particular matchup just happened to occur within the first block of games (which repeat when the schedule's second half starts on October 10). On any opening night the teams tend to be somewhat disorganized, we try to keep things together and all things considered it went about as well as could be expected. Jenny and I had our usual midweek lunch date on Wednesday, on Thursday evening we were back at the rink for night #2. On this night The Killbots beat Risky Business, the Hammerheads defeated Dutchmaid, NTS won over the Owls and the Misfits took out the Trashers (I admit that's a poor joke but what the hell....). Week One is in the books and we're already well ahead of the Fall 2018 season, that year we started one week later and the entire first week save for one game was wiped out by rain. Take care, thanks for reading.