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Click here for pictures from the Commandant's Cup Ice Hockey Tournament!

BMCS Mike Camire (ret) recently wrote a great article in the Otis Notice, the on Base Publication about the Floor Hockey Tournament, click here to read the story. Great job Mike, thanks!

CONGRATULATIONS to the ACADEMY Team - the 16th Annual Admiral's Cup Champions!!! (read the article from the USCGA site)

Player Stats Link is updated for this year........

Well another year has come and gone.  I have to say this year was another successful tournament and each team played their hearts out.  And when I mean played their hearts out, I really and truly mean that. For those of you that may have left prior to the final between the Plank Owners and Academy you may have missed one of the BEST games I have witnessed in my 16 years of being involved in this tournament.  This game was the real thing.
 
We all witnessed some of the best goaltending this tournament had seen in years.  Plankowners Goalie Phil Wolf stood on his head and made countless clutch saves after saves, as the young guns from the Academy peppered him from ever angle of the rink but Phil did not break. 
Not to be out done was another fine Goaltender, Andy Palladino, he played cool as a one could be and withstood a counter attack that was set in to motion by an old veteran team like the Plank Owners team always does. 

The Plank Owners scored first and held the lead for two periods.  However, early in the third the Academy team just would not give up their countless fore checking and cycling down low finally paid off and they tied the score at two.  This battle of these two Titians went back and forth which each goaltender keeping their team in the game by making clutch save after saves, and at one point late in the third Plank Owners thought they had the third goal only to be waived off by the referee saying it hit the post and came out.  So at the end of regulation play the score was tied at 2 to 2.

Into the overtime we go, and again each goaltender came up big once again, but early in the second overtime the Academy team proofed to be the better team by scoring on a well set up play that beat Plank Owner goalie Phil Wolf.

So with that said…  Congratulations to all of the Academy players and fans.  You guys are true Champions and earned your place among those of us that have drunk from the Cup and you have earned the right to have your name engraved with all the other past Champions.

I now need to take a minute to say this.  I am extremely proud to be affiliated with the Plank Owners team.  While I was stuck on the bench because of an injury I had witnessed this grizzly bunch of old veterans play an extremely hard game against a very young and talented Boston team just prior to playing in the championship game.  Then I witness another game right after that…. And that game was a game of all games.  Not taking anything away from the Academy team, because they are and will be a great Championship team and deserve to be called Champions. But I can say this, with a team that has an average age of 39 years young…  You guys have to be the most respected team out their and a tip of my hat to you all.  You would not quit even though your body what too, you would not.  You all make me proud to know you and I look forward seeing you next year, hopefully feeling the pain, well not actually the pain.
 
And for all of the other teams that showed up this year.  Teamworks management has stated to me that they look forward to us returning once again because we are the most respectful teams that play in a any tournament that they but on and both referees said that they love referring this tournament because of the sportsmanship that you all show for one another.  All of you should be proud of yourselves, I know I am.

Some of this years award winners:

Admirals Cup winners: Academy

2008 MVP Phil Wolf Plank Owners

2008 Best Goalie Andrew Palladino

2008 Team MVP and leading scorer with 18 points Dewey Worker

You can check all this out at http://teamworkswarwick.com/ then use our user and password which is uscg for both user name and password.  Then click on Stats & Schedules, then adult stats, and then scroll down to Coast Guard tournament.

See you all next year and I hope to make next year’s tournament even better.  Looking into having a skills portion on Thursday then start the tournament Friday & Saturday.  I will keep you posted and as always we need pictures so send them in as soon as you can get them so Scooter can post them.

Team Captains if I have left some players of your team off of this e-mail could you forward this to them plus Cc: me so I can add them to my bang list.

Again thank you all for playing, you’re the ones that make this work.

Paul

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