Straight from the resurrected Home Office in East Lansing, MI, the final results
in the 1994 Totally Unofficial Hockey-L Prediction Contest!
As some of you may have seen on my Holy Saturday post (which is funny, because
I didn't see it myself until this morning), Lake Superior's thumping of BU made
my job a lot easier. I didn't even need to invoke the tiebreaker.
The winner, and overall extremely lucky SOB is............................
SEAN HAMES
with a grand total of 28 points!
The rest of us poor demented slobs, in order of finish:
27 points- Bill Fenwick, Craig Mitchell
26 points- J. Panch, Dave Elwell, Ross Bracco, Dean Barker
25 points- Richard Snipes, Glen Keeney, George Line
24 points- William Neifert, A. Sheetz
23 points- ME (and you thought I was just another pretty face!), Bri Farenell,
Chris Boston, Eric Robinson
22 points- Andrew Rapoff, Tom Clarke, Steve Nieman, David Weinberg
21 points- Kevin Erskine, Michael Feinstein
20 points- Wayne Smith, Greg Gdowski, Thomas Rowe, Joel Graber, Tony Viglione,
Tyler Cyr
19 points- Brian Frankie, Chris Paine, Tim Newman, Chris Lerch, Dave Nicolai,
18 points- Dan Neely, Bob Constantine
17 points- Ron Sperber, Davoud Zahedi, Zach Davis, Mark Johnson
16 points- Mark Grassl, Rob Callum
15 points- Bill Link, Joe Tosh, Jeff Old, Dan Lumin
14 points- Tim Harrison, John Edwards, S. Arnie Johnson, John Forsyth, Eugene
Shen, Robert Mayville, Doug Peterson
13 points- Daniel Fischer, Matt Bruce, Alex Relyea, John Davenport, Tark
Matthews, Kenneth Jaslow
12 points- Scott Preadmore, Chris Morgan, Brian Zive, Laura Myott, Glenn Gale,
Steve Philbrick, Tony Biscardi, Chris Dietrich, Mike Gilbert, Rick
Taft, Debbie Somers, Rob Holmes, Tom Hancock, Stephanie Dines,
Willis Lam, Anne Gilbert, Steve Allen-Shinn, Matt Evans, Dave
Naghski
11 points- Eric Maiwald, Dan Kallman, Kevin Yetman, Lloyd Hsu, James Old, John
Hauessler, Brian Gentry, Sam Nichols, Nicholas Strangas, Andrew
Peed, Kap, Steve Glaze, Matt Schechter, Wendy Istvanick (I still
have a copy of the reasons "Why Hockey is Better than Sex" in my
directory)
10 points- John Hughes, Tim Danehy, Steve Phillips, Walt Olson, Jim Baines,
Matt Glaccum, Tim McIntosh, Jeffrey Kelly, John Meier, Mike
McAlear, David O'Hara, Robert Vandergraaf, Michael Alpert
9 points- Joe Dintino, Rich Boehme, Charlie Shub, Mark Wagner, Robert Whitaker,
Kristen Robinson, Ed Preist, Charles O'Brien, Rick Feldhoff, Kevin
Reester, Steve Manning
8 points- Harvey Sernovitz, Paul Barber
7 points- Lee Klancher, Tim Johnson, Patrick Blake, Matt Rein, Dave Hendrickson,
Robert Thielke, John Nash, Bruce Seely/Dean Woodbeck
6 points- Jayson Moy, Paul Merchant, Russell Jaslow, Andrew Wagner
5 points- Greg Berge, Paul Armstrong, Mike Machnik
4 points- Brian Albrecht
for comparison- TCHCR 14 points
CHODR 11 points
If anybody feels bad about the fact that Sean won, take some solace. He missed
the final score by 5 goals.
Anyway, my impressions (from my living room floor in front of the 27" diagonal
Admiral color TV, turned to Channel 18 with occasional flips to Channel 3 to
root for Florida) of the championship game.
1) While the final score may not have been totally emblematic of the game, it
wasn't far off. Guess we can ditch that "clutch-and-grab" moniker for the
Lakers that people wanted to give them. I don't know too many C&G teams
that score 9 against someone like BU. If you want to see a real C&G team
some time, watch WMU play (no offense to Bronco fans).
2) Who out there was trying to convince me that Bob Norton was a good
announcer? Come on! God, the man openly cheered for BU in the first
period, kept calling one of the goals that LSSU scored in the semis an
illegal pick, and only stopped cheering for the Terriers when Lake St. blew
the game wide open! I've always liked Sean McDonough (obviously, he gets
it from his mother) and thought he did a pretty good job in what turned out
to be a blowout. Two thumbs up for Sean and two thumbs in my ears (or up
his butt, Jobu) for Bob.
3) Kudos to the Lake St. band. Even through the sometimes poor audio of ESPN,
the dulcet tones of the MSU Fight Song came through loud and clear at least
twice during the game. And we weren't even holding guns to their heads this
time!
4) I'll agree with Mike, Lacher wasn't a factor. He didn't need to be. Min-
imal pressure from BU effectively gave him a night off.
5) Congrats to the Lakers. They didn't even need OT this time. In fact, they
didn't need the 3rd period, either. And, come to think of it, not too much
of the 2nd.
Anyway, those were my thoughts. My wife fell asleep on the couch, said the game
was getting boring. Every time she woke up, they were playing "Anchors Aweigh"
again.
And, now, the pre-pre-pre-pre-announcement of the 1994-95 Totally Unofficial
(Part Deux) Regular Season Hockey-L Prediction Contest!
This one will involve picking the finish of all teams in all four major con-
ferences. Points will be awarded based on the difference between your picks
and the final regular season standings (e.g. you pick Ferris St. to finish
4th and they finish 5th; you get 1 point.) The person with the lowest point
total wins. I'll have to decide on a tiebreaker for this one (maybe something
like conference points for Dartmouth).
This is just to let you know about this one. I will announce it again probably
in September when people really start thinking about the 1994-95 season. I
won't start accepting entries until October 3 (the day after baseball's regular
season ends, I have Rotisserie to concentrate on) and will do so up until the
morning of the first games (which are either October 15 or October 22, I'm not
sure which). So, start thinking ahead!
And, now, I have to go delete about 200 files from my directory.....
G. M. Finniss
Michigan State University- Contest Central (in hibernation until October)
WVU '87, UTenn '92, MSU who the hell knows when?
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P. S. Hibernation doesn't mean I'm signing off the list. I'm just mothballing
the contest department. (Ed, go back to selling Budweiser until I call
ya.)
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