John Edwards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
 
>I have to ask....
>
>John Patterson writes:
>>
>> OSU held its hockey banquet on Saturday, May 5, 1996. The awards were:
>>
>> Off-Ice Officials' Penalty Box Award
>>    -Jeff Winter
>
>What is the "Penalty Box Award" for? Is Jeff the player that the people in
>the penalty box, let's just say, got to know the best? ;-)
>
 
The award consists of an actual folding chair used in the OSU penalty box
during the regular season, complete with a lovely bronze plaque bearing the
recipient's name.  When the award was presented, the presenting off-ice
official quoted "Slap Shot" and a character's summation of the penalty box
(someone will have to fill in the character and all the rest of the
dialogue...I know how shameful it is that I don't have the movie committed
to memory).  It's not the most penalty minutes--of course, that award would
go to Stevie Brent, with something like 108 minutes--but the player who
assumes the right attitude in the box.  There's a certain air of disbelief,
a way of behaving in the box that gets the attention of the off-ice
officials.  And, of course, the recipient must "feel shame."  Jeff Winter
definitely deserved the award.
 
Paula C. Weston
Girl Reporter
 
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