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March 8-11 Columbus Trip

The Duffers are going to Columbus March 8-11. It is not too late to join in.  Give Mike a $100 and you can join in the fun. The trip will be very affordable. The price goes down with every seat we fill.

MLF Game is on Saturday, April 14, 2012

Schedule: 

Wednesday Lunch at the Neutral Zone at 1:00

Turn on your speakers to hear "Life is Complicated"  

Duffer Trivia

• Magoo was the 3rd Duffer to get the Most Improved Player award. What year was that? What was his Nickname then? John "F. Lee" Landry received the award in 1979

• Who were the other winners of that prestigious award?  (That award was discontinued when we stopped improving) 1973, Wally Kraft was the first to win the MIP. There were no winners until 1977, when  Mike "The Painter" Macica was awarded the Most Improved Player trophy at the 1st Annual Duffer Picnic at Argonne Woods. Paul The Commander Jankowski received the award in 1978.  Gene "Thor" Miller won it in 1980. Tom "Slime Dog" Kowalkowski and Jim "Titz" Michalson were awarded the trophy in 1981. Frank Presecki won it in 1982.  In 1983 The King was presented with the “King’s Meaningless Trophy” and Bill "Klinger" Giffune was awarded the Most Improved Player trophy at the 7th Annual Duffer Picnic at Argonne Woods. Stump Barczynski is the first commoner to receive the “King’s Meaningless Trophy” and John "Gomez" Santoro was awarded the Most Improved Player trophy.  

• When did we start giving the least dis-improved award? Name one of the recipients. In 1984 we stopped improving. so we started giving the Least Dis-improved award.  Dan Mazanec and Klinger were the only Duffers that admitted getting that award before it was discontinued. 

• What year did Beak and his son Ken take a college course in Hockey? What grades did they earn? In the summer of 1980, Beak and his son Grandpa Ken signed up for a College of DuPage course in Hockey.  Beak got an A and his son got a B even though his slap shot lit up the radar gun at 95 MPH.  The radar gun was unable to read Beak's shot, but he had perfect attendance. (Ken's attendance was less than perfect)

Answers from last week

• Who had the first Duffer shut out? Who had the second one? Stump shut out the Blues 6-0 on January 25, 1990.  He Shut them out again on March 23 the same year with the same score!

• What year did the Duffers have their first Thanksgiving game?  November, 27, 1980, after the 1980 Miracle on Ice, Wally Kraft made up 2 teams for the 1st Turkey Skate. He gave out hand outs with the teams on the Friday before.  It was a 12-3 blow out, as He stacked his team with young guns.

• When was the King's Meaningless Trophy missing?  Who lost it? Who found it? Bill “Klinger” Giffune was awarded  the “King’s Meaningless Trophy” at The 1993 Picnic,  He kept it for 3 years. The trophy was so meaningless that no one could remember who had it. No one was awarded the trophy for 3 years until Klinger found it in his basement under a pile of Slider boxes. 2 of them still contained fossilized sliders!  Thor, Papa Joe and Harvey were given the meaningless trophy at the 1996 picnic to make up for the missing years.

• How many more hits does the Duffer History page need to get to 10,000? The Duffer History page has 9,959 hits, you do the math. 

Answers will be given at the Wednesday lunch.  If you can't wait, go to the Duffer History page.

Answers from The week Before

• When and Where did we skate outdoors? Green Bay, December 1995

• Who broke the youngest Duffer goal record held by Tweedy since 1981? Frank's Grandson Bobby Fetting was a few months younger than Tweedy.

• When was Don Granato is named head coach of the Worcester Ice Cats? August 20, 2000, just a few months after winning the Kelly Cup in Peoria.

• When were the Duffers described as “self-deprecating” in the Chicago Tribune? 

  February 3, 1998, the Duffers were described as “self-deprecating” in the Chicago Tribune.  A page and a half was devoted to Cammi Granato. Ten days later on the other side of the world, Cammi Granato was busy scoring 2 goals and setting up 2 more as Team USA scored 6 goals in the 3rd period to Beat Canada 7-4 in Nagano, Japan.

Our Duffer Dentist was the Technical Advisor for the movie 

Dr. Keith Suchy, the Duffer Dentist gives Duffer Discounts! Keith played 6 games in 1990 and had 2 goals and 8 assists! Go to Statistics for 1991