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Semi-true stories and pictures of that Lake Placid 1982  trip are posted.

Duffer-Hayward History page 

The Duffers have a 4 page spread in the Plainfield Enterprise.  You can see it at: http://www.lopatka.net//2013-Enterprise/2013-Enterprise.htm

  The next Tilted Kilt Lunch is on Wednesday, July 24th at 1:00.  Kane County Cougars game on July 31st.

Golf Outing on August 24th.

Magoo   Tweedy
Fred B    Brinks
Thor       Geno
Greg Z   Beak

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We went to the Cougar game and Tweedy's butt was on the cover of the program with his son Luke.  I bought that Ernie Banks uniform for my son Ken in 1969.  It was handed down to Dan in the mid 70s.  I found it in the attic and handed it down to Luke.  Last Fall, when Dan took Luke to a Cub game, They took pictures of him and gave him an autographed ball.

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For $6 (Senior Discount) we had row B seats by the dugout.  After the game, Boris asked if we could run the bases.  The guy said, "Sure, we'll give you a senior discount and you can start at 2nd base"  We saw 250 pound Dan Vogelbach hit a 2 run homerun in the 8th, then 225 pound Rock Shoulders followed that with a long homerun to right center field.  That was the best 6 bucks I ever spent.

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Duffers Hockey Canlan Ice Sports Romeoville 2013-2014 Schedule

week, Date           Time Rink #

1 August 9, 2013 8:30 PM 2 ***

2 September 6, 2013 8:40 PM 1

3 September 13, 2013 8:40 PM 2

4 September 20, 2013 8:40 PM 2

5 September 27, 2013 8:40 PM 2

6 October 4, 2013 8:40 PM 2

7 October 11, 2013 8:40 PM 2

8 October 18, 2013 8:40 PM 3

9 October 25, 2013 8:40 PM 3

10 November 1, 2013 NO ICE

11 November 8, 2013 NO ICE

12 November 15, 2013 8:40 PM 2

13 November 22, 2013 NO ICE

13 THANKSGIVING TBA

13 November 29, 2013 TBA

14 December 6, 2013 8:40 PM 2

15 December 13, 2013 8:40 PM 3

16 December 20, 2013 8:40 PM 2

17 December 27, 2013 8:40 PM 2

18 January 3, 2014 8:40 PM 2

19 January 10, 2014 8:40 PM 2

20 January 17, 2014 8:40 PM 3

21 January 24, 2014 8:40 PM 3

22 January 31, 2014 8:40 PM 2

23 February 7, 2014 NO ICE 2

24 February 14, 2014 8:40 PM 2

25 February 21, 2014 8:40 PM 2

26 February 28, 2014 8:40 PM 2

27 March 7, 2014 8:40 PM 2

28 March 14, 2014 8:40 PM 2

29 March 21, 2014 8:40 PM 3

30 March 28, 2014 8:40 PM 2

31 April 4, 2014 8:40 PM 2

32 April 11, 2014 8:40 PM 2

33 April 18, 2014 8:40 PM 2

34 April 25, 2014 8:40 PM 2

35 May 2, 2014 8:40 PM 2

36 May 9, 2014 8:40 PM 2

 

Duffer News

Beautiful Day for a Picnic!

Romeoville, IL
June 13, 2013

Attendance: 201

Thanks to Tom and Ericka for a great Picnic!
For years, Hacksaw would negotiate with a former Argonne employee and get us a permit to picnic at the Argonne Picnic grounds.  The last few years, Boris has become enamored with the Florida Sun and has become unreliable.  Last year we had to settle for a September date that had us drinking coffee and hot chocolate instead of beer.  

Brinks got the beer flowing so that Ericka could do a taste test.

After that frigid picnic, Tommy Z told the Czar that he could get a permit from his wife to use their house and yard on any day that she approved.  That move turned out to a stroke of genus and we went on to have a great picnic.  Beak gave Ericka a copy of Argonne picnic rules.  After carefully reading them, she was puzzled by the ban on penetration. 
Our Thanks to the Following Duffers:

  • Brinks delivered 2 full kegs of beer and then returned the empties on Monday
  • Tom Ambrosia and Klinger delivered the grill
  • Kevin & Tweedy brought 25 lbs sausage, 5 lbs of beef and cooler
  • Rags brought Desert as did someone else
  • Bill BTW brought something while I was having a beer
  • Tommy z brought 4 bags of charcoal, jardinière, onions, green peppers and his house
  • V man - 48 feet of bread
  • Beak. -  Electric lighter, extension cord, butter can, awards and apron
  • Franek - paper products
  • Geno- Cooler, pop (2 cases) water (2 cases)
  • Terry - 32 hot dogs, cooler, buns, and condiments
  • Greg Z - case of corn, 2 lbs of butter, in a cooler
  • Thor-Czar Brought the Picnic Sign

Awards

Geno was given the Klinger Krash Award, as was Dylan Nance. 
The winner of the Meaningless Award did not show up. 
Nobody was perfect this year.

The Cook and the tester.

 

Klinger Krash History

2001 Beak  had his skate blade snapped off by Super Dave's stick.  The plaque was created

2002. Stump became the first Duffer to win the Klinger Krash Award for his triple flip

2003. Frank took a tumble in warm ups and hit his head

2004. The Alien got a concussion and was given the award when the Brain was late.  The Brain had a crash with Mini Wheezer and would have received the award if he had been there on time.

2005. Mini Wheezer did something spectacular.

2006-Thor had 3 self inflicted spectacular crashes in March, where he threw his stick into the air, then he caused play to stop for laughter breaks. 


2007-Hacksaw had several ugly spills where he landed on his head, while serving as a Duffer Referee trying to avoid Klinger Krashes that players usually incur. 


2008-Maestro had a Klinger Krash that occurred when he was flipped upside down by "The Bookie", who slammed into him.  The Krash stopped action while players laughed for several minutes!


2009-Terry "Crash" Nance For averaging 4 Klinger Krashs per game, some assisted, some unassisted, some are spectacular, while others go almost unnoticed.  The Terry Krash-O-Meter was named after him.  This is the first year that there were no other nominations!


2010, Nashville Tennessee -"Joe Face Plant" Evans For a painful Klinger Krash in Nashville when he planted his face on the ice while dropping the puck for a "Face Off"!

2011- March 4th 
between periods Tom Zagorski leaned against a door that was not there and tumbled backwards out of the rink. We laughed until the puck was dropped.

2012-February 3rd:
V-Man suffered a mysterious self inflicted Klinger Krash. No one touched him, but Mini Wheezer was spotted on the bench poking a pin into a miniature V-Man Voodoo Doll.

2013 March 15th Geno bloodied his nose and rattled his eye on Berserk's shoulder. He came off, wiped the blood off of his shield, took his eye out and wiped it off then returned to the ice. Dylan Nance was given a Mini Klinger Krash award for getting crushed by his Dad on May .

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The Beer was delivered and set up by Brinks.  Ericka gave it a taste test.

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T&A delivered the Duffer Grill at 11:00.

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We had 4 strong backs to get it off of the trailer.

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Beak tested the Duffer Apron.

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Thor tested the tongs.

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Jan was the first brave female to arrive.

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The Kids jumped in the pool.

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Tweedy and Paul.

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Dylan received the Mini Klinger Krash Award.

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Tommy Z receives his laminated Krash Award.

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Geno accepts the Klinger Krash Award.

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Jimmy Bones got a Penguin autographed pennant.

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Dylan accepts the Meaningless Award for ???.

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Mini Wheezer presented this Gnome to Beak.

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A big thanks to his sister Paula  for this gift.

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Go to the Last Duffer News

Go to 2012 The Last MLF Game

Go to 2011 MLF Game (Anvil's Daughter won it!)

Go to 2010 The First MLF Game

Visit The Rampage Women's Hockey Team web site at: http://www.rampagehockey.org/index.cfm

They Have 2 WODs and  on their team. Their DOD moved to Canada for Graduate School.

WOD=Wife Of a Duffer, DOD = Daughter of a Duffer

Links to Duffer Hockey Newsletters

2008-2010 Stats page

Tweedy's Wags Game

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Peoria History

Nashville Game 2

Bill Gaston interview

Michelle Spillman hits and fields

      

To E-mail the Duffer News Web master, just click here! g.lopatka@comcast.net

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Michelle Spillman

Michelle Spillman 10-31-10

Michelle hits a 2 run home run for Romeoville High School in a 3-0 victory against Joliet Catholic Academy.

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Michelle Spillman hit a 2 run Home run to beat Joliet Catholic on April 18, 2012. ... greg Lopatka ... Michelle Spillman and Romeoville High School. ...

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Michelle Spillman hit her 4th homerun on April 21, 2012 to beat Hershey High. ... greg Lopatka ... Michelle Spillman "outdoor sports" ...

 

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Michelle hit a triple to help beat Highland Park High 8-5 on 4/21/2012.