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that was being held by a defender.  That great pass gave Beak his second goal of the game.
George Chelios set up The Nailer for his first goal of the season, while Mike Ladas made it possible for Beer Nuts to score and perform his glove shooting celebration.  One of these days, I'd like to see Buck Shot or Klinger shoot his glove out of the air with one of their weapons.  Rivermen Assistant Coach, Luke Gruden, helped Dennis The Guest get the fastest Duffer Natural Hat Trick.  Dennis tapped in a pass from Luke late in the second period.  5 seconds later, Luke found Dennis' stick with a pass from the blue line that back doored the goalie for goal #2.  Dennis went to the bench, because he was trying to follow another quirky Duffer rule.  Duffer tradition usually injects the 2 goal limit rule.  It saves the scored on line from further embarrassment by giving them a seat on the pines.  The guys on the bench were so tired from skating 4 on 4 for over an hour that they wouldn't replace the line that just got out there.  Dennis was called back out by Luke with the promise of a natural 

who was doing dishes.  He grabbed his pads and was at the rink 35 minutes later.  Beak was the most relieved person in Peoria, because he remembers the last time he played goalie (Sometime in the 80s) He kept getting shot in the back, the butt, the back of his legs.  He vowed never to do that again, and thanks to the guy that gave up doing the dishes, he was able to keep that promise to himself.  There was a lot of meaningful scoring, thanks to the unselfish passing of the speedy youngsters.  We had 6 Duffers bail out of the Peoria experience on Friday, so Beak was forced to invite some guests, because Art and some of the Peoria Duffers were coaching at State tournaments.  The following Duffers made the trip:  Wheezer, Berserk, Beer-Nuts, Hansen Brother, Rich Storm, The Nailer and Beak. 
The new guests had the Duffer scoring system explained to them before the game.  When George Chelios went out for the opening face off, He asked Beak if He was serious about him not being able to score.  Beak told him, "You can score, it just doesn't mean anything."  Another guest, Pete Hornick, (He played for Beak in the 80s) kept trying to spring Beak with passes that would spring Tweedy, but were not connecting with the somewhat slower Lopatka.  He finally gauged Beak's velocity in the 2nd period when he gave Beak an easy tap in goal.  Larry had the pass of the game when he threaded a pass through a maze of legs and hit Beak's stick

Hat trick.  15 seconds later, Dennis had the fastest Hat Trick in Duffer History. 

We watched the Rivermen beat Toledo in overtime.  To move into a first place tie.  Duke shut out the Storm on Sunday to move 2 points ahead of the pack. 

We went to eat at Babe's after the game where Dock's daughter waited on us.  Rich Storm and Wendy were playing Dueling crossword puzzles in the Berserk Van.