Almost three week break between the seasons did slow down a bunch of B-League players but gave them a better chance to watch NHL playoff games. Impressed by scoring results of the Detroit Red Wings players Hooters exercised their own scoring success in the game against Seals. Who scored? Better ask who didn't. Steve opened the score by a beautiful back hand shot from a rather sharp angle. Scott assisted Eugene to score the second goal and then Brett to score the third. Soon after that  Brett slapped in another one. 4-0. Seals came back for a while and scored a goal. Eugene got in the corner and centered the puck right onto the Jeff's hook who then rocketed it in the net. 5-1. Then Sean demonstrated his perfect killer-slapper. Bang! 6-1. A few minutes left to play the game Seals managed to put another one. 6-2. Excellent start by Hooters. After this game the entire team was taking biking lessons in the parking lot taught by Willy until almost 2 a.m.. Jeez!

GAME 2. STEAMING HOOTERS FORMED CLOUDS IN THE NORTHERN SKY AND STARS FADED AWAY 4-0!
It took a few minutes to score the first goal. Eugene made a good pass to Mike and he scored his first goal in this season.  So did Kevin A. who got a pass from Brett in the crowded crease and handled it professionally. 2-0.Congratulations, Mike and Kevin A., good job! Stars rushed into offense but all their shots were stopped by Kevin W.. His first shut-down game happened early enough to be motivated for breaking the all-time league record. Jeff exploded in the third period and acting like a twister made all the way to the net all by himself TWICE! 4-0. We only wondered if Zamboni would be able to recover the groves Jeff left all over the ice. That's what he is known for (see "Some Facts"). The results of the first two games proved that in the Hooters team each player is a key player without exceptions.

 GAME 3. HOOTERS FORCED HIGHER GRADE HURRICANES TO LANDFALL IN MEXICO 5-2.
Steve started it all by scoring an early goal. Hooters continued their "defensive" pattern which worked OK as the most goals
were scored by the defensemen. Greg put in the net a blue line slapper. Hurricanes worked hard not to lose their strength and
rushed into offence with a 2-2 tie on the score board. Kevin W. demonstrated a supurb goal tending and well deserved a
"Dominator-II" nick-name not to mention that Hooters did better than Sabres against Capitals. In the third period Sean took his
rocket out of the pocket again, scored a goal and then another one which was assisted by Mike. Finally Mike scored another
goal, thanks to Scott whose "fat" @ss screened the Hurricanes goalie.

GAME 4. HOOTERS HAVE BEEN SCRATCHED BY THE BLACK HAWKS CLAWS AND LET HAWKS SURVIVE  2-2.
Hooters knew the Hawks were gonna grab them and squeeze them. In fact each time a Hooter was gonna pick the puck there were two horny Hawks with blazing claws. Brett picked up the puck in front of the Hooters crease, made it all the way to the Hawks net and wrapped it around.1-0. Come up to Canada, drink Molson! Hawks tied it up soon but in the third period Mike's wrister made it 2-1. One minute left to play the game and Hooters seemed to enjoy the scratches of Hawks by relaxing in front of the net. 2-2. No goals were scored in the overtime. Guiness beer seemed to cure the problem that night for Hooters. Jeff and Kevin A. were not playing. We hoped they were kicking somebody's @ss too.

GAME 5. HOOTERS ENJOYED RESTING ON THE FALLEN MAPLE LEAFS UNTIL THE SIREN WENT OFF 5-0.
Jeff missed the game with Black Hawks last week and had to work hard to keep his average goals per game high. Not only he proved that he is the Hooters most goal scorer, he did a HAT TRICK. Greg assisted the second goal by making an excellent pass. Mike scored his traditional goal-a-game goal. For the first time in his hockey career Willy got himself a nick name "Tikkanen" by making a perfect imitation of Esa Tikkanen when he deked the leaf's goalie then missed the backhander into the wide open net. (The play was a mirror image of Tik's infamous miss in game 2 of the finals). Later Eugene helped him to get over this problem by a puck-to-hook pass which ended up with a goal. 5-0. Then Kevin W. forgot that he was gonna break the all time B-League record and Hooters defense helped him to let the one in at the sound of the final siren. But the goal was disallowed as there was an off-side call and Kevin W. still got the second shut-out game in the season. When Hooters set up two Igloos full of beers in the parking lot, Dead Wings who played the previous game were still there. Guess what, Hooters and Dead Wings demonstrated a hockey marketing perspective to Budweiser even though it was 1:50 in the morning and Sean was playing a heavy metal music CD all the time. Police patrol cars were passing by the Sharpstown Ice Center. They knew that what was going on is not unusual.

GAME 6. "BETTER DEAD THAN RED", BUT HOOTERS SAID: "BETTER CHICKEN THAN DEAD". 3-1.
A very dramatic game with a bunch of penalties started bad for Dead Wings when during the first few minutes of the first period assisted by Scott Mike scored his goal-a-game by sending the puck into a tiny slot between the goalie and the right post. Soon the Dead showed some life and scored a goal on the rebound. Tension remained until the end of the second period when Eugene got lose from the two alien wings hanging all over his @ss and put the puck in the net. Suffering from Fedorov's syndrome of assisting and not scoring enough he could not miss this one as the puck was resting in the crease all by itself and ready to go. During the third period Scott bulldozed the third goal leaving very weak chances for the Dead to come alive. Not to mention a great save Kevin W. made in one-on-one situation. They wanted to take Brett in their grave but he "resisted" and got suspended for the next game by beating a ^&@* out of their defenceman. Canadian dudes know how to do that, eh. It did not make any sence to pull the goalie and Dead Wings finally collapsed.

GAME 7. HOOTERS THOUGHT THE BLACK STARS WERE REALLY BLACK BUT THEY END UP BEING PALE WHITE. 5-0.
It was a rather quiet, no rush, one way traffic game. Greg, Steve, "Tik", Jeff and Skip each scored a goal. Scott sticked to the crease to get his birthday present - a good pass or a rebound, but finally could not enjoy anything but a high spirit of the team's victory. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SCOTTY! So did Eugene who worked hard and was positioning himself well enough to get a good scoring chance. Kevin W. was ready to deny more than just and only 6 shots on goal and got counted for the third shut-out game. In any scenario, his teammates believed that if Stars could manage more shots Kevin would most likely stop them all. Although the game did not cause too much sweat it did not affect the amount of beer we drank that night.

GAME 8. BEING ATTRACTED BY THE "BOUNCING HOOTERS" AMERICANS RELAXED AND GOT HIT TWICE IN THE HEAD TO LEAVE THE ICE WITH A BRAIN TUMOR. 2-0.
Americans seemed to be hypnotized and all through the game did not create any serious pressure which could result in goals. Their fewer chances were denied by Kevin W., who gained his fourth shut-out game! Good job! Hooters played very well although they missed their two center forwards (Mike and Jeff) and the lines were rearranged. Hooters were all over the ice. Americans tried to grab them and got a bunch of penalties each time they tried to squeeze a Hooter. Numerous unaccounted shots on goal were denied by a very well playing opponent's goalie. Individual efforts made all the difference. Skip managed to score a beautiful solo goal and Willy scored on the rebound of his own shot.

GAME 9. AFTER SUCCESSFUL DRILLING OF AN ASTEROID IN SPACE ROUGHNECKS COULD NOT EVEN DRILL THE SOFT HOOTERS, PROBABLY THEIR BITS HAVE BEEN WORN OUT BY THEN. 5-1.
What could be worse than putting the puck in your own net in a short while after the game has started? 1-0. This goal was pretty well compensated when a Roughneck got a "pass" from a Hooter behind the goalie and across the crease to make it 1-1. Everything was settled down in the second period.   Eugene got a pass, played around the defenceman and put the puck in the net. Then Greg performed an excellent laser beam wrister to make it 3-1. Right after that Eugene got another goal on the rebound in the crowded crease area. 4-1. Nobody was surprised when Willy proved his super back hand shot technique by scoring the fifth goal. During the third period Hooters were mostly thinking of the coming beer in the parking lot and did not push hard to score when having plenty of chances.

GAME 10. SUFFERING FROM THE STARRY ILLNESS HOOTERS WERE BLINDED BY SHINING STARS IN THE OVERTIME. 2-3.
Kevin played very well and so did Stars. They managed to come back after 2 goals scored by Jeff and tied the game with about 4 minutes left in the third period. Hooters lost their first game in the season during the overtime by letting the opponents shoot multiple times toward the net and score after so many attempts when Hooters were shorthanded. The team continues to lead the B-League standings and will be facing Panthers who have been heavily breathing in the Hooters butts for a while.

GAME 11. PANTHERS PROVED THEIR POINT AGAIN. 1-3.
Like in the final game of the previous season championship Panthers scored an early goal in the first period. This game was the first in this season when Hooters let the opponent score first. Bad sign was proven in the second period when they scored 2 goals in the second period. Mike was luckier than anybody to perform his goal-a-game shot. 1-3. The third period was scoreless despite the efforts Hooters put into the play. Panthers tied Hooters but moved up to the first place due to a team-to-team competition result. Hooters finished SECOND and in the play-offs will play the team which finishes third.

SEMIFINALS: HOOTERS CHALLANGED HAWKS BY HIGH TEAM SPIRIT AND FRUITFUL INDIVIDUAL EFFORTS TO WIN. 5-3.
Jeff played very well and managed another hat trick in this season. Sean performed two excellent slapshots to kill Hawks's hope to survive in this game. Nothing worked for them and it is Hooters who will play Americans in the championship game.

FINAL GAME: HOOTERS PROVED THEIR STRENGTH AND WON THE CHAMPIONSHIP BY DEFEATING THE FAMOUS AMERICANS. 2-0.
Hooters put a very heavy pressure on Americans right from the start. After tremendous team efforts Scott found a puck in the opponent's crease and scored the first goal. There were many more chances Eugene, Steve, Jeff, Willy, Mike had which were denied by a very well playing Americans goalie. Kevin W. was hanging out in Chicago and his place was taken by Tung who was a little nervous in the beginning but finally demonstrated an excellent goal tending. In the second period Skip got a pass from Jeff to get one-on-one and performed a great scoring technique. Tension was high in the third period but no goals were scored.
Siren ended up the season. WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS AGAIN!