The Drive for Five is Alive

Four time COTHL champs the Black Aces kicked off their 2016-2017 campaign recently, and true to past years' form they iced only a taxi squad for the opening game. The lineup was made up of regulars and keeners John (in goal), Mark, Mike, Rod, Joe 2N, Joe Himalaya, Ralph, Pete, and Jeff. Rounding out the team was first-time callup from the summer league Steve C.

The rest of the Aces were otherwise engaged, and could not find their way to the venerable Phil White Arena for the drop of the puck. Various reasons were give for the no-shows, which I will attempt to parse here now.

Al: lost at sea.
Simon: detained by officials at the Quebec-Ontario border
Bruce: crushed by falling giant stone penis
Paul: forgot he was on the team again
Aubrey: eaten by bears
Rich: poutine poisoning
Pete T: In what surely must be the most elaborate and cryptic excuse for missing a game ever devised, Pete would only say he was tied up with a certain 'Rosetta'. Further investigation has determined that Rosetta is the European Space Agency probe sent to comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, which ended its mission in spectacular style this past week by crashing into the comet. Video and photos of the final descent were, to say the least, surprising.

Here is the official ESA video of the operation:



Here are some frames from various points in the descent:

And here is the final shot sent back from Rosetta to the ESA just before touchdown:

Pete wins the 'what i did on my summer vacation' contest, hands down.

In other news, someone brought the beer. Oh, and the Aces fell 3-2 to the Wyse Guys. A slow start to the season but all part of the master plan in the Drive for Five.

Everything is fine.