Take Five

After winning an astounding 5th consecutive league championship, local ice hockey team the Black Aces put in a tepid showing at the traditional post-season awards show and pizza fest last week. Only a couple of Aces could apparently be arsed to show up this year, probably because they think they all that now they win a couple times.

Aces gave various  reasons for skipping the bash at Ferro.

Simon C was tied up in pre-production of the X-Men movie “AceMen: Hockey Apocalypse”, which he was tagged to direct after producers caught wind of his incredible performance in this year’s COTHL playoffs.

Mark L was busy hosting the Real Housewives of Toronto at his downtown penthouse condo. Rumour has it that he is negotiating a TV deal for his own reality show, tentatively titled “Mark Shags the Real Housewives of Toronto” and could not get away to attend the hockey party at Ferro.

Team puckstopper John M was overbooked, and (if my intel is correct) was leading a covert operation into ISIS territory, where a battalion of 72 virgins under his command were attempting to smash the terrorist bastards once and for all.

Team spirit animal Rod P was busy knitting team victory hats for everyone.

Nautical specialist Al H was interviewing cabin boys for his next off-season sailing adventure.

Bruce H: heli-skiing in the Rockies. With Team owner Paul F.

Pete S: “parent-teacher night” whatever that means.

Pete T: prepping for his audition as Neil Peart’s replacement in Rush.

Paul M: is getting ready to be the first man to race and win both the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix whilst towing a trailer full of hockey equipment. Good luck Paul!

Joe H: is in Mexico or something. Yeah, right.

Another amazing season, Aces. We now take our place beside such other sporting dynasties as:

• The 1956 - 1960 Montreal Canadiens
• F1 driver Michael Schumacher, who won 5 consecutive championships with Ferrari from 2000 to 2004
• the 1949 - 1953 New York Yankees
• Miguel Indurain, Tour de France winner 1991 - 1995. 

Next on the calendar: some well-deserved golf / training camp preparations. In the meantime here are the victory pics to remind everyone of just how awesome this team is:

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