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The only player added to this 8-5-1 third place team was Pat Gigante after one of the new players never showed up for his 2nd season.

This playoff series included a 14-2 win over the lowly Ghost Riders. Fitzy played well in net, and now has way more Titles than AK.

They started and finished with pretty much the same 8 skaters.

Chris Spencer picked up another Title. We lost count how many he's won since the league started back in 1999.

Porterhouse went 1-11-2 during the season, but Paul Botolino put together three solid playoff games as the last place team and their upgrades raised the trophy.

Or did they?  The Commish was sick and forgot to bring it. So Gaff supplied some big ass axe plaque.

Dan Armstrong took over the team and righted the ship to victory.

Javier Soto subbed in for Mike Gaff as the playoff Downgrade.

His "cousin" only made a handful of games, and that allowed Dan to double shift Joe Mullen for most of the season.

In the playoffs they were given Rob Mercier as a token Downgrade when the "cousin" stopped showing up. It didn't matter. The Spiders were victorious.

Spencer then retired from the Tuesday League again.

Mike Jones bailed out early in the season. We think Chappie was called in as a playoff sub. (Was Rob Mercier not available?)

The 4-10 Cherries put together a great playoff run to win it all that season.

Kyle's friend jumps in as a mid to low draft pick mid season, and tears up the league.

The Dogs go 11-3, Roy racks up 35 goals and 14 assists in the partial season.

Even with Chappie and Shane, this team was just way too strong.

The Sting had guys coming and going all season long. Then in the playoffs, they struggled to field enough to play.

Jeremy Raymond and Brian Marshall subbed in to give them enough to play and it was the right fit.

Russia 8/21/07 - Tues
Ray Khan, Craig Morelli, Gordie Campbell, Kerry Dowd, Pete Paperno, Matt Clark, Brian Marshall, Collin Currie
Brian Fitzpatrick - G
 

They started off 0-8, that's when Baker and Martini both left the team to pursue other interests. They picked up Craig Morelli and Collin Currie and managed to go 3-3 down the stretch.

In the playoffs as the 8th seed, they knocked off all the top seeds and took home the title without Collin who missed the finals.

This 6th place finisher had the road to the Cup paved nicely by the last place Celtics who knocked off the 1st place Jazz and the 2nd place Bobcats (who should have won it all).

Shane Lemay, Steve Sobenko, and Joe Depalo did not play in the 2nd week of the playoffs. Upgrade !!!

This time there was no Chappie or Griffin Downgrade. Scott Tkachuk and Garret St. Onge both left late in the season, so Higgins was called in as was Rob Mercier. Mercier seems to make it a habit now to get into the Championship photos somehow.

The Cutters nearly blew it in round one, barely getting by the last place Bazookas 6-5. (That's the playoff game that Botolino played). Murf's Missiles and Baker's Bombs didn't put up much of a fight in the second round.

Murf had the flu, and Vinny Bianco subbed in for the last two playoff games.

The 12-2 Cornhuskers choked big time in the semis, losing 8-6 to the 7yh seeded Cocks. The Trojans all had the flu, and the Spartans and sub goalie Chris Spencer make short work in a 9-3 win.

The Title Game was great. A goal by Martini with 2:30 to go was the game winner in the 3-2 final. Jay Collins stopped Jay Rizzo on a penalty shot with 31 seconds left to preserve the win.
 

Like the IceHogs, the Huskies went box to wire. Though this team took several Downgrades, including taking Steve Chappie. (which put Mike McDonald on the 2nd place team which choked in the first round)

Murf's Crusaders were picked to win it all, but they lost in the semis to the Badgers.

Rob Mercier subbed in the last two playoff games for 9th round pick Anthony Mendes. The Championship Game against Dennis' Badger team was a good one. The Huskies needed a goal by Gardner with 1:30 left to force OT.

Then in OT, with Chappie on the court, Moose set up Tkachuk for the winner, 6-5, after the ball hit Craig Murray in the skate, essentially he would have had a clear breakaway on Mallery.
 

This was the beginning of Lyle Carnahan's defensive dominance in the EMRHL.

It was the start of the Frosty Collins Dynasty in goal.

We finally see AK's name on the trophy for Tuesdays.

New guy Mike scored the GW in OT on Frosty in the Semi Finals.

Terry O'Leary was subbing for Garrett.

Gardner goes on a tear winning titles over the next calendar year.

One was involved with a worker's comp issue, and his name could not even appear on the website anywhere.

So Dennis took his best six skaters and won it all.

This was Phil's only title so far, and he still talks about it to this day.

George LB appears in the picture, but we think he was subbing for Wayne.

We think this was Woody's only Saturday Championship.

Muppets win.. the team that was imploding by the end of the season takes the Higgy upgrade and wins it all. Surette looks like a genius for sandbagging for 4 months.

This was the beginning of the end for multiple upgrades.

If we remember right, Frank and Koz missed the semi final game because of a fight with Woody and Morrison.

The Anaconda gets his first EMRHL title, as does Wrench.

Three "Hotties" in the stands were going to flash us all if the Llamas won, but at the last seconds they all chickened out. Wrench still hasn't seen any titties.

How good did Rizzo have to be to win this thing with Jake and Shane on the team.

Oh look, a Tuna sighting too.

Things just go down hill for the league from this point on.

And what is with all these Hurley titles ?

Whole team bitches about getting a rookie goaltender (c'mon, Tkachuk bitch?) and he comes up huge in the finals against his old mates the Steelers. Finals were a smokeshow.

Luis is still the resident illegal alien on Tuesday nights.

Looks like Baker made this playoff game.

Frank Pellegrini was added in the final week, as Exxon's IceCats had some players that stopped showing up late in the season.

The Moose, last seed, make it to the finals against the Icecats. Joe K. can't make the final game so JJ subs in and scores something like 5 goals. Game goes to OT where BSP beats Ken Tarr on a breakaway to win it.

Joe K. makes his EMRMHL Tuesday debut.  Cone gets his first cup.

Numerous player moves in this season if we recall correctly.

The Dark Ages of Eric Koz begin.

We think this was the Championship Game against the Titans that went DEEP into OT, with Evans and Rob Kelly going save for save. Both teams were short guys, so the extra 14 minutes or so of Sudden Death had everyone playing and everyone exhausted at the end.

Luis' Titans cap off an amazing stretch run of the season by winning something like 8 of their last nine games by getting to the finals against Dennis' Bullies team. Huge back and forth game, ending up in what might be close to the longest overtime in EMRHL history. Kelly and Evans made some huge stops, Gilliespie and Moose both hit posts, and finally I think Dennis himself was able to put one in after about 16 minutes of overtime. Probably one of the best games ever in Saugus.

I'm not sure why, but we think we see Stokey in this Championship picture.

Puffin Dragons 7/23/02 - Tues
Eric Higgins, Jay Ryan, Todd Mogielnicki, Matt Belair, Joe Crowley, Mike Strauss, Doug Danoff, Jim Griffin, John Nunes - G

Due to a scheduling conflict with those guys, they had to play three games on the final day of the playoffs, and won all three.

Nunes of course was hurt, so we think Paul Swenson subbed in for them.

Dan Leveillee won the title in his only season playing goalie full time.

Once again, when you see Rich Sarro's name, you see Dave Gardner's name.

This was our longest ever season to this point, running from May to September.

John White kept picking Bill St. Pierre, though Billy hated it.

Keith Evans picks up his first EMRHL title, after breaking his finger in the first game of the first Tuesday season.

We also see J Lo's name on this team.

We think Jay Fraser was the captain of this team.

Rich Sarro couldn't make the finals, leaving the team with five skaters.

In a twist, Dan St. Pierre subbed in for Chris Spencer in the final playoff games.

This was the first season with the five new sets of Beverly Roller Hockey uniforms by Force Sports. We used the purple set of jerseys into 2007.

James "Bus" Carter finally gets his name on the trophy, being one of the only players left from the outside days that never won it.

Chris Spencer subbed in for St. Pierre in the final playoff games.

The finals had to be postponed a couple of times due to rain and bad weather. It was late in October, and the 25th was the last chance to finish the season outside, or the final playoff games would have been played inside at Hockeytown.

It turned out to be the last game every played at the Cage in Beverly, and it was freezing outside. The scorekeepers sat in a running truck the whole night with the wire sticking out the window.

Steve Burdick, one of the first non-original members gets his name on the trophy.

Zac Macaro won a faceoff in the final minute, and raced past a frozen Jay Fraser and scored into the empty net to seal the title game. Eric Higgins was away in Las Vegas, and the Sabres got NO SUB for him, yet still won.

Whalers  6/9/99
Dave Belisle, Tim Lewis, George Dixon, Tom Beaulieau, Terry Andress,
Artie Atkinson - G

This was the first ever season. All games were played on Wednesday nights OUTSIDE at the "Cage" in Beverly by the water. The season's were only six games long, then one week playoffs. There were four teams of six skaters back in those days. Trades were made nearly on a weekly basis.

Artie was around 51 years old and was the winning goaltender. One player was added to the team late in the season but never showed up, so his name does not appear.

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