At the Break: Maroons Like Direction Both Teams Are Taking

 

The fortunes of both the D2 and C3 Maroons are looking good at the holiday break in the 2011-2012 season.  Real good, as a matter of fact.  While it's still plenty early to start talking playoffs, both teams are well in the hunt and hanging on to a playoff spot. Both teams are featuring stars in the top 10 in their divisions,  and both teams have division-leading goalies.  The C3 Maroons are tied with 4 other teams at the break with a 4 - 3 record.  The D2 gang is posting a 5 - 2 record at the break.

 

Among the C3 Maroons, with 7 goals on the season already, Tom "The Example" Lanz is second in the league. Jonathon "Mr. Coffee" Filter (only let's in the sweet taste of victory and keeps out the bitter taste of defeat) is first among C3 goalies with a gaudy .926 save percentage.  In D2 action, "It's All Rhett" Falkner with an 11 goal season to date (including two games with hat tricks).  Both the D2 goalies are over .900 save percent - regular goalie Dan Ginter with a .912 save percentage, supported by new found discovery Chuck Anderson as back up goalie with a respectable .906.   The D2 defense leads the league in fewest shots allowed, with a paltry 133 shots as of the break!

 

Competition in both C3 and D2 levels is very strong.  Coming out of the break, the D2 team will be playing the top three teams in the division. The road is no easier for the C3 Maroons, who have the F'ing Saints and the notorious Puck Hounds to do battle with as well.  Stay tuned...next update will be pre-playoffs.

 

 

 

D2 Maroons Hoist Cup in 2011 AHA Fall Tourney !

A team of Maroons and a supporting cast of pals along with a few new Maroons recruits, resulted in a Maroons D2 tourney championship for the first time ever in the history of the AHA and the Maroons. This was the first year for D2 involvement in the tourney, which included D2 league champion runner ups Fighting Loons and up-and-comers Flying Hellfish and the star-gazing if not uniquelly named Wolf-Rayetes. Congrats to ALL in the tourney, it was a fun run and we look forward to meeting our worthy opponents on the ice again in the 2011-2012 regular season.

 

 

 

Jacobs, Trynos, Baird, Jensen, Kurkowsi and friends raise

the victory banner and hoist the cup as AHA Fall Tourney Champions.

 

                   

DID YOU KNOW...(More Maroons History)
During the 1927/1928 season, the Maroons picked up Hooley Smith who had the bizarre tendency of chewing tobacco when he played and liked to spit at the face of goalies before he shot the puck. 

The team name - "Maroons" - was a nickname given the team by the Montreal media as a result of the team colors and was never the official name of the team.  The simplistic "M" worn on the sweaters stood for "Montreal". 

The first goal tender in hockey history to wear a mask was Clint Benedict of the Montreal Maroons, in January, 1930.  After facing intense ridicule, Clint dumped the mask after three games and never wore a mask again.
 

The longest hockey game in history was played by the Maroons (NO, not the D1 or D2 squads). On March 24, 1936, the Detroit Red Wings played the Montreal Maroons in the semifinal round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. In the first game of the series, the score was tied at zero leading into overtime. The teams had to play for a whopping six overtimes!
Their game lasted over 176 minutes, almost three times a regulation hockey game. It finally ended when Detroit's Mud Bruneteau scored the game's only goal in the 177th minute, making the Maroons participants in one of the five longest games in sports history and the longest hockey game in NHL history.