Drat! What a crap-tastic week! 3-3 overall, just 1-2 in teasers, dropping the season totals to 21-20 in teasers, 57-25 overall. The stupid Raiders won again…grr! And then the Viqueens scored some points messing up my under play with them and the Fins. Oh well, one more week to go before thee playoffs. Warning! Beware of meaning less games with teams sitting...
TEXAS TOAST! COMETS COMEBACK STUNS STARS by Jay Flemma, Special to Facewash Magazine UTICA, NY – This was a different kind of win for the Comets. Sure it was another one goal win, another Cardiac Comets high-wire act, but this win was a different arrow in the quiver. This was the comeback win – and the Comets are going to need to know how to win those...
As usual, Ernesto the Prediction Iguana is hitting his stride at the right time! He had another 5-1 overall 2-1 in teasers week to lift the season totals to 54-22 overall, 20-18 in teasers! We’ve also done well with the Cabrera family as an adopted good luck charm, so while we won’t let Durban the Rhodesian Ridgeback make the picks, we’ll throw him...
Ernesto the Prediction Iguana went 4-0 in the early games, then got hosed by the Raiders, (nice going Niners), and the Seahawks, (why did he pick Sanchez??). But he rallied late to salvage a 2-2 week in teasers, 6-2 overall to bring the season totals to 49-21 overall, 18-17 in teasers. Here’s the picks for next week. And just like playoff teams turn it up in...
We finally started rolling! Ernesto the Prediction Iguana came back from vacation sizzling hot! 7-1 overall, 3-1 in teasers and perfect 6-0 on the official picks – that’s what I’ve been waiting for! Now the season totals top .500 in teasers for the first time this year (16-15) while the overall stats swell to 43-19. Let’s keep it rolling! Here...
by Jay Flemma, Special to Facewash Magazine UTICA, NY – It was full-throated. It was sustained. It was almost defiant, (especially when aimed at Syracuse). And it had to be downright surreal being on the other team and skating in the middle of it. “U! TI! CA!” “U! TI! CA!” “U! TI! CA!” It’s bad enough when you’re...
We went 2-1 in teasers, 5-1 overall last week, improving the season totals to 36-18 overall, 13-14 in teasers. Meanwhile, Ernesto is back from vacation. The cats played their usual .500 ball in his absence, but now it’s time to find that extra gear as we push towards the playoffs. Here are this week’s winners…go crush your bookie! NFC DIVISIONAL...
They Stepped Into the Freezer – Syracuse Crunch and Utica Comets Play Largest Indoor Hockey Game in Continental History By Jay Flemma, Special to Facewash Magazine SYRACUSE, NY – Syracuse Crunch owner Howard Dolgon set out to prove a point and he did – upstate New York is a national hockey epicenter. 30,715 ardent hockey fans braved the aftermath of...
Jazz the Cat went 2-1 in teasers last week, 5-1 overall, raising the season stats to 11-13 in teasers, 31-17 overall. This week, meet the world’s smartest cat, Barstow. Owned by uber-whiz-kid wunderkind Ian Clarke, Barstow has impressive sense of time. In the pic above he knows it’s 2:58 p.m. and in two minutes the feeder will release the last food of the...
Fans Ask “Is it our Time?” as Plucky Comets Steal Another win By Jay Flemma, Special to Facewash Magazine UTICA, NY – This was game the fans had been waiting for. This was the moment of truth: that gut-check, dig-deep, “go out there and take it” win that eluded local teams for forty-five years. This was the kind of game four and a half...
Faith the Cat went 1-1, 2-2 so far in her picks. (She has the Eagles and the over tonight, so we’ll recalculate the stats next week, but right now we stand 25-15 overall, but only 9-11 in teasers.) This week Jazz takes his turn in the hot seat, the third of the four cats who sub in for a month while our normal animal prognosticator, Ernesto the Prediction...
Comets Regain Top Record in AHL Behind Fourth Markstrom Shut-out By Jay Flemma – Special to Facewash Magazine UTICA, NY – The AHL is going to have to start a peer support group for league goalies called Markstrom Anonymous or “Mark-anon.” “Hello, my name is Andy, and my team was shut-out by Jacob Markstrom.…” “Hi Andy...
For the second year in a row, Squeakers the Cat did a lousy job of picking the games while our normal guy, Ernesto the Prediction Iguana, is on vacation. Squeakers went 4-2 – barely, thanks Steelers for helping save us from the first winless teaser week in AWITP history – and she went only 1-2 in teasers. I suppose it’s not her fault…I mean...
Trick and Treat – Senators Halt Streaks, Comets Steal Point By Jay Flemma – Special to Facewash Magazine UTICA, NY – Were there tricks or were there treats at the Utica Aud last night? I’m afraid it’s both. The Utica Comets saw two streaks halted by the Binghamton Senators 4-3 in overtime, yet still stole a point from their division...
Golden Goose Eggs – Utica Goalie Markstrom Seeks AHL Shutout Streak Record By Jay Flemma – Special to Facewash Magazine UTICA, NY – When the foghorn blared for the last time Saturday night at the Utica Aud, the ovation that rocked the arena from the basement to the rafters was more than just a tribute, it was an acknowledgement. The word had spread...