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J U N I O R     S U R V E I L L A N C E - March 29, 2007 Sore Losers Check out this blurb about a WHL playoff game: “The series opener produced 18 powerplays -- nine for each club -- though most of the infractions were obstruction-related. But the Cranbrook Rec Plex could have used famed boxing announcer Michael Buffer to set the stage for a series of late bouts in Game 2. First it was Hitmen power forward Brodie Dupont trying in vain to draw Kootenay's Steve DaSilva into a fight. After Dupont was sent to the showers, everyone in the building knew what was coming next as Kootenay enforcer Luke Wiens lined up against the 6-ft. 7-in. Gillen. That scrap ended before it started when the linesmen jumped in immediately after seeing tape on Gillen's hand. "I heard the ref saying something but I don't know what it was," the behemoth blueliner said. "Then the linesmen jumped in there and then I clued in to what they were doing. My thumb was bothering me a little bit and I had (the tape) on just as a precaution. But it was legal. The refs might not have looked at it properly." Gillen wasn't too happy the dance ended prematurely. "It was pretty frustrating," he said. "I was looking forward to that. It kind of sets the tone for the next game.." (end of excerpt) We’ve all seen this routine a thousand times before. Once the outcome of the game is obvious……it’s fight time. The sore losers want revenge on the winners (who would also be sore losers if the score was reversed. What if the rest of the real world handled their defeats the same way. Just think: Criminal lawyers would start thumping out the prosecution when the verdict is declared. Olympic swimmers will try and drown the gold medal winner just seconds after the race. Spelling bee champions will get jumped by an opponent and beaten with a dictionary. Academy Awards finalists will jump up on stage and throttle the just named winner. Losing jockey’s will jump from their saddle and knock the winning rider to the turf. The world chess champion will have the playing board and chess pieces dumped on his lap. Miss Universe will barely get her crown on when she will be jumped by the first runner up and dragged around the stage by her hair. Now that I think of it, maybe junior hockey is on to something here. Send your story to hockspy@hotmail.com and we will pass them on to our readers in a future installment of Junior Hockey Surveillance.

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