SNOOPY UPDATE

By Richard Cranium

The Ice Oasis Polars 45’s had a very successful beer outing on Thursday after their last game.

Pictured here is the happy crew.


There is always a story within a story and this one is no exception. For those of you that are too young or too nervous to participate, this writer recommends that you give it a try after you hit the 40 year mark.

In the last game, the “hat line” of Charlie Tickner, Bill Murray and Otter David Warner put on a stellar performance.



They played most of the game in the other team’s end pressuring the D with relentless forechecking. Right winger Tickner scored two goals for the Polars. And that is where the story within a story begins. One of the nice things about playing in this kind of tournament is the chance to meet new people. Sometimes you just never know who you will meet or in this case play with.

“When the game started, I found myself centering two different lines since Rex Mann was late in arriving,” said Otter Warner, “after the second or third shift, I had Tickner on right and Murray on the left. We were three out of the four oldest players on the team but we played like kids that had a lot of heart and desire.”

What Warner and Murray didn’t know is that they were playing with a World champion and an Olympic medalist. Tickner in 1978 was the World’s men figure skating champion. He was the USA number one men’s champion for four years 1977 to 1980 and won a bronze Olympic medal in 1980 at Lake Placid.

Here are Tickner’s stats:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Tickner

Charles Tickner (born November 13, 1953 in Lafayette, CA) is an American figure skater who won the gold medal at the 1978 World Figure Skating Championships, skating to music from Georges Bizet's Carmen and Jules Massenet's Le Cid (opera) for his long program. He also won the bronze medal at the 1980 Winter Olympics and the 1980 World Championships.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpKf5m0tCoM


“I had no idea that Charlie came up through the figure skating ranks,” Warner said after the game, “I could see he could skate well and he did score three times in the three games we played. He was real competitive out there.”

When asked on the phone what the similarities and differences were in figure skating and hockey Tickner said, “well, in both sports you get yelled at on and off the ice but in figure skating nobody tries to whack you with a stick when you are on the ice, they wait until you are off the ice to do that!”