Senior Hockey
Senior A Cocktail League
The WSC Sr. A team competes in what might be the top men’s Sr. A travel league in the eastern United States known affectionately to it’s members as “The Cocktail League”. The Cocktail League was founded in 1960 and each year it’s members compete for the 43 year old league Cup, The Farrington Cup. Currently the cocktail league is made up of four (4) teams. Competing with WSC are Beacon Hill Club (Summit, NJ), Boston Hockey Club and the New York City Lumberjacks. League play consists of home/home series with each team with the play-offs in the Spring. The play-offs are a one game final with the first place team during the regular season hosting the second place team. League games are competitive, hard hitting, and clean. Since only the first and second place teams advance to the finals the regular season games are extremely competitive as they all count. New York City is the reigning league champion and has held this title since 2001. WSC won the championship in 2000.
Recent
Champions
2000
Wissahickon
2001 New York City
2002 New York City
2003 New York City
2004 New York City
2005 New York City
2006 New York City
Senior A Cocktail League Game Schedule/Results (last update Apr. 29, 2006, changes highlighted in blue text)
Day |
Date |
Time |
Teams |
Rink |
Result |
Sat |
Dec 3 |
7 pm |
WSC vs. NYC |
NYC |
5 - 7 |
Sat |
Dec 10 |
4 pm |
Beacon Hill vs. WSC |
WSC |
1 - 4 |
Sat |
Jan 7 |
6:30 pm |
WSC vs. Boston |
Boston |
5 - 6 |
Sat |
Jan 14 |
6:30 pm |
Beacon Hill vs. Boston |
Boston |
8 - 3 |
Sat |
Jan 21 |
7 pm |
Boston vs. NYC |
NYC |
4 - 8 |
Sat |
Jan 21 |
6 pm |
WSC vs. Beacon Hill |
BHC |
4 - 2 |
Sat |
Jan 28 |
4 pm |
NYC vs. WSC |
WSC |
6 - 2 |
Sat |
Feb 16 |
8:15 pm |
NYC vs. Beacon Hill |
BHC |
2 - 6 |
Sat |
Feb 18 |
4 pm |
Boston vs. WSC |
WSC |
4 - 7 |
Sun |
Feb 19 |
7 pm |
Boston vs. Beacon Hill |
BHC |
0 - 1 (f) |
Sun |
Feb 25 |
6:30 pm |
NYC vs. Boston |
Boston |
7 - 6 |
| Thu | Mar 2 | 7 pm | NYC vs. Beacon Hill | NYC | 2 - 7 |
| TBD | TBD | TBD | Beacon
Hill vs. NYC
Championship Game |
NYC | 3 - 6 |
Congratulations to the 2006 Cocktail League Champion New York City.
Senior A Cocktail League Standings (as of Apr. 29, 2006)
| Team | GP | W | L | T | PTS |
| NYC | 6 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| Beacon Hill | 6 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| WSC | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| Boston | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 2 |
2/25/04 The Boston Danglers - Boston Hockey Club members represent the Cocktail League in Canada at the World Pond Hockey Championships... and they WIN!
You may want to check out the article in today’s New York Times on the World Pond Hockey Championship held last weekend on Roulston Lake in Plaster Rock, New Brunswick.
It’s a very good article, and should resonate with many USHR readers, particularly those who have been lucky enough to play a lot of outdoor hockey.
Out of 80 teams entered in the tournament (most from the Maritimes), there were four teams from the United States, three from the Washington, DC area comprised of guys who skate out of the same Rockville, Maryland rink every Thursday night, and The Boston Danglers who, as it turned out, won the whole tournament. Reporter Charles McGrath refers to the Danglers as “an exceptionally smoothing-skating foursome who are really Canadians, as some locals were quick to point out.”
McGrath goes on to say that the four met while playing at Merrimack College in the early to mid-90s, and have since settled in Massachusetts. McGrath only identified one player by name. That was Cooper Naylor, who actually is not a Canadian, having been born in Mt. Kisco, NY. Naylor, today a 33-year-old teacher in the Tewksbury, Mass. public school system, was a forward who was named MVP of the ’93-94 team. Naylor went on to play in the ECHL and WCHL.
The remaining three players (these are all 4-on-4 games), who went unnamed by the Times, are:
-- Mark Goble, a former Nepean Raider who, in ’92-93, was named as a forward to the Hockey East All-Rookie Team (Maine’s Chris Ferraro and Paul Kariya were the other two forwards named to the team.)
-- Rob
Atkinson, 34, a Moncton, NB native and left
wing who playedd for a couple of years in the ECHL.
-- Mark Cornforth, 31, a Montreal-born
defenseman who went on to play six years in the IHL or AHL and, in the ’95-96
season, was called up from Providence (AHL) by the Boston Bruins. Cornforth
played six games teamed with Ray Bourque on
the Bruins blue line.
So, as you can see, these guys are not exactly fifty-somethings from the local tavern. We don’t want to spoil anyone’s fun, but perhaps this tournament might, given its growth, have to be restricted to players whose amateur status is still intact.
Any candidates who fit that bill? Right here in the Boston-area we have two ex-Hobey Baker winners and former Olympians in Scott Fusco (’86) and Lane MacDonald (’89). That’s a pretty good start. As far as we know, neither played pro… well, MacDonald played 15 games in Switzerland, but perhaps a waiver would be in order for European league players. We’d like to find a couple of others (maximum age: 40) and send them up for the tournament. Can anybody out there think of any top collegians who never played pro at any level in North America? If so, e-mail their names to information@ushr.com The team can wear the USHR.Dotcoms uniforms from the Prospects Tourney. We’ll also throw in a case of beer – one case for each player -- and transportation to the tournament. We can also offer a ride back home -- but only if the wooden replica of the Stanley Cup is riding shotgun, of course.
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