Hockey Pool 2005
With the return of hockey comes the age old Canadian tradition of the office hockey pool. This will be the second annual pool here at Zymeta and everyone is looking to unseat Dean who come out of nowhere last year and stole the title. With respect to this year’s pool, here are some predictions that I’ll pull up next June and have a laugh at how wrong I was.
Mike has the most pool experience, so much so that he was twice champion at his previous job. But that overconfidence has hurt him in the past and I expect a poor showing. Not as poor, though, as the four people who missed the staff meeting and had their selections done at random (you all know who you are). Charles will do well despite the fact that it seems like half his picks are over the age of forty. Dean will come in second and though he won’t say anything, he’ll be grumbling about it all summer. I suspect a top five finish for my superior picks; I would have come in first but it’s inevidable that at least two of my players will catch an edge, do a triple cow-sow and land on their head only to be run over by the rest of the their team as they cross the blue line on a rush. Sports fanatic Bill will also be in the top five… until the last couple weeks when he’ll drop down a couple spots. Of course Bill’s list is rather random so he might drop more than a few spots. And in spite of us all, the girl from the UK will take first place and we’ll not hear the end of it for all of 2006.
The predictions for everyone else are rather shady. The jury’s out and the eight-ball says to try again. I think that’s a sign that they should just give up now while they have their honour intact.
Wed, 28 Sep 2005 22:49 Posted in General
