Enjoy this feature from our special correspondent:

Guy LeDouche – Fonthill Ruffle
The Dain City Dusters dropped a tough 4-3 decision to the previously winless Atlas Steelers Wednesday night.  There was only a few bright spots for the Dusters and one was the play from the 2nd line wingers Kelly Jones and Dave Gomez who combined for 2 of the 3 Dusters goals. This is a present surprise as last year they combined for 7 goals in a unfortunately shortened season due to Covid-19.  I was able to catch up with Dave in the parking lot after to discuss what he thought of tonight’s game.

Dave, given the slow starts the Dusters have produced on the ice the first 2 weeks of the season, How did it feel to get the first goal to give the team some momentum heading in to the 3rd period?

“It felt pretty damn good and quite unexpected.  No one was surprised more than me. As you know, goals from me can be quite rare. Sort of like a lunar eclipse – kinda fun to watch but you’re not quite sure how it happens. I think my new $50 Sherwood from Costco had something to do with it. I think there’s a few more goals in that twig.”

With the hot start to your season do you think you can keep the pace up and help lead the Dusters to the King Street Cup Championship Game?

“Yes I believe I can. It would be an honour to be a Duster at the head of the Victory Parade marching down King Street to the delight of all the citizens in their scooters.”

Now this is just a rumor that I heard after the game but can you please confirm that with the loss you now have to buy Scotty “2time” MacLeod 2 dozen donuts and a take 10 from Tims for the boys back at the precinct?

“It was actually 3 dozen but I might’ve doused his apple fritters with pepper spray.”

One last question and ill let you get back to drinking your OV. What do the Dusters need to change whether its is their pregame routine, game prep or off ice condition to get off to a better 1st period next week vs the 2-0 Merritt Islanders.

“Well we could certainly use some more spark in the 1st. Should I bring a taser to the next game?” 
That would certainly be a wake up call to some of the boys on the bench.

Thank you once again for your time and good luck with the rest of the season. 

A new feature of the WNHL Season is going to be the addition of the Game of the Month. This will be a monthly game that will be filmed and edited with bench interviews from the newly formed WNHL Video Production Team. Each team will be featured twice this season to see their game on the WNHL Youtube Channel (Click here to Subscribe) and finally become famous. As with most WNHL Events we are looking to help the community. Each team will select a charity of their choosing and raise money leading up to the Game of the Month. The team that wins the Game of the Month will receive the collected money from both teams for their respective charity. It should be a great addition to the WNHL Season and a fantastic chance for people to raise money, play hockey and give back.

Here is the Game of the Month Schedule for the 2020-2021 Season.

Wednesday October 28^th – Dusters vs Kings

Wednesday November 25^th – Steelers vs Tunnelers

Wednesday December 23^rd – Islanders vs Kings

Wednesday January 20^th – Legends vs Dusters

Wednesday February 10^th – Islanders vs Tunnelers

Wednesday March 17^th – Steelers vs Legends

Townline Tunnelers

Last but not least in our season previews brings us the Townline Tunnelers led by GM Craig “Shieko” Laro.  The balls of destiny bounced off Laro before landing on Warden, leaving Laro with the bluest of draft balls.  Can Laro build the Tunnelers up to a team worthy of that logo or will they stink worse than the actual Townline Tunnel?  Let’s dig in. (get it?)

In the first three rounds the Tunnlers found themselves with Romance, Nun, and Woods which are the three keywords in my pornhub searches.  It’s hard to argue with big Lance Romance as your first round pick.  Big body, scores goals, kills Paco’s.  Oddly enough he uses the same size stick as Chris “Superbaked” Woods in spite of the four foot height differential.

Picking up Dino “Noni” Maddelina was a solid move for the Tunnelers as brings a lot of top end skill as well as being a absolute beauty in the room.  The Tunnelers stuck by their game plan of bringing in new and fresh faces and picked up Neil “What Brother” Bhan, John “We’ve already talked about dudes with two first names” Harvey and Ben “Alliteration” Brown.  All three players coming of strong if not quiet rookie season in the WNHL and look to take that next step in their development.

As we move into the championship rounds, Laro made some strong moves to shore up the third line.  Bringing in guys that don’t need a nickname like Spins, and Grant Vash. Grant Vash is the WNHL version of Phil Kessel. Not well liked, eats a ton of hot dogs, and does nothing but score goals. That’s a triforce worthy of the Legend of Zelda. In the last two rounds, Laro stuck with longtime Tunneler Kenny “Lemiux” Oost, who saw his breakout season happen on the Tunnelers and TJ “Opposite of a closer” Hatton. Hatton can close deals all over Welland but put him on the ice and…

Will 2020 be the years the Tunnelers rise up and return to the top of the standings in the WNHL? Will Laro’s solid but quiet leadership inspire this group of turds, or will he need to bring in Torts to help sort his team out. The Tunnelers have the best logo in the game, now just need the team to match it.

The Tunnelers quest for the King Street Cup beings October 7th (TONIGHT!) against the Crown Room Kings.