PUCK HOGS LOCAL 242 FANTASY HOCKEY
"Affinity for Trash Talk and Commitment to Stupidity More Impressive than your Fantasy Skills"
LATEST NEWS
- Summer, 2012: we are retooling and resetting for the summer in anticipation of our 11th season. Our goal is 60 teams (that's right, 60 teams!) and introducing the 4th division named after Syracuse Bulldog, Gilmore Tuttle ("I'll straighten you out, you little prick").
- The League message board (or see "Forum" link to the left) is full of rants and raves and league development discussion.
- If you are new, poke around the site and if you "get it", you'll want in post haste. Register on the message board and say hello and we'll get you on board next season. See the Contact Us (or "Contact Us" link to left) to reach the commish. He'll be happy to tell you more.
- Rookie Krazy Kopitarians went all the way to 2011-12 Bucket glory and showed the veterans that he is the real deal.
- Puckapalooza 2011 (Hartford) score sheet and pics are up. Come see Puck Hogs hanging with The Zambonis and a Hanson Brother.
Puck Hogs Local 242 - A Brief History
The PHL242 began during the ’01-’02 season as a way for hockey nuts to follow their favorite sport, talk loads of smack, horse trade players, and have tons of fun. Several of the managers that started the PHL242 migrated over from the salary cap based Small World Fantasy Hockey.
PHL242 is a fantasy hockey league that would make Don Cherry proud. That first season the league was made up of 8 teams and grew to 15 teams (’02-’03) then 19 teams (’03-’04). We had an “All Star Weekender” during these expansion years involving lots of hockey, beer, and salty snack foods. We’re all still trying to figure out what happened in the ’04-'05 season. Settling in at a continual 20 teams following the lockout, we had our first east coast league event, dubbed "Puckapalooza ", in Philadelphia in '05-'06. This saw Puck Hogs flying cross-country for mere hours of fun, showing true hockey dedication or what we like to call a "commitment to stupidity". The PHL242 now brings together managers from all over the U.S. and Canada. We followed up with later Puckapaloozas in Toronto, Las Vegas, Seattle, and Hartford. These included the first ever PHL242 live drafts which was the pinnacle of fantasy hockey fun, rocking out with Dave from The Zambonis at their coldest ever gig, and meeting none other than Steve Carlson/Steve Hanson AKA "I'm listening to the fucking song!" at a hotel bar. 2011-12 saw the league expanding to 41 teams and tripling it's lady puck hog contigent (up to 3, but you knew that).
The PHL242 values participation, smack talk, love of hockey, and participation (did we already mention that?) We actually don’t care if you are a good fantasy hockey player, only if you drop by with the occasional youtube clip of your favorite Daniel Carcillo meltdown, NHL ice girl scouting efforts, or some ridiculous video non-hockey related video. Show up at a league event and you are made. And we like to run a fair, participatory, and ever evolving league and all that stuff.
