Charlotte Ice Cats 6th Annual Holiday Invitational, 2004
Charlotte, NC
December 3-5, 2004

The Lady Thrashers are the Champions of the 2004 Charlotte Ice Cats 6th Annual Holiday Invitational

Record: 5-0
Game 1 vs. Charleston Lady Rays: 7-1 W
Game 2 vs. Triad Thunder: 4-0 W
Game 3 vs. Charlotte Ice Cats: 5-1 W
Game 4 vs. Raleigh Trailblazers: 4-1 W
Championship Game vs. Charlotte Ice Cats: 7-2 W

On-Ice Highlights:
• Dominating all of the games with only 8 skaters and a goalie
• Goals scored by everyone
• Bev's shutout and 1.00 GAA
• 27 goals in 5 games
• Andi's hat trick in the Charleston game
• Ashley's hat trick in the Championship game
• Laura's end-to-end goal in the Charleston game
• Ann's 3-on-5 shorthanded goal
• Doubleshift Debbie the Scoring Machine!

On-Ice Lowlights:
• The injury bug (Taby, Kat, Laura, Ann)
• Slash (ask someone for a demonstration)

Off-Ice Highlights:
• Takeout dinner in the hotel lobby on Saturday night, plus ice cream
• Heather's "Miracle Drug" that saved Taby

Off-Ice Lowlight:
• The 1-hour standstill traffic jam on the way home (engines off, people walking around the interstate)

Starbucks Visit? No (there was 24-hour coffee in the hotel lobby)

Stuckey's Pecan Log Roll of Honor (high scorer):
Debbie (7G, 6A)

The Goon Award: Heather (13 PIM)

The Tough Guy Award: Taby, for playing with broken ribs

Quote of the Tournament: "You'd better hurry! The Zamboni guy is doing 60 miles per hour out there!" - Bev, before the start of the first game, after Laura and Taby finally arrived with about 15 minutes to spare

Thanks go to Coach Jeff Dinkel and Equipment Manager Rachel "Gopher" Dinkel for helping out on the bench.