Starting this Thursday, we will be releasing a limited series weekly web comic packed with all the hacking, hewing and hilarity you have come to love from our kilted heroes.
Each weekly release of the web comic will act as a prequel leading up to the premiere of the next Scottish Ninjas animated short!
So be sure to visit Scottish Ninjas.com each Thursday to catch the latest issue!
As you may remember, Scottish Ninjas co-creator, Rob Mullin went to a pond hockey tournament with his Scottish Ninjas hockey team. You can read the archived post here.
USA Hockey Magazine, contacted Rob recently to interview him for an article about the Scottish Ninjas pond hockey team, it’s origins with the Scottish Ninjas the cartoon, and the brilliant idea of playing pond hockey in kilts! Read all about it HERE!
Rob in Official Team Scottish Ninja Wear
So it was a (mostly) chilly weekend for one of your humble Scottish Ninjas creators as Rob attended the 2011 Labatt Blue/USA hockey Pond Hockey Championships in Eagle River Wisconsin. 250 teams from 4 countries play a total of 480 games from Friday till Sunday… I wish I had a stat on how much Labatt’s Blue was consumed; but each game nets you a free case of beer so that’s almost 6,000 cans of victory beer alone!
This was the fourth year for Rob’s team in the novice division; this time in the spirit of the Scottish Ninjas we decided to rock a jersey with a modified Scottish Ninjas logo (the lads are wielding hockey sticks instead of swords) and go…. yes folks… kilted!
We stayed at the Eagle Waters resort again with our local Seattle buddies (who play for Eagle Waters Resort). They also sported kilts at various events throughout the weekend. However without the Kilt acquiring powers of John “Doc” Hixon and Troy Buduan we would have been freezing our nuts off (literally). We also can’t miss the rest of the contingent of players, party-ers and honorary Scottish Ninjas… Al, Jeff W, Jeff B, Capt Purple, Darryl, Tom, Marchand “Shawni” , Keri and Wisconsin Dave; it wouldn’t have been the same without ’em!
For you fashionistas… We were predominantly wearing Utilikilts, but Rob’s traditional family kilt made an appearance and even one Sportkilt (for the lovely Andrea) which had all the lads swooning! We’re happy to report that all of em stood up to the beating as did the custom skin tone socks.
l-r (back) Dave Burke, Dustin Swisstack, Roger DiFilipo, Rob Mullin (front) Andrea Dasovich, "Jersey" Dave Miller and Dan Lund.
The Ninjas played three games and were able to put one win on the board against “PBR Me”. We think we held our own and made it challenging for our losses to “Hooters” and “Drunk and Looking to Score” the team that eventually won the whole novice division.
During the weekend we received a ton of great feed back ranging from thumbs up to “awesome dude!” to “awww..man… we were gonna wear kilts!”. Team members were stopped countless times to pose for photos with people and even a few videos…
Thankfully the up-kilt videos were kept to a minimum as no one really asked if we were regimental. Which stung… just a little.
We also still made it out Sunday afternoon for our annual post event Seattle team pickup game (with a tip o’ the hat to the spirit of “Big Earl”), that was a bit of a slush-fest due to the record high temp of 44 degrees (6 degrees C).
Experience being a Scottish Ninja pond hockey player for yourself thanks to Jersey Dave for his amazing Hockey Helmet Cam… since the Kilt-Cam footage was a bit much (even for us!)
Scottish Ninja – Ice Lagers vs. PBR Me
Be sure to tune into Sunday Feb 20th for NBC for the Hockey Weekend Across America broadcast as they will be showing two NHL hockey games and a special segment about the Pond Hockey Championships. Who knows… if you’re lucky you may even catch a glimpse of a Scottish Ninja!
Needless to say it was a fantastic weekend of hockey and we look forward to the Ninjas and the rest of the gang returning to that frozen lake in 2012. In the mean time… enjoy some more photos from the weekend.
Scottish Ninjas and Hooters post game
Rob looking to score on the team "drunk and looking to score"
Jeff, Al, Dan and Rob pose for photos while having some Labatt's Blue
Rob Mullin, John "Doc" Hixon and Jeff Bathke sport the Utilikilts on the frozen pond
Scottish Ninjas posing with some fellow hockey players at the event
Scottish Ninjas with Drunk and looking to score post game
Dan and Roger take the puck up the ice
Our interview for The Noob News podcast is currently online…a day early! Click the link below to listen to it. We are the “main event” which takes place about halfway in the podcast.
Many thanks to The Noob News for having us on their program!
