Creepy Gilmore - the pre golf days

On the left is a picture of Creepy Gilmore toiling for the Tijuana Cockroaches of the Mexican Senor B league. His rise to fame in Mexican hockey was not the typical one. His love for hockey, or el-shooto as they say in Mexico, got him a job as stick-boy for the Cabo San Lucas Crack Whores. Then on the back half of a '98 February Spring Break home and home with the Tijuana Cockroaches the Roach goalie passed out from a lack of Tequila. Stick-boy got the call and saved the game for the Roaches using Condo Time Share promotional materials as goal pads and a big Marlin fishing pole for a goal stick. The rest as they say is el-history.

A brief cronology of his storied playing career follows:

• Feb '98 - Got smuggled back to Tijuana in the cargo compartment of the team Cockroaches' bus. Upon arrival, where the tequila was significantly cheaper, kept the job as the back-up goaltender for 1 1/2 seasons.
• Dec '99 - El-coacho noticed he could skate backwards, so got the call to try-out on the blue line in the place of 'Salsa' Jim Chipotle, who had suddenly come down with a nasty case of syphillis. (He claims it was something he ate, but we all know better.) Due to Creepy's calming force on the blue-line, he stayed there for the next 3 years.
• Oct '01 - Mexican Senor B league started tracking goals-on-own-net. Creepy finally started getting mentioned in the local sports pages. By the end of the season he had won the El-Bonehead trophy for scoring the most goals on his own net (54). Most were tip-ins from El-Great-One, also pictured above.
• Mar '02 - Finally got his cup of coffee in the Mexican Elite League (MEL), getting the call up to the Chihuahua Pitbulls for a lengthy playoff run. On the back of Creepy Gilmore, the team made it all the way to the finals that year only to lose a heartbreaker in Game 6 to the Cozumel Gringos.
• Won the MEL cup in the 02-03 season with the Pitbulls. Went on to also win the Central America Ice Hockey title against the Nicaragua Smugglers.
• Feb '07 - Retired from el-shooto after a long and distinguished career (as long as you don't count the last 3 campaigns, which we don't want to even mention)
• He can now be found patrolling the beaches of Playa Del Carmen, selling bogus watches to unsuspecting Alberta tourists.
• Due to be inducted to the Mexican El-Shooto Hall of Fame on October 28, 2008 on his 32 birthday.

Happy Birthday Barry. Glad to see you made it home from the greatest city in the world.

(this post was inspired by the many great Oiler's tales by Lowetide)