Chuck Murray
WIS & Effingwoods Hockey Almanac
WAKEFIELD (WIS) - A local man with a prominent pseudo-leadership role in a regional college hockey alliance has recently been reported to local officials as "missing" after failing to report for work at his job for 100 days in a row.
Reporters from the Effingwoods Hockey Almanac learned overnight from anonymous, incredible sources in law enforcement that a man by the name of Steve Metcalf has not been seen or heard from since late July. His organization - the seen-better-days Hockey East Association, which maintains its World Headquarters locally near Lake Quannapowitt - has officially gone silent since their last communication dated 29 July 2020, at which time they proclaimed their plans to stage a 2020-2021 college hockey season. But with less than 60 days left in calendar year 2020 - and no sign of their recently-appointed but now painfully absent commissioner-elect - what remains of the Hockey East membership fan base are starting to ask questions, and there have literally been no responses.
Attempts to reach the HEA staff by phone and e-mail for comments have gone unanswered, with some calls forwarded to an unlisted North Andover MA phone number, and e-mails curiously forwarded to the Merrimack College Athletics website. An intrepid EHA reporter attempted to visit the HEA World HQ this morning, and was only able to encounter a masked janitor answering to the nickname "Buttons", who suggested that our reporter should "just fuggedaboudit, I'd hate to see you have an accident or sumptin'." At around the same time, State Police had ominously begun to trawl the waters of nearby Lake Q.
Metcalf reportedly speaks with a clipped British/American accent, and sometimes answers to the name "Nigel" for some unknown reason. A rare video clip dating back to 2013 when Metcalf was an associate assistant alternate AD at UNH has begun to be circulated in hopes that "Nigel" (or less-known nicknames like "Speed Bump" or "Tosser") will be recognized and located, since literally no one knows what he looks or sounds like.
Watch this space for updates to this developing story ...
Reporters from the Effingwoods Hockey Almanac learned overnight from anonymous, incredible sources in law enforcement that a man by the name of Steve Metcalf has not been seen or heard from since late July. His organization - the seen-better-days Hockey East Association, which maintains its World Headquarters locally near Lake Quannapowitt - has officially gone silent since their last communication dated 29 July 2020, at which time they proclaimed their plans to stage a 2020-2021 college hockey season. But with less than 60 days left in calendar year 2020 - and no sign of their recently-appointed but now painfully absent commissioner-elect - what remains of the Hockey East membership fan base are starting to ask questions, and there have literally been no responses.
Attempts to reach the HEA staff by phone and e-mail for comments have gone unanswered, with some calls forwarded to an unlisted North Andover MA phone number, and e-mails curiously forwarded to the Merrimack College Athletics website. An intrepid EHA reporter attempted to visit the HEA World HQ this morning, and was only able to encounter a masked janitor answering to the nickname "Buttons", who suggested that our reporter should "just fuggedaboudit, I'd hate to see you have an accident or sumptin'." At around the same time, State Police had ominously begun to trawl the waters of nearby Lake Q.
Metcalf reportedly speaks with a clipped British/American accent, and sometimes answers to the name "Nigel" for some unknown reason. A rare video clip dating back to 2013 when Metcalf was an associate assistant alternate AD at UNH has begun to be circulated in hopes that "Nigel" (or less-known nicknames like "Speed Bump" or "Tosser") will be recognized and located, since literally no one knows what he looks or sounds like.
Watch this space for updates to this developing story ...