'King Carlo' Bossio (R), battles Junior Gelinas (L), in the semi-finals of the 2026 Syracuse Table Hockey Tournament. The tourney featured players from New York City, Chicago, Connecticut, Pittsburgh, Montreal, and the Syracuse league, competing in round robin play in two seeded groups. Bossio and Pat Cote topped the groups with both advancing through the A bracket playoffs to the final series, which was a classic. In the B bracket playoffs, Dan Lord bested Anthony Sciacca in two games. Brian Lalik topped the C bracket, sweeping Gavin Dressing in two as well. 

 

In that classic A final, Cote took the first two games but Carlo came storming back, winning the next two to set up a deciding game five. Bossio held a 3-1 lead with less than two minutes remaining but Cote tallied the next two, tying the game with just 14 seconds left. Carlo launched into attack with Cote turning him back and clearing the puck with two seconds to go but almost unbelievably, it ricocheted off the back boards behind Carlo's net straight to his center, and with the last shot of the tournament, with less than a second on the clock, Bossio slapped it into the net, seizing the championship! Click here to watch the frantic final few minutes of that game.