I had an awesome drive home after last night's game. It was cold and there was a healthy wind hammering a fair bit of snow horizontally across Highway 85 as I drove back to KW from Elmira. It felt like someone had sprinkled a little bit of Canada across all my senses. Behind the wheel, …
Author: Rich Crowley
Blue Steals One Late
Tough one tonight but Blue kept rolling into form and scored late and then added an empty netter to win 5-3.
Good on Peterborough
Good to see Peterborough put on such a good show for Hockey Day in Canada yesterday. Watching the snippets of the Pete's game at the Memorial Centre and the people skating on the canal brought back some good memories. I've had enough of Don Cherry though. Well past his best-before date. The man …
Scars
I stood groggily in front of the mirror this morning and for some reason noticed that line that runs perfectly horizontally across my nose about half way up. Imperceptible except up close, it's a memory carved into my beaker with an errant stick back on the driveway on Wolsely Street in Peterborough. I remember getting …
This Isn’t Normal and Why We Are Lucky Here in Canada
At our game last night in Elmira, a teammate who is a well-traveled cat made the comment about how lucky we are to place in such a fine facility. He travels so much he hasn't had a chance to play all that regularly over the past few years and he marveled about how nice it …
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When Time Isn’t Your Friend
The lace you've been meaning to change is bound to break when you are in the biggest rush. It's the truest of Murphy's Laws applied to hockey. Tonight, I was in a grand rush to get to my 9:00 game in Elmira because, as luck would have it, my brief after-dinner, pre-game nap turned into a …
Damn Dog
I left a couple of rolls of clear tape on my table saw in the garage after Christmas. I was in the backyard with the dog today and found him chewing on one. Seriously, clear hockey tape? How did some animal species exist prior to be domesticated?
The Lie Of Your Stick
Do they even publish this anymore? When I was a kid, the lie used to be written on the shaft of the stick. It was just one more cool measure to try and personalize to your style. "I just cannot get used to a 5 lie. I keep losing it out the heel." I'm sure …
When You Can’t Remember Last Week
Ok, confession time. This entry is being written almost a week late. My iphone app tells me Red beat us 3-2 on the 4th, that Brian and Bart spared for us but beyond that, there are no other clues and I cannot remember a thing about the game. I'm going to have to add …
Ovie, We Hardly Knew Ya
Watched a bit of a game this past week with the Caps getting beaten handily by someone. It was actually sad watching Ovechkin buzzing helplessly around the perimeter, rarely getting a shot, rarely looking dangerous. I hope it was just a bad game for him because he's far too young to have his abilities drop …
Rink Tales 