In my last year of high school play, the high school in Lindsay had entered the Peterborough area league. Instead of playing them after school during the week as we did other local schools, we would sometimes play on Saturday nights in Lindsay. We'd take a school bus to the game as a team but …
Author: Rich Crowley
The Superbowl Effect on Blue
Blue won last night but without some regulars. One to injury, one to a trip to Vegas for some fun on Superbowl weekend. Apparently the spares brought in were the lucky rabbit's foot needed to break Blue's two game losing skid and we skated to a very nice 5-0 win. The score didn't tell the …
Gloves
The last two pairs of gloves I've owned must have been made of some magic materials that my gloves prior to that never were. I bought my current pair about two years ago and they are wonderful. Not sure the brand. The ones prior, a set of Missions were equally good gloves and the leather …
Shoveling The Rink
Ah, the beauty and the beast of the Great White North's winter season. The cold being the beauty that gives life to the treasured outdoor rink. The beast being the snow, sleet, rain and combinations thereof that transform the act of shoveling the rink to something between a minor annoyance and a heart-attack inducing hell-on-blades …
There’s an App For That
Blue lost again last night but we made a game of it. Trailing 3-0 and 4-1, we battled back to 4-3 and then missed a couple of close ones that would have tied it before we lost it with the their 5th coming late followed by an empty netter. And...a personal milestone was achieved earlier …
Sharp Skates and Less Dinner
The last couple of games in the W have been grim. I needed a skate sharpen badly and have had too much dinner too close to game time. Accordingly, I got the skates sharpened up this weekend and am going to be real careful to eat lightly at dinner in the hopes of not …
A Hockey Friend Gone
I received word today that a childhood friend and teammate passed away this past Thursday. His name was John Cowling. The news has saddened me terribly. Although I had not seen him in 20+ years, nor kept in touch with him, I know that he was a very good man. It is funny how there is …
A Bit of Canadiana
There isn't any Scottish lineage in this old bloke but when friends invited my better half and I to a Robbie Burns gig scheduled for tonight, I was all in. It was at a local golf club and I guess one doesn't eat haggis in jeans and a sweatshirt so we had to throw on …
Hockey Smells
I have an awkward back door and landing area which makes it difficult to get my gear into and out of the house. As a result, I leave it in the garage. This works pretty well except in the really cold months because it just freezes and when I get to my games late at …
Game Day
I like Thursdays. For over 25 years, in the winter at least, Thursday's have been a hockey day for me. Granted, the game has been somewhere between low-key pickup and as high-tempoed as things can get in an oldtimer league, but make no matter - it's always been a great way to begin the …
Rink Tales 