5 hours + of commuting time today really didn't help me feel energized for tonite's weekly scrimmage. It was grim. Felt tired on the first shift and it got worse from there. What a difference from last week where I had good jump. The great equalizer of course is the cold beer afterwards whilst watching …
Author: Rich Crowley
One-Line Rinktales
For the month of May, I'm going to keep most of my Rinktales posts short and sweet - one-liner hockey thoughts. As the pros might say, I'm just tryin' to keep it simple and play my game. Keep puttin' words on the page and good things will happen. Today's thought? Imagine if Gretz had stayed …
Great First Rounds
As the play-offs for big boys begin, one has to wonder who will be the underdog that surprises this year. The first round of the NHL play-offs is one of the great carnivals of team sport. There's always some team that shouldn't, but does, which is often against a team that should have but doesn't. …
1980’s Washington Caps – They Couldn’t Win In The Playoff
When I think of really good teams that just couldn't win in the play-offs, the Washington Caps of the '80's come to mind. They had some great teams, and finished very high in the standings many years. I think they actually were tops in the league once or twice. They had some great players - …
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Kids in the Hall
As I strolled out the dressing room around 5:00 PM yesterday, after a fine late afternoon game of shinny at the recplex, there was a wee lad in the hallway with a stick and an orange ball. He looked like a little brother of one of the slightly older kids who had followed our time …
Getting Old
After playing hockey all day Saturday, and then having wonderfully lazy Sunday recovering, I woke up this morning unable to move my left arm. Not heart-attach-unable-to-move-my-arm but closer to torn-rotator-cuff sore. I'd prefer to tell people I hurt it playing hockey but alas, I think I hurt it sleeping.
Nets In Spring
There's few Canadian who don't love the arrival of spring. Even die hard winter fans love spring. However, as much as I love it, I also love to see remnants of winter sticking around as the days get longer and the suns brings people and leaves out. One of these remnants is the hockey net. …
Young Guns
Today's tournament was a beauty. The team I played on won the event, a rather modest 4-team format with most everyone knowing one another. Our win was truly the result of us having two young guns who skated like the wind, handled the puck like it was theirs and theirs alone and some …
Tournament Tomorrow
Three games in a day in a four team tournament against a great bunch from Waterloo's High Tech League. I cannot think of a better way to spend a Saturday. Can't wait, especially after last night's warm-up with the first night of the summer season.
Meeting Old Friends On The Ice
Spring / summer hockey started tonite. It was a great skate and more than a little tough to keep up with a crew that is much younger than my winter league. I hadn't seen many of these guys since the last time off the ice at end of the summer season last August. …
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