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. …
Category: Early Days
Talking Hockey Over Cherry Cheesecake
My wife and I got together with some old high school friends last night for dinner in Courtice, just east of the 'Shwa. Great to see everyone again and to talk hockey with some old school buddies. We talked about our St. Pete's high's recent OFSSA hockey win and reminisced about days gone by …
St. Pete’s Wins OFSSA
Congrats to St. Pete's High in Peterborough who won the OFSSA hockey championship this past week. Head coach Ed Sullivan's is a former St. Pete's player and is a brother to Pete whose line I played on in my four years on the team in the early 80's. Assistant coach Steve Stanlick was also …
OFSSA Champions (Not)
32 years ago today, the 1980-81 St. Petes's team, of which I was a part, headed off to OFSSA in North Bay on a yellow school bus. It was a solid team sporting a 38-3-2 won lost record and was the second seed in the eight team tournament. We had played and beaten the first …
Great Play-off Games
It was St. Anne's vs. Northminster sometime in the late 70's or early 80's. I think we were Bantams but maybe major Pee-Wees. They were a good team all year but we were better. Coaches Ed and Brian made sure we knew it. For a team that was just a bunch of house league …
OFSSA – The First Time
33 years ago today, my St. Pete's team headed off to OFSSA in Toronto. I was a grade 10 and played very little that year. We had a core of very strong older players where our best five on the ice were as good as the same best five from any team in the tournament. …
The Bad Wheel Giveth Life to the Voice Within
When you lose an edge, you gain a dreadful feeling that lurks inside you, that little presence that tells you not to turn too hard, too fast, too sharp. Don't wheel too quickly when the play breaks the other way, don't spin quite as tight to lose a defender down low. For if you do, …
Continue reading The Bad Wheel Giveth Life to the Voice Within
The One That Got Away
The one that got away is a metaphor for many things in our world today. I really like to fish and have had a few good ones literally get away on me. My son caught a big bass one night when he was only 8 or 9 only to have it get away beside the …
Getting Ready for Play-Offs
It's a very long time since I've experienced the sensation of preparing for play-off's as a kid. February makes me think of play-off's in those years. As a kid, we had great play-off formats in house league. These varied across the years but there were several years where we played two out of three …
Championships
A friend /neighbour who has a son the same age as mine, once remarked after our boys' house-league hockey team won their league championship, that it was a really wonderful thing to be part of a winning team because many kids play sports for years and never get that experience. Couldn't agree more. I …
Rink Tales 