If you played organized hockey as a little kid, chances are decent you threw the pads on for at least one go in the cage. It might have only been for a practice, or a scrimmage or even a mother-son, father-son game. I never did. I had aspirations of doing so. I was all queued …
Category: Church League
Why Is That Buzzer Ringing?
I don't know the exact date of my first real hockey game. However, I was eight and that would have made it the fall of '72, which in hindsight is a pretty cool time to have begun playing hockey in this country. My first team was St. Anne's in the Peterborough Church League (there …
St. Anne’s Hockey Crest from the 70’s
An old-school St. Anne's hockey jacket crest from mid 70's Peterborough Church League. The club inexplicably changed their colours to Hab's colours sometime many years later, the brain fart of someone with a lack of imagination and disregard for tradition in my opinion. Nothing against the Habs but this purple and gold look was …