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 …
Category: High School
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 …
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, …
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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 …
Lindsay on a Saturday Night
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 …
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 …
The Black Scots
One year in high school, our coach arranged a couple of exhibition games in Toronto. One of them was against the Sir John A. MacDonald Collegiate Black Scots. It was during their spirit week and they invited us into their school for a winter barbecue I think although I cannot remember if it was before …
Peterborough’s Snofest Tournament
Peterborough's annual Snofest High School Hockey Tournament, which I think lives on, was traditionally held around the first week in January. It was part of a winter-carnaval thing the city did and I remember they also had snowmobile races around the track in the fairgrounds outside the Memorial Centre, the High Cathedral of Hockey in …
Rink Tales 