There was a December when I was in high school, probably 1978 or 1979 when I was in grade 9 or 10, that I remember well. I'm not sure if it was abnormally cold and snowy early that year, or whether I'm just so old that I was around back when winter actually came …
Category: High School
Heavy Hits
I saw an old classmate and teammate from my high school years yesterday - Ross Cowie at Bud McDougall's funeral. A great stay-at-home defenceman, we played on the St. Pete's high school team together many moon ago. Ross took one of the hardest hits I ever saw, during an OFSSA semi-final game in North Bay …
The Father David Bauer Tournament
The St. Pete's High School team that I played on competed in the Father David Bauer tournament for a couple of years in the late 70's and early 80's. In fact, the 1979 tournament was the inaugural event. I was in grade 10 for that first tournament and played exactly two shifts in a total …
Hockey and British History
I've written previously that my high school hockey coach was a man named Dave Bowen from Peterborough. A fabulous coach. A student of the game and someone who just dripped passion for it, he really made it fun for me and was one of those people who, looking back, pushed me to be more than …
How To Pick Players In A Play-off Hockey Pool
In 1981, the Habs played the Oilers in the first round of the play-off's. The fading dynasty from the 70's against the dynasty to be of the mid-late 80's. I was in high school at the time and we had a hockey pool. Gretzky was good, we all knew that but the Hab's …
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The Brooklyn Islanders
I'll admit it - I'm a former Islander fan who gave up on his team along time ago. As a kid, and several years before they ran off four straight cup wins, I was a big fan of the Islanders. In the years following those cups, when Pat Flatley was captain (a player I actually …
Training
I was never much of a fitness buff. I'm still not. Some people get enjoyment out of exercise on its own but not me. As a kid, there was really no need to train for hockey because let's face it, kids as a rule are pretty fit. However, there was one summer where I did …
Rink Tales 