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 …
Category: House League
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 …
Ed and Brian’s Team
I've posted other bits about coaches Ed and Brian. Here's a picture I found recently of a Peterborough house league team from some time in the mid 70's. This was take at Northcrest Arena in Peterborough and it looks like there was still wire screen at the ends of the rink where today all …
From A Tournament A Long Time Ago
I dredged up this old button from a bag in the basement of old hockey stuff I've kept forever. I remember playing in a couple of tournaments in the Keene Arena as a house-leaguer. Great times. Otonabee Township is just south of the Peterborough City limits and where my ancestors settled way, way back in …
Tape Balls (…no, not that kind)
Did you ever make a tape ball? I’m not sure if the tape ball is a sporting artifact unique to hockey but I cannot think of any others that could actually produce such a thing. For those of you unfamiliar with the concept, hockey players wrap tape around their shins and sometimes ankles to keep …
A Stick Too Long
Here's a story that's both funny and sad. When I was a kid, (I think I was around Pee-Wee age), there was a guy on my church league team who was by far the weakest on the team. A bit of a loner too outside of hockey. Anyway, he shows up early in the season …
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 …
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