Do you remember playing ball hockey way back in the day? I mean way back, prior to the invention of the now ubiquitous orange ball hockey ball. Back then, my memory tells me we most often used a tennis ball. Real pucks were for ice, sponge pucks were no good on any surface and …
Category: Early Days
Sponge Pucks
I don't know what made me think about this but as I was out and about today, enjoying the feel of Christmas in the air, I suddenly had this image of a sponge puck bounce through my brain. Remember those things? Damndest device ever made. They stuck brutally on concrete or asphalt driveways and parking …
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 …
When Old Hockey Nets Die
I'm not one of those handyman, McGyver types. I hold my own when it comes to fixing busted clothes-dryers, replacing panes of broken glass and I'll even change the oil on my own cars but I don't build entire rec rooms, turn 4 cylinder engines into V-8's with popular mechanics kits or wire the cottage …
Time Warp
I was out walking the dog in the neighourhood this morning and came across two young boys playing hockey in their driveway. I actually heard them before I saw them. It was that distinct sound that occurs when a hockey stick hits a paved driveway as a tennis ball or one of those orange ball …
Rink Tales 