Charles Schulz would have been proud if he'd been in Elmira today. The creator of the Peanuts comic strip was an avid hockey fan. However, as well as creating Charlie Brown and his merry band of carousing guy buddies, his colourful pooch Snoopy and some pretty saucy young dames, he also gave life to …
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Good refreshments. And so, with the White team gelling nicely via email this week in anticipation of Saturday's season close-out tournament, the talk was decidedly around who was bringing what to the rink to replenish the machine between games. I'm almost embarrassed to say that I don't think Martha Stewart could have planned this …
Heard an interesting comment from a fellow player recently. We were discussing the joy one gets from a post-game beer. Now this cat is one who knows, and loves, beer. I forget which one he was describing (I am an oldtimer after all and this conversation didn't happen today) but he called it his "go-to …
The last couple of games in the W have been grim. I needed a skate sharpen badly and have had too much dinner too close to game time. Accordingly, I got the skates sharpened up this weekend and am going to be real careful to eat lightly at dinner in the hopes of not …
Ever since I began playing in the Woolwich league, we have played hockey on Monday nights. This means that we play on the night of Thanksgiving Mondays. This means there are a bunch of old guys, most of whom love food, who have eaten too much at several meals over the course of three days …
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