Alright, there really is one thing as bad a the one-goalie scenario I wrote about previously. It's when you get to the rink for your 10:00 PM game on a Monday night around 9:40 only to find out your game was at 9:00 PM. This happened to one of the boys on the blue team …
Category: Hey Oldtimer
Blinded by the Twine
A few weeks back, I had a chance to score where I was wide open at the right edge of the crease with the puck and the goalie was down on his back. His glove was on the short side but all I had to do was shoot it over him. So that's what I …
Christmas Eve
Do you remember the feeling you got when you were a little kid on Christmas Eve? That excited, jumpy, nervous, happy-as-hell, can't-wait-until-it-finally-gets-here delirious feeling? I'm glad there's old-timer hockey, with the start of a new season every year about this time, to replicate that feeling for grown-up's. The W's new season starts tonight. And yes, …
Shinny Armageddon
Is there anything worse in recreational hockey, (I mean ANYTHING), than having only one goalie show up? This is a rhetorical question of course because anyone who has ever slapped on skates at 11:00 PM on a -18 degree night in January (in a rink that feels much colder than that) will tell you that …
The Orange Team Winter 2010 – A Team for the Ages
Perhaps the last part of the title of this post should read "...- A Team of Old-Agers" given the way we played last night. But I digress. This isn't about last night's game, with it's massive comeback derailed just short of a tie in the dying seconds. This is about the Orange team, a great …
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It’s About More Than Just the Hockey…
Heard in the dressing room following my game in the WOHL last Thursday night (and proving, with a chuckle, that truth is stranger than fiction): Story #1: As a youngster, one of my teammates indicated at the age of 9, he let off a bunch of firecrackers in his closet at home. He had taped …
Chasing Larry
I felt great before last Thursday night's game. I didn't over-eat at dinner, had a quick nap before the game, went hard in the warm-up and felt like all the ingredients were in the mix for having a great go with the dreaded white team, the team Larry plays for. However, in the end, the …
Quick, pull the goalie….NO WAIT!!!
As 2009 comes to a close, most Canadian sports fans would tell you that the biggest tactical sporting blunder of the year, and perhaps of all time, was made during this year's Grey Cup game where the Saskatchewan Rough Riders' vaunted 13th man actually turned out to be the grim reaper. However, only a few …
New Digs for the WOHL in Elmira
The Woolwich Oldtimers Hockey League started play in their new home in Elmira last week. What a beautiful facility. Playing on an NHL size rink means a bit more huffing and puffing than normal but we'll all be in shape in no time. I believe that's Tim Farrell ripping off one of those patented laser …
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