I'm not sure there's a hockey equivalent to three-strikes-and-you're-out but I may have gotten close to it this past Thursday night at my game. The good guys fell behind 2-0 early to the bad guys and I'm guessing we were a half dozen or more shifts into the game when my line headed out to …
Category: WOHL
Like The Masters, But Without The Patrons
To be fair, the WOHL's year-end tourney usually does have some fans show up. Not as many perhaps as those that make the trek to Augusta National in the spring, but hey, a golf course is far roomier than an indoor rink so it's not really a fair comparison of the popularity of these two …
The Golden Boot – 2020
So...here we go eh? Another year in the W has passed and the season ending tourney played out in all its sporting glory. Even in these strange times, the show must go on, no? Buckle up boys, and I'll do my best to chronicle how this year's event went down. There were some moments that …
I’m ready to go Coach, put me in!
Sometimes taking a bit of a break gives one some perspective. I've written a total of 4 posts in just over the past 6 years here on Rink Tales. Time truly flies. A couple of those posts were written about 4 years ago while my mind was hyperventilating with the prospect I might not be …
To The Victor (Orange) Go The Spoils
A nice piece for Team Orange's trophy cabinets. To think, with a different bounce or two in the first game, that this could have been a white puck. Next year baby, next year....
The Symposium
Ah, the annual Monday after. After the end of the WOHL season that is, and the Monday after is when the annual symposium is held at the Central in Elmira. The WOHL band will play, the chicken wings will be trotted out, former stars like Lloyd will be present in the shadows, having passed with …
Lizard Liquor, Racoon Roadkill and The Great Pumpkin
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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A Final Blue Victory
Blue closed out the season tonite with another win - the third in a row in another solid effort. Post game, the jerseys were thrown in a heap, torches to be past to a new set of blue warriors who will wear them on Saturday at the season finale. We all agreed it was a …
What Makes a Great Hockey Team?
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 …
True Blue
Some games are painfully difficult, some are wonderfully simple. You'll note I didn't use the word "easy" to define the opposite of difficult. No game is ever easy for an old-timer. Let's leave it at simple. Tonight's game was a good example of simple. Red has owned us the last few times we played them, …
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