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: Missed Chances
An Empty Thursday Night
This happens every year around this time. Winter season is over, spring / summer season not yet started. Not much to do on a Thursday night. Read a book? Go for a run? Ya right.
OFSSA Champions (Not)
32 years ago today, the 1980-81 St. Petes's team, of which I was a part, headed off to OFSSA in North Bay on a yellow school bus. It was a solid team sporting a 38-3-2 won lost record and was the second seed in the eight team tournament. We had played and beaten the first …
Missing Hockey
Other than tragic life events like death of loved ones, sickness and plagues, etc., there are few moments as low as having to miss one's hockey game because of work. Feb 28, 2013 lives in that particular infamy for this old pucker.
The Big Miss
I had an empty net tonight, from no more that six feet in front, with the goalie down and out (and by down and out I mean on his back somewhere closer to the corner of the rink than the net). This wasn't an empty net with a guy all over me, nor was …
Rink Tales 