Being from southern Ontario, I will admit that my default team over many of my adult years has been the Leafs but that wasn't always the case. As a very young kid, I recall a brief dalliance with the Habs as I learned to ties shoes, read and fish (the big 3 of life skills) …
Category: Montreal
Roger Doucet
One of the things I've always loved about the anthems sung at hockey games is how the crowd and players all break into action before the last verse is complete. The players on the ice start to move and the fans start to cheer, clap, scream etc. It's game-on baby now that the anthem has …
How Fast Was Lafleur?
Dunno...but he always looked fast because of the way his hair blew in the wind when he raced down the ice. And when he scored, no one smiled like the flower. A little wry smile that lit up the rink.
Montreal III – The Meat of the Weekend
The weekend started with an eight hour bus ride on Friday morning. Lots of fun, lots of abuse and lots to eat and drink. The journey included discussions that ranged from humourous to philosophical to practical to just plain old trivia. For example, someone asked if perhaps next year there was a limo-plane we …
Montreal III – Where to Begin?
Like our two previous Spring trips to Montreal for a weekend of hockey and sociable, this one was a dandy. From this old blogger's perspective, the one big difference is that I wrote stuff down on my blackberry as the weekend progressed so unlike other years, I can actually remember some of the great one …
Montreal III – let the planning begin
Next year's pilgrimage to hockey's mecca takes place on the April 13th weekend. While not exactly in the league of an action-thriller trailer, the vid below of this past April's road trip home will hopefully help the recruiting drive. Is that limo bus a great way to travel or what?
It Wasn’t About the Hockey
The icing on the cake came with the last round of jager shooters. You see, after two nights of parking our sorry behinds at Hurley's on Crescent street for several hours, it was last call but the final order for jager shooters was one that could not be filled - Hurley's had run out of …
Montreal Take 2
Oliver Wendell Holmes, who to the best of my knowledge never played hockey, once said something along these lines: "Men don't quit playing because they get old, they get old because they quit playing." On that note, a bunch of hockey playing buddies and myself who are not quite willing to get old just yet …
Collapsing Boxes and Smoked Meat Sandwiches
It started out as an idea we talked about a year or so back in the dressing room after a pickup game. This idea was to attend a tournament out of town. Make a weekend of it. Perhaps even a week over March break where those with significant others could combine a beach vacation with …
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