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 …
Category: people and places
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 …
Spring is Here and the Leafs Aren’t
This will be a short post. I'll start by acknowledging I'm not a Leaf fan and it's easy to criticize them. Lots of pro sport teams aren't very good over long periods of time. However, some are and I don't think it's luck. Do you think the Leafs have started several of the last few …
A Goalie With Ice In His Veins…Really
No 'splaining necessary on this one. What a wonderful sculpture this is, eh?. Some creative type carved this sucker in downtown Waterloo in the courtyard in front of the Bauer Kitchen. I see room low on the stick side over his pad. Is he (she?) getting ready to poke check? If so, five hole is …
A Hockey Player’s Christmas List
From a purely hockey perspective, here are some gifts I would love to get, in no particular order: Two tickets to a Bruins game in Orr's rookie season A chance to watch Gordie Howe shooting at the head of any guy who dared to try and block his shots. (Apparently he did this) A chance …
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 …
Great Players – Mike Bossy
Growing up, I was a big New York Islanders fan. I don’t remember exactly what drew me to them instead of the Leafs or Habs, which were probably the favourites of 8 out of 10 kids back then. Nor do I remember when exactly they became my team. However, I suspect it had something to …
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 …
When Old Hockey Nets Die
I'm not one of those handyman, McGyver types. I hold my own when it comes to fixing busted clothes-dryers, replacing panes of broken glass and I'll even change the oil on my own cars but I don't build entire rec rooms, turn 4 cylinder engines into V-8's with popular mechanics kits or wire the cottage …
What Makes a Great Rink Attendant?
The first half of this year's summer season is on Wednesday night's in New Hamburg from 10:00 -11:00. A couple of weeks back, we noticed that the garage door hiding the zamboni opened around 10:48 and the rink attendant appeared at the glass behind the net. We knew our time was up in two minutes …
Rink Tales 