When I was a kid, indoor rinks were nasty cold places in the heart of winter. I guess they still are but I'm old enough now to enjoy throwing stories to my kids about how it was colder and snowier back in the day. For parents and other spectators who didn't benefit from the physical …
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50 Mission Cap
As a big Tragically Hip fan, this song is one of my fav's. Barilko of course, is the stuff of legend, made more so by the tragedy that ended his life so quickly after him reaching such a wonderful pinnacle of sport at such a young age. Imagine scoring the overtime winner against the Hab's …
High Points
I've had a million moments of joy playing hockey. My memories in this emotional horn of plenty range from my earliest days of having a stick in my hand until present day. My dad claims it started even before that when I was three weeks old. He said that on a particular Saturday night, …
Ski Week Without Hockey
When I was at Uni, I would come home to Peterborough during ski (reading) week each year. I remember one particular year where I was looking forward to some R&R and a little hockey and being big time disappointed when a big thaw hit either just as the break arrived or shortly thereafter, washing all …
Playin’ with the Big Kids
My son works with young kids, ages 5- 11 approximately. He came home tonight chuckling because one of the kids asked him if he played hockey. My son replied that he had in years gone by. The youngster then asked "Did you play with the big kids?" to which my son again replied that he …
Driving Home
I had an awesome drive home after last night's game. It was cold and there was a healthy wind hammering a fair bit of snow horizontally across Highway 85 as I drove back to KW from Elmira. It felt like someone had sprinkled a little bit of Canada across all my senses. Behind the wheel, …
Good on Peterborough
Good to see Peterborough put on such a good show for Hockey Day in Canada yesterday. Watching the snippets of the Pete's game at the Memorial Centre and the people skating on the canal brought back some good memories. I've had enough of Don Cherry though. Well past his best-before date. The man …
This Isn’t Normal and Why We Are Lucky Here in Canada
At our game last night in Elmira, a teammate who is a well-traveled cat made the comment about how lucky we are to place in such a fine facility. He travels so much he hasn't had a chance to play all that regularly over the past few years and he marveled about how nice it …
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Ovie, We Hardly Knew Ya
Watched a bit of a game this past week with the Caps getting beaten handily by someone. It was actually sad watching Ovechkin buzzing helplessly around the perimeter, rarely getting a shot, rarely looking dangerous. I hope it was just a bad game for him because he's far too young to have his abilities drop …
Lindsay on a Saturday Night
In my last year of high school play, the high school in Lindsay had entered the Peterborough area league. Instead of playing them after school during the week as we did other local schools, we would sometimes play on Saturday nights in Lindsay. We'd take a school bus to the game as a team but …
Rink Tales 