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 …
Category: tournaments
Young Guns
Today's tournament was a beauty. The team I played on won the event, a rather modest 4-team format with most everyone knowing one another. Our win was truly the result of us having two young guns who skated like the wind, handled the puck like it was theirs and theirs alone and some …
Tournament Tomorrow
Three games in a day in a four team tournament against a great bunch from Waterloo's High Tech League. I cannot think of a better way to spend a Saturday. Can't wait, especially after last night's warm-up with the first night of the summer season.
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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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 …
Let The Tournament Begin
The much anticipated email from the freshly-minted captains of this year's end-of-year WOHL tourney were sent yesterday. And the verdict is...White is the new Blue. Yes, I'll be trading in my blue sweater for a white one late Thursday night. White looks solid, really solid. As much as I'll have blue tatooed on my chest …
OFSSA – The First Time
33 years ago today, my St. Pete's team headed off to OFSSA in Toronto. I was a grade 10 and played very little that year. We had a core of very strong older players where our best five on the ice were as good as the same best five from any team in the tournament. …
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, …
Peterborough’s Snofest Tournament
Peterborough's annual Snofest High School Hockey Tournament, which I think lives on, was traditionally held around the first week in January. It was part of a winter-carnaval thing the city did and I remember they also had snowmobile races around the track in the fairgrounds outside the Memorial Centre, the High Cathedral of Hockey in …
Blue
"There was a lot of character in our room. When we got down early in the tournament by losing that first game, we didn't panic. The guys all believed in one another and knew if we just dug down a bit deeper and stuck to our game plan and continued to believe in …
Rink Tales 