The WOHL's annual Christmas tournament goes tomorrow night. Two hours filled with three mini-games for each of the league's four teams. Not exactly 16 wins required over 2+ months to bring home Stanley but a test of character and endurance nonetheless. I'm hoping (and pretty sure) the boys stayed in this weekend, mentally and physically …
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The Father David Bauer Tournament
The St. Pete's High School team that I played on competed in the Father David Bauer tournament for a couple of years in the late 70's and early 80's. In fact, the 1979 tournament was the inaugural event. I was in grade 10 for that first tournament and played exactly two shifts in a total …
From A Tournament A Long Time Ago
I dredged up this old button from a bag in the basement of old hockey stuff I've kept forever. I remember playing in a couple of tournaments in the Keene Arena as a house-leaguer. Great times. Otonabee Township is just south of the Peterborough City limits and where my ancestors settled way, way back in …
40 Years On
Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of the opening game of the '72 summit series. I don't remember the first game, which we lost 7-3 in Montreal, and which apparently was quite a national shock. The video clip of Game 1 highlights found at this link is really interesting to watch. The talent level was …
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 …
Thoughts prior to Christmas Tourney ’11 (and scouting video)
The W's Christmas tournament happens this Monday night. Anticipation is high that the old barn will be packed to the rafters with rabid fans who just appreciate hockey played the old school way. No helmets, sears catalog shinpads, goalies without masks, wooden sticks with no curve and players on opposite teams who just don't like …
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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 …
Rink Tales 