I didn't play on teams that did much travelling until I was in high school. However, I remember those days well and it never fails to bring a smile, if not to my face, then at least within my mind, remembering the good times spent travelling with not just friends, but hockey-playing friends. Peterborough to …
Category: Road Trips
OFSSA Champions (Not)
32 years ago today, the 1980-81 St. Petes's team, of which I was a part, headed off to OFSSA in North Bay on a yellow school bus. It was a solid team sporting a 38-3-2 won lost record and was the second seed in the eight team tournament. We had played and beaten the first …
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, …
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 …
On the 401?
While driving on the 401 earlier today, in stop and go traffic (as is usually the case when crossing the top of Toronto on a long weekend), I spotted a single shinpad laying on the outside shoulder. I quickly asked my son, who was travelling with me, to snap a picture of it with his …
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 …
Rink Tales 