How does one prepare for an old-timer hockey tournament? By playing hockey of course! Today was a good day as I was able to get to the Friday afternoon gang's weekly game of shinny. This weekly event is a beauty because it's an hour and a half. A wonderful way to start any weekend. …
Category: shinny
Christmas Ice
One of the great things about the Christmas season is spending time with family and friends. It's a cliche, but it's true. Squeezing in a game or two of hockey with old buddies fits nicely into this category. For those of us lucky enough to have kids who play the game as well, Christmas sometimes …
Choosing Teams Using The-Pile-Of-Sticks Method
I wonder if baseball players in sandlot games have ever made up teams by throwing their gloves in a big pile and then randomly separated them into two piles? Football? Hmmm...wouldn't work there given the lack of a common piece of equipment (assuming helmets aren't regularly worn for pickup games). Hoops? Nope, not there either. …
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Friday Hockey
Strangely, Friday has always been a day without much hockey in my life. House leagues tended not to schedule much on Friday nights, although for a few years my son's team used to have the odd practice in the late evening hours when the kids were older. High school hockey likewise didn't schedule things on …
The Game That Wasn’t
At the Queen's homecoming weekend this year, Commerce '87 and MBA '87 made early noises about playing a game against each other on Sunday morning at 8:00 am. Each side managed to accumulate 8 skaters and since the Commerce side had 2 goalies willing to play, the MBA's lack of a tender was no problem. …
Last night of summer season
Summer hockey ends tonite. Winter hockey started last Friday. That's good scheduling as gaps of time with no hockey are a drag.
One Last Shift
It's rarely a good thing to be on the bench at the buzzer signaling the end of game or ice time. There have been times where I was thankful for it but these instances have been few and far between. One of these exceptions includes those games where it was so chippy that you just …
Hot Day For Hockey
Today was the first week of fall-winter Friday afternoon hockey at Albert. Very hot day for hockey indeed. Lots of skating and since this was an hour and a half, we were all quite happy to see it end at 4:50.
Hockey Stuff Going On
Here's how hockey has played a role in this very average day in my life so far this morning...as of 11:22 AM: Got up, let the dog out and rather than walk him, (which he has become allergic to this summer), I spent ten minutes shooting two rubber balls back and forth across the back …
Ouch!
Our fearless leader, organizer and goaltender through many years of summer and winter hockey declared as he came off the ice this past Thursday night after shinny, "I bought 50 pucks at the beginning of the year and now I only have 15 left! I don't know where they all went." Without missing a beat, …
Rink Tales 