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 …
I Wonder How The Old Guys Feel About This
Super Mario has new digs. Alright, it is a vacation property but it's kinda nice. I wonder how guys like Johnie Bower and company, who were featured in the press this week talking about how small their pensions are and how the strike is affecting them, feel about this. I guess if things get real …
Turk
Derek Sanderson's autobiography was published recently. By all accounts, it's a crazy story because this guy lived a crazy life. It's amazing he's still around to tell it. Check out a book review here. I remember my Dad telling me about reading one of the sports columns of a Toronto paper back in the 70's …
Firewagon Hockey
Here's a great book if you followed the game in the 80's. I was given this for Christmas a few years back and it's packed with wonderful photos, stats and stories on the great players, teams and rivalries from that era.
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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Molson Golden TV Ad – Missing in Action
Like most guys my age who grew up interested in hockey, Hockey Night in Canada was a staple on the tele on Saturday nights. If I recall, the Leafs often had a Wednesday night game as well. Typically, the main advertisers were oil companies (Esso), car companies (Ford) and beer companies (Molson's). Some things …
Monday Night Hockey
I'm not sure I could live without a game tonight. So...off to the rink I go.
1978
Last night's flashback game on CBC was a Habs-Bruin match from the 1978 play-offs. I happened to turn the game on at the exact point where Jonathan and Bouchard went at it. Man, what a fighter Jonathan was. Did he ever make a mess of Bouchard. Here's a link to the vid …
“The Savardian Spinorama”
A truly great phrase from the late Habs Colour man Danny Gallivan to describe Serge Savard, the Hab's defenceman from the 70's, as he would do a 360 to evade an oncoming fore-checker.
A Lost Edge
Is there a worse feeling than having to play a game with a really bad wheel, an edge so totally gone that you have to turn one way all night? You'd feel like those poor sailors on the Bismark's final voyage.
Rink Tales 