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 …
The WOHL Hockey Song by the WOHL House Band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Q1Jtn9YZy3k From the March 2012 end-of-season WOHL Symposium at the Central.
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 …
Scott Niedermayer Hasn’t Won The Golden Boot
The Stanley Cup, the Memorial Cup, the World Junior Championship, The Olympics.....and the Golden Boot. That is an impressive list of hockey trophies to be sure, and their order of listing does not imply anything with respect to relative importance. Some famous gents have had the good fortune of being a part of teams …
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Leaf Coach Criteria
I had to chuckle at Brian Burke's comment in an interview I saw yesterday on why Dallas Eakins wasn't considered the big job. Burke said "Eakins has never coached a playoff game in the AHL". After 5+ years of seeing Leaf players heading to the golf course at the end of the 82 game …
“EEEEWWWWW!”
This was the reaction my daughter got recently from a bunch of her girlfriends when she chipped in with her version of her most embarrassing moment ever. Not sure sure of the venue where this collective of young female wisdom dished up such stories but my daughter assured me her's got as strong a …
The One-Boot Net
I was out for a walk the other night quite late and wandered through downtown Waterloo past the rink in front of Waterloo town square. It was a fabulous winter night and on the rink a 5 on 5 game was in progress, fully ignoring the "rink closed, stay off" sign parked at the …
Sponge Pucks
I don't know what made me think about this but as I was out and about today, enjoying the feel of Christmas in the air, I suddenly had this image of a sponge puck bounce through my brain. Remember those things? Damndest device ever made. They stuck brutally on concrete or asphalt driveways and parking …
St. Anne’s Hockey Crest from the 70’s
An old-school St. Anne's hockey jacket crest from mid 70's Peterborough Church League. The club inexplicably changed their colours to Hab's colours sometime many years later, the brain fart of someone with a lack of imagination and disregard for tradition in my opinion. Nothing against the Habs but this purple and gold look was …
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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Rink Tales 