Our last night of spring hockey in Cambridge last night was a thing of beauty for me. The trifecta for someone my age - I cut my stick off (again - another inch and a half) and voila, magic, my legs felt good and the heat and humidity slowed the ice to a slushy crawl …
Jofa vs Titan
You can still buy a Sherwood 5030 PMP in stores today but the Jofa's and Titan's of my boyhood days are long gone. Where do old, unbroken hockey sticks go?
The Pre-Game Nap
There is nothing finer than a good nap before a game and nailing it - waking feeling really solid and ready to go.
Characters
Ogie Ogilthorpe - one of the greatest characters the game has ever known. I love the movie Slapshot. It was such a parody of the game and life itself. While a little hard to listen to unless you are a longshoreman, like the movie Rocky, it's a collection of funny scenes, one after …
Who Invented The Dangle?
I always thought I could remember a video of Nifty Middleton pulling this off way back but when I you-tubed his highlights, I was mistaken. He was a gifted stickhandler but I didn't see any toe drag.
Mean, Dirty Guys with Lots of Rings
Summing up mean, dirty, talented leaders, who was better - Messier or Denis Potvin?
The Best Ever?
Gretzky or Orr? Is there anyone else that belong on this very short list?
Spell That
When I was a wee skater, my teachers used to say "just sound it out" when I was struggling to spell a word which works great if you're trying to spell "Mike Bossy". How do Finish teachers teach kids to spell with names like Pekka Rautakallio?
Scorers, Not
Guys who just couldn't score - Matt Stajan (ever), and for one season in Montreal, Scott Gomez. Or as Tiger Williams once said of Bob Gainey, "He couldn't shoot it in the ocean if he fell out of a boat."
Ohhhaaaahhhhmmmpppphhhh !@#$
Excluding any readers who are goalies, did you ever take a puck right in the candies? Umph - pain first, fear second.
Rink Tales 