Ah, the annual Monday after. After the end of the WOHL season that is, and the Monday after is when the annual symposium is held at the Central in Elmira. The WOHL band will play, the chicken wings will be trotted out, former stars like Lloyd will be present in the shadows, having passed with …
St. Pete’s Wins OFSSA
Congrats to St. Pete's High in Peterborough who won the OFSSA hockey championship this past week. Head coach Ed Sullivan's is a former St. Pete's player and is a brother to Pete whose line I played on in my four years on the team in the early 80's. Assistant coach Steve Stanlick was also …
Lizard Liquor, Racoon Roadkill and The Great Pumpkin
Charles Schulz would have been proud if he'd been in Elmira today. The creator of the Peanuts comic strip was an avid hockey fan. However, as well as creating Charlie Brown and his merry band of carousing guy buddies, his colourful pooch Snoopy and some pretty saucy young dames, he also gave life to …
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Preparation
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. …
A Final Blue Victory
Blue closed out the season tonite with another win - the third in a row in another solid effort. Post game, the jerseys were thrown in a heap, torches to be past to a new set of blue warriors who will wear them on Saturday at the season finale. We all agreed it was a …
What Makes a Great Hockey Team?
Good refreshments. And so, with the White team gelling nicely via email this week in anticipation of Saturday's season close-out tournament, the talk was decidedly around who was bringing what to the rink to replenish the machine between games. I'm almost embarrassed to say that I don't think Martha Stewart could have planned this …
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 …
True Blue
Some games are painfully difficult, some are wonderfully simple. You'll note I didn't use the word "easy" to define the opposite of difficult. No game is ever easy for an old-timer. Let's leave it at simple. Tonight's game was a good example of simple. Red has owned us the last few times we played them, …
Let The Tournament Begin
The much anticipated email from the freshly-minted captains of this year's end-of-year WOHL tourney were sent yesterday. And the verdict is...White is the new Blue. Yes, I'll be trading in my blue sweater for a white one late Thursday night. White looks solid, really solid. As much as I'll have blue tatooed on my chest …
Great Play-off Games
It was St. Anne's vs. Northminster sometime in the late 70's or early 80's. I think we were Bantams but maybe major Pee-Wees. They were a good team all year but we were better. Coaches Ed and Brian made sure we knew it. For a team that was just a bunch of house league …
Rink Tales 