I saw this picture the other day, and in keeping with sometimes being all over the map and straying from the Habs, I thought it important to show, especially if you’re from the Orillia or Cambridge areas, some good old senior hockey action. It’s a 1970 Senior A playoff game between the Orillia Terriers and [...]

For those of you in other countries, today, Sunday, is a big day in Canada. Grey Cup Day. The 100th Grey Cup. When Canadians from coast to coast gather to eat meatballs, dips and chili. They also drink a lot of beer on this day, which is never a good idea because most have to [...]

Nice, interesting story about Don Kelcher, a member of the Orillia’s 1973 Allan Cup-winning team, Kelcher Big Part of Allan Cup Win, sent to me from two fine Orillians Ron Green and Don McIsaac, although Don lives in Houston, Texas now. His heart’s still in Orillia though. It seems the Orillia coach Joe Kane (no [...]

Thanks a lot to Beatnik for sending the video below. It was Glenn Hall in nets for the Hawks who was the victim on the night the Rocket notched his 500th regular season goal, which was the first time a player had reached that milestone. I had breakfast with Hall once when he was in Powell River [...]

I worked way too hard one Orillia summer, a 15 year old with my buddy Ron Clarke, hauling creosote-soaked railway ties a hundred feet to the shoreline so these evil things could be pounded into place to make some sort of breakwater. The job paid $1.75 an hour, and by the end of August I’d saved enough money to buy a pair of C.C.M. [...]

The fantasy draft is over, the skills competition has wrapped up, we just have to get through what passes for a game, and All-Star weekend will draw to a close. My prediction for today’s game? Hmm. I’d say Team Chara over Team Alfredsson. Maybe a low-scoring affair - 31 to 24. And later on, Botox salesmen [...]

From the moment I saw how Dustin Byfuglien’s name was pronounced “Bufflin”, I wondered why. And last night I found out. It shouldn’t be “Bufflin” at all. It was a story told to me the other night in Powell River by a friendly salty dog named Bob Briggs, a retired diver and one of the original 1950′s Powell [...]

Grant Warwick came in the mail the other day. No, not the player, he died in 2000. It was the Bee Hive photo. And anyway, I don’t think the person would’ve fit through my mail slot. Warwick’s professional career saw him with the Rangers from 1941 to 1948, then a couple of years in Boston before his [...]

Powell River, the little semi-isolated town up the coast from Vancouver, boasts a junior team, the Kings, in the British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL), and one of the best senior squads in all of Canada, the Regals. It’s serious hockey played in these parts. But on Saturday night, the most important hockey game of the [...]

Some say Dan Lucas, left, was the best player ever to come out of Powell River, and that’s saying a lot because there’s something in the water here that produces world-class athletes. We’ve a captain of the Canadian National soccer team; an ex-Olympian track star; Roy Gerela – once a kicker for the NFL Pittsburgh Steelers; now-deceased [...]