The other day the phone rang and it was my old friend Ron Clarke, and although he lives in the Kitchener/Waterloo area, he was in Vancouver visiting his 34 year old daughter who has terminal lung cancer. Ron and I go back further than any other of my other friends as we were childhood buddies and [...]

I dug this out of a box only because I was looking for something else and good old Larry Wilson jumped out instead of Tim Daly, legendary trainer of both the Toronto St. Pats and the newborn Toronto Maple Leafs. So I’ll continue my hunt for Tim Daly’s autograph which I have somewhere, but in the meantime……. This is [...]

Jim Pappin was an important forward for the Toronto Maple Leafs when they were winning Cups and doing big things all those years ago. From 1963 to 1968, Pappin bounced back and forth between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Rochester Americans, won a couple of Lord Stanley’s, and eventually retired in 1977 after playing with several teams [...]

Fascinating Fact # 1   I owned a sports bar for awhile in Powell River, and during this time the infamous Hanson Brothers came to town for a promotional thing at the arena. Afterwards, they came into my pub and at midnight, I locked the doors and drank beer and talked hockey with them until about [...]