http://dennis-kane.com Rated By My Wife As The Best Site In The World Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:05:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://dennis-kane.com/practising-in-my-back-yard-to-join-the-canadiens/ http://dennis-kane.com/practising-in-my-back-yard-to-join-the-canadiens/#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:00:27 +0000 Dennis Kane http://dennis-kane.com/?p=3419 Walter Gretzky wasn’t the only one to make a backyard rink for his kid. Ernie Kane did too, and that’s me, practising like crazy to be a Hab, in our less-than-tony neighbourhood in Orillia. A few years later, when I was playing in an atom/tyke league, I smothered a puck with my knees just like I’d seen Doug Harvey do in a picture, which I still have. The difference was, Harvey smothered the puck in his end, and I smothered mine near the other team’s goal. I remember a man yelling from the stands, “Hey, wrong end!” And I remember hearing some other parents laughing. It’s stuck with me. Maybe it’s why I still have issues.

 

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