craigcoxe
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You Know You've Been Around Hockey Too Long If You Know...
What an Armadillo Thumb is.
The next line to 'Clear The Track...'
What end rolls means.
Cooperalls were not what hockey equipment should look like.
You break your wrist but keep trying to play regardless, jeopardizing your self-indulgence on youporn.com
The significance of Andy Bathgate.
Why a journeyman like Gilles Gratton who played only 41 games deserves a place in hockey history.
You had a hockey lunch box with a thermos that had that shiny glass stuff that broke on Day 1 of school.
Peter Puck was a more significant character than Peter Pan.
You had worn a pair of those yellow/brown thin Cooper street hockey pads that wrapped around your legs (and caught tennis balls with a three-fingered GM3 glove made in Barbados).
Please continue...
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11/7/2009, 7:51 am
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Re: You Know You've Been Around Hockey Too Long If You Know...
...what a tube skate is.
...how to lift a puck with a goalie stick THAT HAS NO CURVE.
...that Bernie Parent wrote the second-best goalie book ever, and you read it while he was still an active player.
...what a Winn-Well Kurv-Pam is.
...that "Ensolite" could be used to line arm protectors (this prevented bone breakage, but not bruising).
...that Michel Plasse was the first goalie credited with a Pro Hockey goal.
Great thread, cc.
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Re: You Know You've Been Around Hockey Too Long If You Know...
...you know how to backhand the puck over the glass and out of the rink using only one hand (a former coach insisted I learn to do this as a way to stop play)
...you know what a Curtis-Curve is
This is great! I'll have to ponder on some more!
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Re: You Know You've Been Around Hockey Too Long If You Know...
...what a tinny is
...what cooper weeks and jc higgins made
...owned a Hespeler Green Flash
...how to gets some more mileage out of old hockey tape by heating it with a (wooden) match
...that all hockey pucks used to read "Viceroy Made in Canada"
...how to keep warm while playing goal outdoors, remember a sprinkle of pepper in your (tube) goal skates?
...that you were the only kid on the team who didn't dread when it was your time to play nets?
...the smell of a wool hockey jersey being warmed/thawed between periods, in a cramped change shack, while being held next to a pot belly stove.
..."Made in Barbados", oh yeah and the instant status when you had the genuine "Made in Canada" gear.
Thanks for the memories.
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Re: You Know You've Been Around Hockey Too Long If You Know...
I'm stumped on Ensolite...
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11/7/2009, 8:21 pm
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Re: You Know You've Been Around Hockey Too Long If You Know...
"Ensolite" is a closed cell foam, usually blue or beige in color. It was very popular with backpackers in the 70's, sold as a roll for sleeping. It was easy to cut and shape, and I lined my foam-rubber-padded CCM arm "protectors" with the stuff (I had to, because I had a DOWN PARKA that afforded me more protection).
"Tube skates" are what we called the pre-Tuuk blade holders on non-goalie skates.
My turn: what's a tinny?
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Re: You Know You've Been Around Hockey Too Long If You Know...
Back when athletic cups were made of metal they were referred to as tinnys. Playing on cold Canadian outdoor rinks these things had a tendency to freeze. The sound heard whenever someone took one in the jewels had a unique ring, usually followed by a painful animal like "uhhhh". I don't think that last part has changed much over the years.
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Re: You Know You've Been Around Hockey Too Long If You Know...
quote:
Wonder35 wrote:
Back when athletic cups were made of metal they were referred to as tinnys. Playing on cold Canadian outdoor rinks these things had a tendency to freeze. The sound heard whenever someone took in the jewels had a unique ring, usually followed by a painful animal like "uhhhh". I don't think that last part has changed much over the years.
LOL!
Thanks on Ensolite also.
I could add:
You've worn 4" foam around your legs as makeshift pads held up by electrical tape or a string.
When someone got bodychecked while playing, someone would yell "Robitaille"! (Mike Robitaille was the Scott Stevens of that era).
You've worn someone's slimy and sweaty Cooper HM6 without hesitation whenever he got tired on playing goal.
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Re: You Know You've Been Around Hockey Too Long If You Know...
If you ever wrote CANADIEN in a pretty damn good replica font on the paddle of a plastic Mylec goalie stick in 1979 AND you also got your mom to buy you a set of letter stampa and a permanent ink pad so that you had your own "pattern" of sticks as a pee wee in 1980!
I did all of this and more!
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