One Down, Three to Go as Attack Sent Packing
May 27th, 2011 by Peter Maher
The long, long junior hockey season wasn’t quite long enough for the Owen Sound Attack. Missing their two star forwards and banged up after 68 regular season games, followed by 22 playoff games, followed by three MasterCard Memorial Cup games – the Attack finally ran out of gas in their 94th game of the season. [...]
Majors Get Some Revenge, but Biggest Revenge Lies Ahead
May 26th, 2011 by Peter Maher
By Roger Lajoie The events of Sunday, May 15 hurt a little less for the Mississauga St. Michael’s Majors after Wednesday night. On May 15 the Majors lost the Ontario Hockey League championship to the Owen Sound Attack in their own building, on a goal in overtime in Game 7 no less. They [...]
Tie-Breaker Keeps Teams Alive – But Barely
May 25th, 2011 by Peter Maher
By Roger Lajoie It is not impossible for a team to win a MasterCard Memorial Cup playing in the tie-breaker game – but it’s nearly impossible. The Windsor Spitfires did it in 2009, coming back from an 0-2 start to the tournament to win four straight games – including the tie-breaker – to claim the [...]
Round-Robin Format Sometimes Leads To Confusion
May 24th, 2011 by Peter Maher
By Roger Lajoie The Mastercard Memorial Cup format is largely a good one and it works to make for a great event – but from time to time it makes for some confusion and awkwardness. This year is one of those years. Four games are in the books in the round-robin portion of the event [...]
Redemption Time For Cameron?
May 20th, 2011 by Peter Maher
By Roger Lajoie There is no doubt that there’s a lot of pressure at a Memorial Cup tournament. Everybody feels it – the players, the coaches, the managers, the referees, even the fans. There’s so much at stake of course for everybody involved – with 60 teams starting the season trying to win it, the [...]
Players To Watch At The Memorial Cup
May 19th, 2011 by Peter Maher
By Roger Lajoie The 2011 MasterCard Memorial Cup – it’s THE place to be seen if you’re a junior hockey player. The eyes of the hockey world will be on The Hershey Centre in Mississauga starting Friday night when the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League champion Saint John Sea Dogs take on the host Mississauga [...]
Twits can ruin the world of Twitter
February 28th, 2011 by The Rog
The world of twitter can be a fun place, and it’s certainly changed the way we communicate with each other. I’m on Twitter (@therog590) so go ahead and follow me if you like. I certainly use it as a tool to stay in touch and let people know what I’m doing, and to [...]
Super Bowl features super rip-offs – just beware
February 7th, 2011 by The Rog
DALLAS – Let me make this clear right from the start – I am not complaining. I love being able to get to cover major sporting events wherever they might be. But whenever anybody who is as lucky as I am offers a criticism of a major sporting event, those who don’t get to [...]
There’s no school like the old school
February 2nd, 2011 by The Rog
Everybody loves it when the “old school” teams make it all the way to the finals of any given sport. Even fans who hate those teams like it. When it’s the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers battling in the Super Bowl as they are this year, hey that is old school [...]
There’s always a reason to cheer if you are a fan
August 8th, 2010 by The Rog
What a fantastic weekend that was for the Toronto Blue Jays! They sweep the Tampa Bay Rays, the second best team in the American League; their rookie catcher J.P. Arencibia had a major league debut for the ages, and Brandon Morrow pitched one of the greatest games in franchise history, all in the [...]
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