Author Archives: Fred Wallace

The weather over the last two weeks was not spectacular, but while I was away I managed to read a couple of hockey books. One was called ” As the Puck Turns ” by former Toronto Maple Leaf ...

The Ontario Hockey League Priority Selection was staged Saturday. And the question today is, how much of a priority is the Priority Selection ? In my mind, the best two teams in the OHL last year were...

The local harness racing season begins tomorrow night at Hanover Raceway. The preparations for the 2009 season at Hanover have been underway for months….but, as you can imagine, when you get clo...

There was an incident on the SMHLPA trip to Buffalo & Pittsburgh that I can’t shake. The trip had 30 tickets for each game, and there were 28 SMHLPA members, therefore 2 extra tickets per ga...

One of the good laughs I got from reading ” The Yankee Years ” came at the end of Joe Torre’s dozen year run as Manager of the New Yorkers. Embattled on every front by George Steinbr...

Last winter in a game at Guelph, Graham Snyder popped into the broadcast booth to say ” hello ” and to ask for our region to assist in Elmira’s quest to become ” Hockeyville &#...

Earlier this month Scotiabank & the Sunday Mourning Hockey League Players Association brought Wilf Paiement to Owen Sound as part of the annual Easter Weekend Oldtimers Hockey Tournament. Wilf Pai...

At the OHL Trade Deadline, I heard the Owen Sound Attack consumated two deals to add defencemen; one with Saginaw, the other with Niagara. When I checked with the Attack, General Manager Dale DeGray c...

What a difference a year can make. In the winter of 2008, the Owen Sound Volkswagen Junior Selects were concept on paper. They had a decent idea of who they had for players, and with a vacancy in the ...

This is an old horse, & it’s probably been beaten to death, but it’s a horse that I saw first hand awhile ago and the image has stuck with me for weeks. With the Attack eliminated from...