Author Archives: Fred Wallace

A year ago, my buddy Whitey & I went on a fabulous NHL road trip. On a Friday, Saturday then Sunday last year, we went from Buffalo to Toronto and then back to Buffalo seeing 3 NHL games in 3 nigh...

The city of Owen Sound and various community partners are in the process of exploring options and avenues for a new Community Recreation Complex. The target location for the proposed new center is at ...

Last week everything was virtually as expected and all was at peace. The Windsor Spitfires, as expected, swept the Owen Sound Attack in the OHL Playoffs and from my standpoint, I was happy with the se...

Is it fastball season ? Not for another month. Both the Owen Sound Volkswagen Junior Selects and the returning to the ISC fold Senior Selects will commence their training camps on the weekend of May 2...

So it’s over. For the 20th season, the Ontario Hockey League has come to the end of the line here in Owen Sound. About this time in 1989, Lou Kazowski made overtures about moving the Kingston Ra...

Truthfully, I spend waaay too much time on air critiquing the performance of hockey officials. I’m embarrassed by that on a number of levels, and I always pledge that I’m not going to do i...

The Ontario Hockey League Playoffs continue tonight in Owen Sound, and as every Attack fan knows, the playoffs could end tonight in Owen Sound. The O.H.L. Regular Season Champion Windsor Spitfires lea...

I’m a day or so early here, but I want to talk about an Owen Sound event that started quickly 7 years ago and has grown from its grassroots to becoming a city wide function. The 2009 Crone Cup H...

The first time I ever saw an NHL game live, I was 10 years old. March Break, 1971, Toronto Maple Leafs 3 New York Rangers 1 at Maple Leaf Gardens. You never forget. Five years later, I saw my second g...

Somewhere in a Canadian Ski Team van in the province of Quebec, Larisa Yurkiw’s cell phone went off. And while the quality of the connection wasn’t outstanding, it was still good to speak ...