hockey history
stats from a long time ago
| 1970-71 | ||||
| Legion Vets | goals | assists | points | |
| Jacques | Perron | 9 | 11 | 20 |
| Rolly | Pare | 13 | 6 | 19 |
| Bill | Mazurkewich | 8 | 9 | 17 |
| Keith | Norman | 9 | 2 | 11 |
| Jerry | Duhamel | 5 | 4 | 9 |
| Richard | Lampi | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| Glen | Lambkin | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| Max | Beyak | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| Dave | Alton | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Reg | White | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Ron | Bang | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Clyde | Riddel | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jim | Koroscil | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Louis | Zucchiatti | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Owen | Boland | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Jerry | Zajak | 0 | 1 | 1 |
The Oldtimers Hockey Story
The Winter of 1969-70 saw the first use of the arena for hockey. the first winter the ice plant had not been installed yet, so all it had been natural ice.
The Atikokan arena was built with lot of volunteers donating their time and skills to get the job done.
The Township of Atikokan donated the use of men and equipment they had to assist in the construction.
Most of the business community donated money, building materials and any other thing that was needed to get the arena built.
There were many groups who held bake sales, raffles and such to raise money to help fund the ice plant.
A group of older ex-hockey players Invited the Thunder Bay oldTimers and Fort Frances oldtimers, to come an play exhibition games to raise money to help pay for the ice plant.
In order to get in shape for these exhibition games, two teams were organized, most of the players had not played in many years.
Some of the players who played in the exhibition games did not play again in later years.
Two teams were formed to get in shape for the upcoming games with Thunder Bay and Fort Frances.
( some had played and won the Allen cup in the fifties with the Fort Frances Canadians)
Lou Graham coached and managed the team called Graham’s Wafers and Dale Lind managed and coached Lind’s Lunker’s.
The only game recorded by the Atikokan Progress, was played in february of 1970,
Graham’s Wafer’s Defeated Lind’s Lunker’s by a score of 6 to 5.
Scoring for the wafer’s were Jim Koroscil with 2 goals and Doug Tribe, Pat Pierce, Leo Lamarche, Keith Norman with one each. Jack Lewis, Jack Pierce, Jerry Zayac and Francis Milley were also on this team.
Goal scorers for Lind’s Lunker’s were Ralph Finch, Bob Prime, Finn Warren, George Roy and Omer Sampson. Al Triege, Dale Lind and Richard Kolton also played on this team.
Don Bruce refereed that first game and handed out one penalty, to Bill Hrychuk. This resulted in a penalty shot By Omer Sampson, he did not waste the opportunity and scored.
This was the first penalty shot scored in the new arena.
these two teams played a second game but I could not find any record of it.
The players who played for Ed’s Cat during the 1977-78 season
Ed’s Cat
#
20 Ed Gouliquer
15 Sandy Morrice
14 Benty Aho
12 Andy Olson
11 Dennis Kitzul
10 Ed Wright
9 Charlie Viddal
8 Allan Reere
7 Lynn Allen
6 Ron Bazinet
5 Leo Lamarche
4 Jerry Duhamel
3 Irving Herr
2 Gabby Gamache
1 Gary Reid
Wally Davidson played for Macleod’s during the liniment league season wearing # 11.
He played mostly defence and scored 4 goals and added 6 assists for 10 points.
he was assessed 8 penalties for a total of 16 minutes in the Sin Bin.
John Dugan 77-78 liniment league hockey season
Wearing Sweater # 5 John played on the team sponsored by Dunlop Tire,
they were called the Dunlop Retread’s.
His scoring stats for the season were 3 goals and 4 assists, for 7 points.
During this season John did not play many games as his job interfered with his hockey.
Ed Munn character from the 1977-78 Old timers hockey season (Liniment League Hockey Assoc.)
Ed played the 77-78 season with the Retread’s (Dunlop) and wore Sweater # 15.
During the season he scored 11 goals and added 15 assists for a total of 26 points.
He also spent 18 minutes in the penalty box.
Bob Moffat played for the Flyers, who were sponsored by Bob.
Bob was a stay at home defenceman and he was a very hard player to get around.
Bob did not play many games that year and only had one assist for that season, but played in the game which was the only shutout recorded in the 77-78 season.
Richard Kolton was in net for that feat.
Some more character’s from the 1977-78 Banner by Bob Stark
This Features Bob Cox, Keith Norman and Ron Speck.
Bob’s stats were 9 goals, 17 assists for 25 points. Bob led the league with 54 minutes in the sin bin.
Keith’s scored 4 goals, 6 assists for a total of 10 points and only 2 minutes in penalties.
Ron Speck scored 7 goals, 10 assists for 17 points and 6 minutes in the sin bin.
this drawing is from a banner of the oldtimers hockey players from the early 70’s.
It is some art work by Bob Stark and his version of Monty Rundle in goal.
Leo Lamarche played for Ed’s Cat in the 77-78 season, the nick name for the team was “the pussys”
Leo finished in sixth place in scoring, with 28 goals and 32 assists and 60 points.
He also had to serve 16 minutes in penalties for the season.
The Summer Leo
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