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Continued from page 33 GM of the Edmonton Oilers) was Hardy Cup we had Neil Sandilands, Burger King and Fat Alberts, then
the big drawing card. Keith brought Dwayne Spink, Ian MacInnis, when that league folded, everyone
Hockey career. The following
his sister Kim with him on the bus Steve Seguin, Rod Mackenzie, and went back to the John Denneny. The
season Chris, along with Gerry
to all of our games.” Murray MacDonald. We played teams that I pitched with changed
Ingram, played with the Hampton the Halifax Moosehead Mounties
Virginia Road Gulls of the Atlantic For a few years Chris, along with and lost the series 3 games to 1.” but many of the players remained
Coast Hockey League. “I was there several other Cornwall area players, Chris then joined the Cornwall the same. The guys that I grew up
for about three months; the team were members of the Smiths Fall Hubs, playing with them for more with seemed to stick together, my
was about to fold, and I had the Rideau’s Sr. team which represented than twenty years. “I first played uncle Joe Harvey was the catcher,
option to come back and work at the area twice in the Hardy Cup. “We for the Hubs when I was only my brother Roy was 2nd base, and
Domtar.” had Pat Harriman, Marc Lalonde, about twenty-years-old, just out of Gerry Guay was 1st base and coach.
Brian Fontaine, Gilles Crepeau, and Randy O’Neil, Mike Branchaud,
Chris’s hockey career took a Junior, and they asked me to play my brother Scott, and myself were
myself. Dave Ezard was on the team,
unique turn in 1981-82 when he in a tournament in Char-Lan. It was pitching. One year that we were
but was unable to go with us due to
played one of the goalies in Slapshot very good hockey, Char-Lan had playing with the Fifth Wheel, we
work commitments. We played the
Live. The production was based out Doug Gilmour, Neil Sandilands, must have won twenty tournaments
Charlottetown Islanders coached by
of Toronto and was presented on Todd Gill, Steve Driscoll, and Ian and we were rated as one of the
Erroll Thompson. We won the first
ice. It was similar to the Harlem MacInnis. We had a pretty good top Intermediate teams around. In
two games of the five-game series
Globetrotters, we had two teams, team as well with Steve Seguin, 2013 Chris was a member of the
and may have been overconfident.
two busses and travelled mostly to Rob Currier, Jean Payette, and Canadian Fastball team that won
Thompson, who had played several
American cities and we would be Eddie Latumb, we beat them 2-0 the World Championship in Torino,
seasons in the NHL with Toronto,
gone for the weekend. There were in the final to win the tournament. Italy. The team had several other
Pittsburg, and Detroit, dressed for
three of us from Cornwall; Larry One game that stood out for Chris local players in addition to Chris,
the rest of the series and we ended
Staye, who played the role of one of was the time that Moe Lemieux including Jim Martel, Brian O’Neil,
up losing the next three games.
the Hanson brothers, Paul Marshall, put three of his goalies - Chris, Steve McGillis, Brian Lamarche,
The second time we went to the
and me. Keith Gretzky (now Asst. Mario Vien, and Rick Fillion on the Frank Marceau, and coach Bunny
same forward line in a tournament. Warner.”
“Mario had been a forward before
he became a goalie, and he could Chris spent approximately three
years at Domtar, saying that “It was
put the puck in the net. Mario wore
his goalie skates that game. Rick a good job, but it was a difficult
place to work when you are around
and I had both played forward
before and between the three of us twenty years old and love playing
sports. A couple of times, I called
we had seven or eight goals in that
In business since 2009. in sick on the weekend, my team
game. I had a lot of good times with
would win a tournament and I would
the Hubs, and we won quite a few
tournaments.” be in the team photo in the paper -
After the Hubs, Chris went to the that never went over well.” Chris
then worked nineteen years at Kraft
Cornwall Classics, a fifty and over (now Lactalis) in Ingleside, and
Do you need : team run by Alex Herrington. We for the past ten years he has been
did really well there also, going to a foreman with Cornwall Gravel.
the Canadian Championships twice Chris summed up his sporting career
√ a new website for your business ? and got beat out by the same team by saying, “Growing up playing
√ an existing website redesigned ? (Brampton) in double OT both sports teaches you life qualities like
√ help with an online store ? times. team play, respect, and friendship.
√ help maintaining a website ? Chris started playing fastball These are tools that you will use in
√ a website optimized for local search ? when he was fifteen years old, everyday life. I would like to thank
playing two seasons in the John Orval Tessier, Joe Harvey, and
Denneny League before moving Gerry Guay for the inspiration they
bernadette@dragon ywebcreations.com provided and also Mike and Jim at
613.363.7112 over to the Sportsman League. “I Sports Energy for the stories on area
www.dragon ywebcreations.com played in the Sportsman League
for six to seven years, pitching for athletes”.