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Presents Jim Riddell’s Sports Talk
with Area Senior : Gord Black
Serving You Since 1937
have to bring snow in from the outside
to cover the ice. The snow would soak
up the water and then be scraped off so
we could play another game.”
Always a goaltender, Gord
progressed up through the minor ranks
By Jim Riddell in Shawville and at age sixteen he
was signed to a Junior contract by the
“A lot of fun with hockey are the St. Catherine’s Black Hawks for the
people that you meet over the years in ‘71-‘72 season. Prior to signing with
various situations,” Gord began, “it’s St. Catherine’s, Gord had travelled
not just the people that you played with, to Quebec City where he witnessed
but through the connections that you’ve the infamous Game Four of Eastern
made after you finished playing.” Playdowns of the Memorial Cup
Growing up in Shawville, QC, a small where the Black Hawks, led by Marcel Photo Submitted
English-speaking town about eighty Dionne, were playing Guy Lafleur’s months prior. Game 4 had 102 minutes and police had to intervene. The St.
km west of Gatineau, and just across Quebec Ramparts. There was still an in penalties with 77 of them going to St. Catherines coach had his players get on
the Ottawa River from Renfrew, ON, abundance of political unrest at the Catherines. The Black Hawk players the floor of the bus for safety as they
Gord began playing organized hockey time as the chain of events involving were pelted with objects ranging from were being followed. A crowd gathered
in the mid 60’s. “I started playing in the the FLQ, that led to the October eggs and potatoes, to nuts and bolts. around the team hotel until the wee
old Richardson Arena with no artificial Crisis, and the War Measures Act being Following the game, the team bus was hours of the morning. Game 5 was
ice, if we had a warm spell, we would implemented, had only happened a few being rocked by fans in the parking lot Continued on page 27
