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Seaway Valley Rapids Bantam “AA” Look Back

on a Road Trip to Poland

By Jordan Todd

n 1994, the Bantam AA Seaway
IValley Rapids went on the trip of
a lifetime, as the whole team had the
opportunity to travel to Europe to play
hockey. They visited Poland, Austria,
and a few other countries during their
three-week stay.
After being randomly selected for the
trip the year before, the team did some
serious fundraising for an entire year.
Their goal was to make the trip free
for every player, and they eventually
did. If parents wanted to come, they
could pay their own way. Then, right
before they left in February 1994, the
tournament was cancelled. Rapids with host city Katowice Photo Submitted
“The government had changed in
Poland,” explains Gerry Goulet, who kids. It would end up being the trip of locals in the host city. their games.
was the goalie for the team at the time. a lifetime. “It was crazy,” says Goulet. “There “Everybody was just spitting it out,”

“And they cut the funding for the “We played in Czech Republic one were people everywhere; they were just says Goulet with a laugh.
tournament.” night, in a city called Karvina,” Goulet trying to get their hands on this hockey Goulet has many, many more stories
Lucky for them, the host city of recalls. “That night was one of the equipment from North America. For from the trip. It truly was a unique
Katowice decided to have all the teams most memorable; we played in front of us, it was stuff we gave away, but for experience, and something he’ll
come anyway and set up a bunch of 7,500 people.” them it was gold.” remember for the rest of his life.
exhibition games for the teams. As Before they left, the team had Then there was the time they were “It was just a really, really fun
long as they were going to Europe to collected a bunch of old hockey given bottles of sparkling water instead experience,” says Goulet. “It was just
play hockey, it was all the same to the equipment to give away to some of the of regular water to drink during one of amazing.”

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