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4          December 2017 Issue #61                                                        www.sportsenergynews.com



        Group of Local Hockey Players Join Together


        to Play in the 57+ SEV International Hockey



        Tournament & Reminisce



        By Molly Kett                         the Cornwall Minor Hockey Association
                                              Atom A Lally Munro Fuels squad.”
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            ecently a group of local hockey
                                                 It was great for this group to get to
        Rplayers joined together to play
        in the 57+ SEV International Hockey   play together again and join forces with
                                              a handful of other local hockey players,
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        Tournament  located  in  Brossard,
        Quebec. This tournament is an annual   too.
        event  that  includes  a  wide  variety   “Despite aging and a bit slower
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        of ages, categories and levels.    The  skating,  the  competitive   edge,
        Cornwall teams were in the competitive  enjoyment of the sport and comradery
        division and competed against a team  hasn’t dwindled,” says Smith.
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        from Montreal and two teams from the
        USA.                                     That threesome of Smith, Rick Leduc,
                                              and Vic Leroux, brought their Atom A
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          According to one of the players,  winning ways, as league runner-ups,
        Geoff Smith, there was quite a bit of  to the Classics tournament success as
        story-telling and reminiscing before  champions.
        playing the first game.
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                                                 Smith says that the three of them
          “The guys were sharing stories and  are “going to make sure that they suit
        doing the usual dressing room pre-game  up together more frequently and get
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        preparation  with  plenty  of  the  typical  to reminisce more about the old days
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        joking and kidding,” says Geoff Smith.  of playing half-ice at  the Bob
        “It came up that three members of the  Memorial Centre.”
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        Classics - Rick Leduc, Vic Leroux and    Smith  says he enjoyed  a day of
        myself, although always living and
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        playing hockey in the Cornwall area,   playing  with  old  friends  and  former
                                              teammates from the Cornwall and
        had never once played on the same team   surrounding area.                  Left to Right Vic Leroux, Geoff Smith and Rick Leduc
        since being teammates in 1968-69 on                                                                                                  Photo Submitted
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