Author of the article: Randy Russon
Publishing date: Apr 05, 2021 • 6 hours ago • 5 minute read •
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As a writer who writes up more than one team in the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League, here are a number of notations as we move on from the 2020-2021 abbreviation of a season to what we can have faith in, at what could lie ahead at some point. • Graduating goalie David Bowen, who proved to be good enough to play in both the Ontario Hockey League and Quebec Major Jr. Hockey League, has committed to tend twine for the Laurentian Voyageurs of Ontario University Athletics effective the 2021-2022 season.
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Major question mark between the pipes aside, Soo Greyhounds figure to be a formidable force once the games begin on the pandemic affected version of a 2020-2021 Ontario Hockey League season. With seasoned skill and developed depth on the forward lines and at the defence position, the Greyhounds are set up for success in whatever form or length the anticipated, abbreviated OHL season takes. With fingers crossed that someone can step up and replace graduated overage goalie Bailey Brkin, the Greyhounds main question mark ahead of the looming season is who will tend twine for what is perhaps the most important position on just about any hockey team.
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John Manzo and Gary Trembinski are teaming up, again, to get one of the Top 100 Toronto Maple Leafs of all time inducted into Sault Ste. Marie Walk of Fame.
Joe Klukay grew up in Bayview. He played more than 560 games with the Leafs and Boston Bruins during a 10-year career that started in 1946. The Bayview Flash won four Stanley Cups, a record he shares with Marty Pavelich for most NHL championships won by someone from the Sault. Klukay won Lord Stanley’s mug with the Leafs in 1947, 1948, 1949 and 1951. Klukay was 41 when he celebrated an Allan Cup championship with the Windsor Bulldogs .
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From the archives of the Sault Ste. Marie Public Library:
Humble as always, Gretzky was astonished to receive an invitation to Team Canada’s World Junior Hockey Championship training camp.
He believed he had no chance at making the team, but that the training camp experience would be invaluable to his development. Unexpectedly he received a spot on the team.
With Bill Delargo of the Brandon Wheat Kings breaking his leg a month earlier, a spot opened for the rookie Wayne Gretzky. Later, Team Canada’s planned first-line centre, Bobby Smith, suffered an eye injury and Gretzky found himself positioned as the country’s number one centre out of sheer luck.