by smitty on Sat Jan 12, 2013 10:23 am
I honestly wish I could remember the metal like support things so many of these young kids need to keep them upright & sometimes even a hockey stick with them. True some of those kids are still trying to learn a bit about hockey & often fell out of the support, BUT it was some help. I guess the parents bought all their hockey gear to put it on the kids & later removed it---that is not only costly but time consumming.
Had a mother of a Jr. Hockey team with her son playing goal so a lot more gear. She came up with the name of Febreze she applied to his gear needed for hockey & that she would have his goal keeping gear on the front of their car to sort of remove the smell, but when at home it was in the basement along with more Frebreze on it till the next time he was about to play hockey.
To think in my early years no hockey equipment & so often some of us would meet at the ex-garden in the back yard a father might have made into a sort of hockey or skating rink for us young ones. That was fun for all. Also in going tio school with skates over shoulders & a sort of beat up Jr. hockey stick we would shorten, we never had to worry about loosing the puck on the roads we walked for the milk to some other truck teaks sort of dropped a few for us. So it was tun to schol & also close to it on a small back yard rink.
Now to skate with adults, the hockey sticks were put away & it was skating with the adults. My Mother, of back in those days, was a good skater with a set of speed skates & went by the music to where sometimes she would have me join her with an arm to skate in similiar strokes to the music.
Funny thing is when I was still a baby, she would carry me around in a box on a slay, then start to skate. Being a good looking woman if seems she USED ME for an excuse to have to attend to her papy in that box & slay also on the ice. Also I never knew how I learned to skate. My father tried a waxed froor, with felt on the bottom of my shoes.
I remember During WWII we had so many chaps from Australia to New Zealand taking flying lessons close to our towns or cities. They would be struggeling along on the ice when holding onto the boards, while us young kids went whistling by them, though sometimes tried to tell them what was wrong, but really at such a young age we were usless in doing any teaching on the skating rinks. The above chas simple did not realize within a few years we started to learn in the back yards or on the few small ponds.
I always felt the Maple Leafs were my team to cheer on about, but when it came to a jersy my father asked someone in HQ to pick up one so unfortunately HQ was Montreal so wore a Montreal hockey sort of jersy.
Someone made sure that we had some JR Hockey team skates that were usless to them, but IDEAL to us young kids.
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smitty on Sat Jan 12, 2013 10:31 am, edited 1 time in total.