Thread: Hockey Talk

Originally Posted by nessmuck

So you must have played hockey, if you did ,who was the player that you tried to be when you were 13-17years old? Mine was Doug Favell ,remember him?

Yes i remember Doug a goaltender for the flyers and leafs at his starts i think, the player i was trying to be is easy Guy Lafleur,
favorite goaltender for me Ken Dryden, i did play Hockey from age 4 to 16, a winger with a bad knee at times when medicine
wasnt up to par on that, now 30 years later it feels better now then it did back then.

being born in pa, and growing up in west virginia, i was on skates at a young age, but alas, hockey and west virginia are not someting you normally put in the same sentence, but myself i am a huge flyers fan, for good or for bad ofcourse.

I tried to play just like Doug Favell,he made the easy saves look hard and the hard ones easy. While I was playing midgets(age 15) I had a Jacques Plante mask and in 1972 at the age of 16 I had a face formed mask made just like Doug.Favells .He was Bernie Parents back-up for the Flyers.I use the mask as a wall hanger now !!!!!

In those days we played hockey outside a lot and nobody had goaltenders pads, one kid was a goaltender and he didnt have pads,
the pads were furnished by the league. Anyways when we played outside we made goalie pads out of cardboard, many layers,
all taped together and they worked pretty good, and also a chest pad out of cardboard, every day off school we were outhere
for hours great memorys!!

Yep... My first pair of goalie pads were made from the cushion foam in an old couch,wrapped with some vinyl and stitched together by my mother. A waffle made from plywood and a hockey glove with an old belt wrapped around it.A baseball glove for my glove hand,a catchers chest protector,and a catchers mask and basketball knee pads on my arms,boy ,those were the best days!!!!! And then the big day came when we rented the rink!!! At 25.00 per hour !!

Thanks for posting that i just remembered the waffle cardboard all wrapped in electrical tape and tied to a hockey glove,
some kid had a goalie mask old timer looking heavy thick and like caramel looking thing. Those were the days for sure
we came home when the sun starting to go down, and went to bed early since we were out all day, and nevered bothered
by the cell ringing or the latest post on the blog.................

I'm a Flyers and Devil's Fan...

looks like the Red Wings are going for a home ice winning record 21 if they get it tonite !! And my Bruins are down 2-0 to the Rangers in the 2nd,Rally caps are on !!!!!

mistic, a good friend of mine in allentown once had a roomate who swore up and down that he saw the jersy devil once, but then again, he was on something illegal at the time

A heavy weight battle in St Louis, but the blues could not hang with the CHAMPS and lost a rare game at home,the Bruins needed this game,as they have been in a bit of a slump. 4-2 Bruins