Junior Hockey Blog

While junior hockey is mostly overwith in the US, The memorial cup is going on up in canada. This is their National Championship- with 3 league champions and one wild card playing in the tournament. Rimouski, Quebec/ Ottawa, ontario/London,ontario/ and the defending champion Kelowna,B.C. Rockets playing in London Ontario. Thru round-robin play the Kelowna Rockets went 0-3 and are thru. Tonite Ottawa plays London for an automatic berth in the championship game on sunday nite. the loser of the Ottawa/London game must play a semi-final VS Rimouski on Saturday nite to get into the championship. Rimouski has Sidney Crosby, who is rumored to be the next Wayne Gretzky. We will see what happens up there the rest of the way. I would also like to comment on a new league that is forming, I believe they said it is called the Inland American Hockey Association. I know little more than what has been posted on glassrattler. According to the post their are franchises in Billings, Havre,and Great Falls, MT and Casper,WY and Lake Tahoe,CA. The only other thing that I have heard from one of my old college roomates who lives in Havre is that a guy that is in his church is telling people that he has been hired on as the Zamboni driver/ Team Chaplain. I grilled my old college roomate for more info. but since he is not a hockey fan he could not tell me anything more. The third thing I would like to comment on is nahlforum.com. It was similar to glassrattler but a slightly different crowd if I must say. It is too bad they shut it down. The jist I get is that the league told the folks running it to shut it down- which is a bummer-I cannot for the life of me understand why you would kill free publicity!!! I hope they do not shut down glassrattler!!! I enjoyed corresponding with many folks on nahlforum.com -- there was cuattherink from st. ste. marie Michigan,Phantom from Ohio,hollar13 from Fargo, Catapault from Bismarck, Marc Foster from Texas, master blaster from bozeman, hockey girl from bozeman, and init4laffs from Billings, and Alaska fan among many many others. Please forgive me if I left people out as I am sorry. I hope everyone has a Safe Memorial Day. -tm