The boys are moving up, the boys are moving up. I often heard myself repeating when reflecting upon the events of the past season. Saskatchewan Senior Hockey’s 1939–1940 season had been a frustrating year, yet it produced a satisfying and very rewarding ending.
A troublesome knee injury had dogged me since early January. Missing a couple weeks made it difficult to perform at the level the Regina faithful, and I, were accustomed to. Though, a wry smile had always crept across my face when I recalled the silence in the Yorkton arena when Regina scored the overtime goal ending the mighty Terrier’s playoff hopes. Regina’s story-book comeback would become a lasting heart breaking memory for the Yorkton fans and faithful.
Shorty Coombs And Kraeling Daze Fighting Terriers
REGINAN’S STORY-BOOK COMEBACK WILL LONG
BE REMEMBERED BY YORKTON TERRIER FANS
By DAVE DRYBURGH
Yorkton, March 14,
“Vic-Aces had to get all the best of the goal keeping and defensive work to make it against the raging Terriers, but the hero of the night was a stocky little winger. A Yorkton star until this season, George (Shorty) Coombs was the direct cause of the defeat of his old team-mates. He scored three goals, skating himself into exhaustion with his most telling performance in years and earned his reward a minute from the end when the Regina trainer half carried him to the dressing room. A crowd that had come to cheer Terriers to victory stood up and applauded the athlete who had turned the tables on them.”
During the past season, Doug Bentley had broken in with the Chicago Black Hawks and was soon to make a name for himself in the National Hockey League. His brother Max, the Saskatchewan Senior League scoring leader with the Saskatoon Quakers, had netted 37-goals and 14-assists in 32 games, and would join his brother and attend his first training camp with the Hawks the next season. Sid Abel had been called up to the NHL at mid-season, from the Indianapolis Capitals of the IAHL, and had gotten his first goal and a few assists while skating with the Detroit Red Wings. Elmer Lach, after being named the senior league M.V.P., had been signed by the Montreal Canadiens and would no longer be skating for the Moose Jaw Millers. Times were a changing.
I was also contemplating a change of scenery. Having been offered a contract to play during the upcoming season in Timmins Ontario gave me a couple of options to ruminate over. I had a decision to make, I could return to Regina and make another Allen Cup run, or reverse the adage, Go west young man, go west . . . and go east. I was in the prime of my career and the opportunity to ply my trade near Toronto and Detroit, was quite compelling. The boys are moving up, should I?
written by
Christine Renae Perpetua Charles
Enjoy the first pages from Perpetua who recounts her journey from beloved daughter, wife, and new mother until her house arrest and martyrdom. Over eighteen centuries ago, with her infant son at the breast and in her own hand, she authored the oldest known Latin writings by a Christian woman. Perpetua has written once again.
Enjoy the reflections from an author, who struggled to embrace life and her true voice. Difficult moments we endure in silence can often smother God’s love and grace within us. Silence often enhances anxiety, misery and more, and provocative pronouncements can contribute to the same. Reasoned responses, expressed quietly loud, are often the most elusive.
Enjoy the first pages of a new young family deciding which collectibles to buy. Dickens’ Village was our first choice, a choice that made our small children cry. For them Christmas was mostly about Santa, his reindeer and all the elves. Not an old English village to be displayed on our living room shelves.
The Coronavirus has delayed research for my father’s biography and his twenty year hockey career throughout Canada and the United States during the Golden Years of Senior Hockey. Enjoy a couple pages as a star athelete weighs his options when… “Times were a changing.”
A number of readers and fans of Christine have mentioned their disappointment that her own faith journey ended with Nikki, the last chapter. Surprise, surprise, Christine is planning to return; and she intends to bring along many old friends and is introducing a number of new ones in Abigail’s, A Little Piece of Heaven. Hello Olivia!