Hey, for all you fans of the Pembroke Lumber Kings and the Central Junior A league, Hockey Canada is offering a webcast for all games from the RBC Royal Bank Cup at $6.95 a pop.
It can be reached via http://www.hockeycanada.ca. The Lumber Kings play the host Prince George Spruce Kings on Saturday at 10 p.m. Eastern in the first game of the nine-day tournament.
We've covered one RBC (2002 in Halifax) and just missed on a second. The Portage Terriers were the Western representative in 2005, the season after myself and partner-in-crime in the Daily Graphic sports department, Keith Borkowsky, had each moved on the bigger and brighter things.
This is all part of the Sager saga... left Halifax in 2002 months before it hosted the World Junior Hockey Championship (and the Brier to boot) .... left the great province of Manitoba months before the '05 World Juniors were played in neighbouring North Dakota (a one-time Daily G. colleague, Chris Kitching, even popped up in a crowd shot during a TSN broadcast) ... left the Reformer early in '06 when it seemed like the local shinny concern, the Simcoe Storm, had a shot to win the all-Ontario Junior C title (they lost in the provincial semi-final, still the best result in club history). Within two months of coming to Ottawa, the Renegades closed up shop.
Long story short, so long as Ottawa still has Neate Sager to kick around, it might not bode well for the Senators' Stanley Cup chances.
That's all for now. Send your thoughts to neatesager@yahoo.ca.
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Hahaha...and you and keith continue to carry that legacy with you - - aka Keith in Brandon and the Wheatkings can't make it past the second round in the WHL this year.
And speaking of the RBC, I had the opportunity in Yorkton in 1999. Boy, was it a blast.
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