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SPORTS FLASHBACK 1988: Huskies recall trip to Allan Cup finals
4 minute read Saturday, Apr. 20, 2024For six weeks in 1979, everyone in Steinbach was a hockey fan, and those who couldn’t get into an arena filled to capacity, listened to the Huskies games on radio. During the senior hockey playoffs that year, the Steinbach Huskies played their way into a national final and hockey news shared the front page with stories on the Red River Valley flood.
The Steinbach Huskies got together Saturday to relive a little of that magic, as they took on the current team in an exhibition game at the Steinbach Arena.
Later, there was time to renew old friendships and reminisce about the 1978-79 hockey season at a banquet across the street at the Steinbach Curling Club.
Fifteen members of the 1978-79 squad were on hand for the reunion and more than one hockey fan was prompted to suggest that with a couple of practises, they could still ice a pretty good hockey club.
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AS I SEE IT COLUMN: O.J. and Trump – Two peas in a (disgusting) pod
5 minute read Sunday, Apr. 21, 2024O.J Simpson is dead. The NFL star running back, NCAA Heisman trophy winner, advertising pitch man, and movie star is no longer with us.
Oh, and he also happened to be the central figure in the 1994 murder trial of the century, when he was accused of brutally killing his ex-wife and her friend. If you believe in an afterlife, given the overwhelming evidence of his guilt it’s pretty safe to say it’s really hot where O.J. is right now.
Trump always makes everything about himself, and so he of course used the news of O.J.’s death to talk about himself. Here is his verbatim quote from his failing social media site.
“The great O.J. Simpson used to play football with me. Not many people know that because I don’t like to boast. He could never outrun me, though – have you ever seen blisters on my feet? No blisters. He used to say: ‘Sir, you are a great runner, probably the best there ever has been. Also, thank you, sir, for playing ball with a black man.’ He had tears in his eyes that day.”
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6 minute read Wednesday, Apr. 17, 2024It wasn't easy, but the Steinbach Pistons will be playing in their third consecutive Manitoba Junior Hockey League (MJHL) Championship.
The Pistons took down the Blizzard in game seven of their semi-final series with a pair of second period goals the difference in a hotly contested series.
Cole Plowman, who started all seven games of the series for Steinbach recorded his first career MJHL shutout in the victory. It was a redemptive performance for the netminder, who let in two last-minute go-ahead goals on home ice earlier in the series.
"I wasn't really happy with my full performance over the series so it's really huge to get a game seven shutout," Plowman said after the game.
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