Displaying boxscores for Burton United Socialist Hockey in 2009.
December 14, 2009
It snowed another inch again. In fact, there were still a few odd flurries. And it was still minus-10. But that wasn’t going to stop BUSH. After the sour taste of the previous session, the gang was looking for one last winter epic. Every session ...
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Comments (24)December 09, 2009
Chilly, chilly history was made again today. BUSH put on the coldest session ever as it sunk down to minus-10 Celsius, breaking the longstanding record held by the infamous Calgary attempt of January 2003. Your humble statistician wasn’t able to get down to Burton today for this ...
December 01, 2009
The Arrow Lakes sky stood out stark blue in the cold air today. It was quite surreal to have no snow on the ground and a bright sky and yet still have a temperature of -2°C. Yes, BUSH went sub-zero for the first time today. Despite the ...
November 27, 2009
A healthy amount of sun was had today despite the crisp, cool 3°C temperature, another record low temperature for Burton Hockey. This was the third session in five days based around a core of Lee, Nathan, Seamus, Graeme and Justin. With Shem back from Sun Peaks, the stage was ...
November 24, 2009
As soon as we returned home from yesterday’s session, a check of the weather forecast indicated a break in the rain that would last long enough to get yet another session of Burton Hockey in. Sure enough, we awoke to a break in the clouds that let the sun ...
November 23, 2009
Leave it to Nathan to push BUSH farther into November outdoors than any other season. As soon as Lee got back from Hawaii, Nathan sent out the call and in just a matter of minutes a session was organised. The revolving door of goaltenders continued; this time Justin ...
November 09, 2009
After the anti-climax of Sunday, Nathan Robson refused to go out quietly for 2009. He organised yet another last-minute session for Monday; the fourth in eight days for BUSH. One last shot at epicness. It was a stripped-down session featuring four of Burton’s best skaters and two ...
November 08, 2009
Lee returned to organising duty, but once again it was Nathan Robson who saved the day for BUSH and kept the season pushing into November. When Graeme and Frankie found themselves ‘unable to play’ after the previous night’s activity (despite Troy being able to play having participated in the ...
November 05, 2009
Despite a forecast of rain, Nathan Robson was determined to get in another session of hockey. The rain held off through Thursday afternoon, and a 3-on-3 session was played in cloudy 5°C weather. Troy and Seamus returned to the circuit, and Shem was back to continue his strong ...
November 02, 2009
As autumn in the West Kootenay tends not to last very long, and the end of Daylight Savings Time eats another hour of daylight, chances are few and far between to get another BUSH session in this season before the snow falls. With the sky crisp but nothing falling ...
October 20, 2009
Series 1: Lee – Joe – Nathan – Lyle vs. Seamus – Troy – Graeme – Shem
Game 1: 5-2 Seamus
Game 2: 5-4 Seamus
Team Seamus takes both, although the second game was much closer after Joe made the switch to new blades, the first pair of which he had on ...
October 04, 2009
Terryn stepped up and organized a session. The first day in months the temperature has been perfect for hockey. Making the trip to Burton with only seven people I dropped in on Lyle, (whose dial up internet makes him constantly inaccessible by phone) who agreed to come play.
First ...
September 15, 2009
Much to the joy of the entire valley populace, Seamus O’Connor is back for the rest of the season. Hockey, thus, was a no-brainer today, as the BUSH crew headed down to a store-less Burton, BC for a muggy afternoon session. Not only was it sunny, there was ...
September 11, 2009
After a week-and-a-half of frustration, BUSH returned Friday with 2-on-2 action at ALHS@McCormack. Ben de Wit now on loan to VRH until April put a damper on the numbers, but Justin Gordon’s triumphant return from the coast got the crew back together again for a rare weekday afternoon session. ...
August 30, 2009
Today began on an ominous note with the news that BUSH mainstay K.J. O’Connor was in a serious car accident in the early hours of the morning which will probably sideline him for over a year. Our thoughts are with him and his family at this time.
Killer mid-30s heat ...
August 23, 2009
After a well-deserved week off for the BUSH crew following the longest session in history last week. One can imagine the excitement when it was released to the public that a long-lost friend of Burton Hockey would be making his return after six years-in goal of all places. ...
August 16, 2009
About three weeks ago, while thinking up plans and dreams for the much-bandied-about ‘DecaSession’ in 2010 to celebrate Burton Hockey’s tenth anniversary, the suggestion of a BUSH SuperSession for this season was brought up. Lee Orr went to work conceptualising and organising, and the weekend of 15-16 August was ...
August 10, 2009
One of the more unique sessions in a long time started ignominiously enough with a rotating door of goaltenders doing battle against the all-time goaltending champion, but by the end of the evening, unexpected goaltending history was made for the all the right reasons.
BUSH has no shortage of players, but ...
August 06, 2009
Even when nothing seems to be on the horizon this year, hockey somehow manages to happen. Lee may be taking a break from organising for the moment, but Ben stepped up to the plate and put together a youthful session featuring two highly-touted rookies (Taylor Reitmeier and Luke ...
July 29, 2009
When Lee Orr moved Thursday’s session up to Wednesday, Terryn Stenseth had a surprise of his own, as he touted the arrival of a rookie defensive powerhouse to rival anyone Burton’s seen to date. Sure enough, Brad Gibson lived up to the hype, as he and nine of BUSH’s ...
July 26, 2009
Despite two days of sudden and massive storms in the Arrow Lakes valley, the skies were kind to Burton tonight. Not a drop was felt on Archives Arena, merely tears of frustration at Seamus being forty-five minute late for the second time in his last three sessions. He ...
July 21, 2009
Today’s session began with temperatures in the upper thirties and the players soaked in sweat before the first game even began. Jesse Martin made himself player number 116 with his debut today. It would prove to be interesting today as the four all-time leading goaltenders (K.J., Terryn, Seamus ...
July 14, 2009
On the heels of the premiere of Burton Hockey Tonight, another revolution occurred in BUSH tonight. Lee Orr and Nathan Robson got together yesterday, scrounged together assorted bits of plywood, signage and pressboard from the dump, sawed them into suitable sizes, and laid the foundation for the long-dreamed appearance ...
July 12, 2009
A goaltending battle for the ages ensued tonight at John McCormack Memorial Park with rookie sensation Shem ‘ShemWow!’ Hanna taking on battle-hardened veteran Justin Gordon (a.k.a. David Government, a.k.a. Gordongo). A cloudy, muggy atmosphere enveloped the rink in darkness and sweat all session, but it didn’t slow the goalies ...
July 09, 2009
After last Thursday’s three-game session, the BUSH gang intended to get a larger number of games in today. They were somewhat successful, but killer goaltending from two of Burton’s best dashed those hopes for the most part. After a sluggish start in net this season, K.J. was out ...
July 02, 2009
The return of Seamus and Graeme for a few short days was cause enough to organise a Thursday session. Throw in Nathan Wiebe, Oliver, Ben and Lee, and you have the most positionally-sound line-up of skaters ever fielded in a single session. Shem declared his groin healed enough ...
June 28, 2009
Today's BUSH session featured scorching temperatures and the 47th player in the league this year in Nathan Wiebe. The statsman was sorely missed. Troy also suited up the pads for his first full goalie session ever.
Series 1:
Lee - Shem - Kyle - Mitch - Lyle vs. ...
June 21, 2009
For the second straight session, it threatened to rain on BUSH’s parade. The sky was dark grey all day (an expected visit from VRH’s Steve Weatherhead didn’t materialise when he became convinced it would pour), but ultimately not one drop came down on John McCormack Park. The cool ...
June 17, 2009
Mother Nature wreaked havoc on BUSH Wednesday. Lee had a session line-up ready to roll when a fair-sized storm rolled into the valley mid-afternoon. Rushing to judgement after a phone call from an unnamed chain-smoking goaltender, the session was called off at 4:30, only to be reactivated 20 ...
June 14, 2009
It was well-known coming into Sunday’s session that a bloated number of players was likely. How to deal with it was the issue. Ultimately the year-2000 stand-by of tournaments was discarded in favour of four-on-four, and the gamble paid off. Still, arrivals were staggered so as to ...
June 11, 2009
Another amazing session at John McCormack tonight with eight of Burton’s brightest lights all on full display. No stinkers here, just a relentless two-hour, five-game epic that left the entire Burton crew exhausted and happy in what, despite its length, was probably the defining session of the season so ...
June 09, 2009
Today marked the annual return trek of Stefan Klopp and Oliver Koth-Kappus to BUSH. The goal: to play as much hockey as possible. It was a relatively stacked line-up, and the teams we had (for the first six games, anyway) were some of the most even teams we ...
June 07, 2009
It was an admittedly odd lineup of players today in Burton, with BUSH’s oldest (Lyle and Shem) playing some of Burton’s youngest (Dane, Mitch Detta and the debuting Mitch Zorn). Yes, Old School fans, it was BUSH’s own version of Mitchapalooza today. Throw in a battle for the ...
May 31, 2009
At least fourteen players’ names were bandied about for this session. Now, you know as well as I do that not all of those players would show, which made it all the more interesting to see who would be sitting in the chairs when the music stopped. When ...
May 28, 2009
A late night session organized (to use the word in the most perverted sense) at the last minute resulted in a two on two slugfest between Justin, Lee, Mitch, and Ben with KJ and Laird in net. KJ has officially sworn off playing goal in two on two ...
May 25, 2009
Lee Orr wanted to show himself that a rib injury would not hold him back. Kyle Grenier wanted to put himself in the middle of the battle for the scoring championship. Both of those feats were accomplished today in Burton.
Much haggling and phoning from Lee produced a very ...
May 18, 2009
Kyle (Grenier) took the bull by the horns and organized hockey. I offered to drive the gear down, take pictures and keep stats. This session saw yet another rookie, Ryan, Kyle's brother. Ryan's son also helped keep stats and should receive honourable mention. Another future Burton ...
May 09, 2009
Seamus O’Connor was only in the Arrow Lakes for three days before he had to return to work. He knew he only had one shot to play Burton Hockey this spring. In an epic move, Seamus organised a sort of BUSH reunion session; only one player (Andrew) had ...
April 21, 2009
More rookies joined the BUSH class of 2009 today at McCormack park as Kyle Grenier continued his reign of terror over the Burton nets. Debuting in net was the ever-enthusiastic Joe Leonard; debuting on Justin Gordon’s wreck of a pair of old skates was New Denver’s Nick Reitmeier. ...
April 18, 2009
After two delays in two days, BUSH played its third session of 2009 today in Burton. Terryn Stenseth became the second player to debut in Burton Hockey today; he may be Burton’s youngest player in quite some time, but his skills in net were already well-known to the McCormack ...
April 14, 2009
One of the most intense sessions in recent BUSH history was played today in Burton, featuring three grinding, exhausting 3-on-3 games followed by a freewheeling, fast-paced pair of 2-on-2 games, all featuring amazing passing and, above all, two outstanding goaltenders pulling saves out of their nether regions, sometime literally.
A newly ...
April 05, 2009
Lee Orr’s main mission for 2009 was to reorganise Burton United Socialist Hockey and make its tenth season the best one yet. A year’s worth of rust was shaken off today, and if today’s action was any indication, BUSH will be firing on all cylinders in 2009. A ...