Displaying boxscores for All Leagues in 2010.
December 24, 2010
Today Burton Hockey welcomed back a grand old tradition of the early years of the game: the vaunted Christmas session. There would be no Burton Hall today; we would take to the asphalt of the Nakusp Secondary School parking lot. It was a nice mesh of old and ...
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Comments (0)December 05, 2010
Today’s session wasn’t fantastic, or epic, or bathed in glorious sunshine. It was marked by ailing ankles, broken balls, and mangled masks, as well as the absence of several notable skaters. The first game saw Eric, Sam and Dom square off against Rob, Vince, Ryno and Alex in some ...
November 28, 2010
With VRH's longest absence in nearly half a year, things were once again not looking good as blizzard hit the Lower Mainland on the Thursday prior, dumping nearly a half-foot of snow. Luckily, the intense coastal system also brought warmer temperatures and a plethora of rain which worked effectively ...
November 06, 2010
Despite the ground being a little wet, today's session would see the return of the intensity/defensive play that VRH has grown used to. The first game in fact, would last almost an hour and see both goalies face close to 50 shots each. Both goalies were exceptional today, ...
October 30, 2010
With Bron out and an unresponsive Alex, goaltending once again became an issue for this session. However, Sam saved the day by first getting Nick to come-out, and then when Nick didn't show, by strapping on the pads himself (thereby forfeiting his perfect 1.000 save percentage).
Despite the forecast of ...
October 16, 2010
With 2 goalies, decent numbers and a forecast of glorious sunshine for Saturday, the session was confirmed late Thursday night. After a couple more confirmations and a couple surprise shows, by the time Saturday afternoon rolled around, the numbers had ballooned to a massive 11 skaters. The only ...
October 10, 2010
If the first day of a Burton Championship Weekend is about league pride, the second day is about pure, unadulterated fun hanging out with friends old and new. The torrential downpour of Saturday had left the Lower Mainland that morning, giving way to bright sunshine and warm temperatures for ...
October 09, 2010
Six months after the greatness of the DecaSession and the first-ever Burton Championship Weekend, it was time for round two Saturday. This time, however, it would take place on VRH’s home turf at Ambleside Park, as the western circuit looked to claim the second Fuller Cup.
In the five days ...
October 02, 2010
This session would see our 2 regular goalies back in action on an unseasonably warm sunny day in October. A variety of 3-on-3 games were played (you can find full teams and scores in the game analysis section) until Marcus and Tony had to leave. Though we ...
September 29, 2010
One ball, rookie goalie, bunch of broken wheels and depleted numbers led to
this mid week session. Brothers O'Connor, brothers Orr and brothers from
another mother Olsens would compete today as Burton attempts to tune up for
the Thanksgiving bloodfest scheduled next week.
The first series would feature Graeme and ...
September 25, 2010
Barely an hour before this session was set to start, it was teetering dangerously on the edge of collapse. With a nice break in the weather and enough players for a full session, only one element was missing: a second goalie. A couple people did volunteer to play ...
September 17, 2010
For the first time in nearly two months, John McCormack Park was graced with something it rarely sees these days: actual 3-on-3 hockey. It was an evenly-balanced line-up on paper, and that’s exactly what it turned out being this Friday afternoon.The only real unfortunate part of the days was ...
September 11, 2010
Another BUSH session organised, cancelled, and reclaimed at the last minute. With K.J. and Nathan back in town this weekend, and a last-minute confirmation from Golden Joe, another short-but-sweet two-on-two session was to be had this afternoon. It was a race to see how much hockey could ...
September 11, 2010
For the first time in a very long time we had a session without any of our dedicated goalies (Dom, Alex or Bron); we can only surmise that they were too busy burning Qu'rans on this particular day (Note: this is a joke in reference to a radical pastor ...
September 05, 2010
This session began with a bit of scare, with everyone having arrived and no Alex in sight, we began to get a little worried. Then Stefan received a phone call from Al saying he had only just seen the confirmation e-mail and was currently busy with something else. ...
August 29, 2010
The day began with a thick cover of dark ominous clouds, but with no precipitation falling and the ground dry as a bone, hockey naturally was on. Ironically, we were soon wishing for some more of those thick clouds, as the sun’s heat would scorch us for most ...
August 29, 2010
Lee Orr: Riskiest session ever? We drove down through the pouring rain with only 4 guys, gambling that we could get Lyle, Shem would still be in Burton, and it wasn't pouring rain at McCormack like everywhere else. At the viewpoint it was raining so hard Seamus advised pulling ...
August 22, 2010
VRH’s longest absence in many a month was finally broken on this day; not without a few hurdles though. As has been too common of an occurrence lately, the weather forecast a couple days beforehand was absolutely wrong, calling for showers on what turned out to be clear sunny ...
August 02, 2010
This day started out with a bottle of Tequila…and I do say “day” because it was literally the next day by the time the first phase of the beer brewing process was completed and Rob began to pour us shot after shot. Naturally, once the bottle was done ...
July 27, 2010
It was another humid, suffocating day today in the Arrow Lakes. Fortunately, with thundershowers on the way, there would only be about a game’s worth of killer heat (which even had your humble statistician dripping with sweat). It was Chris’ final session before heading back to his current ...
July 25, 2010
After a ten-day break for Nakusp Music Fest and the subsequent recovery from Nakusp Music Fest, it was once again time to pack up the lunch pails and head back to work at McCormack Park. As we departed Nakusp, the weather station reported 32 degrees Celsius in the air ...
July 25, 2010
Today started differently than any other VRH session before. For the first time ever there were no ex-BUSH players involved with the session at the beginning. The first 4 games saw Pat, J-Bo, Sam and 2 new players named Andrew Lee and Nickita Dempsyanev play in some Pat-dominated 2-on-2 ...
July 15, 2010
It was another in the recent series of short-but-sweet sessions in the sweltering July heat today in Burton, as Thursday's session was a last shot for play before the chaos and obliteration sure to occur this weekend at Nakusp Music Fest. Over a dozen names were bandied about for ...
July 12, 2010
”Third time’s a charm” would apply to today's session as Chris Jackins would
finally suit back up and take the net he long owned in Burton. He does have a
major complaint, however, as the Shelbyville moniker of New Denver has graced his
honoured court. He would strap on the ...
July 09, 2010
"So Chris Jackins and Sheena Rutko are getting married."
"Where at?"
"Her parents, Paul and Linda's."
"That's across from the rink, can we play hockey?"
Last minute wedding preparations were put on hold Friday night for the game we love. Burton Hockey would not be in the cards for the groom tonight as ...
July 07, 2010
Today was relatively new territory for Vancouver Roller Hockey: an attempt at a weekday session. Even with a 6pm start time, it still had potential to be a decently long session thanks to the long summer evening. Certainly, even at 8pm, it was sweltering summer heat. Turnout ...
July 04, 2010
From the time that it was announced that there would be a stag for Burton Hockey stalwart Chris Jackins some months ago, it was hoped that at some point during the weekend a hockey session could be fitted in somewhere. With the stag being held in Sun Peaks, it ...
June 27, 2010
With Fridays session being way too hot, Sundays was planned to start at 7. A last minute addition resulted in the long awaited return of Logan Marchischuk or "the Cheese" to the nets of Burton Hockey. Arriving first, Logan donned the pads and was in the net faster ...
June 25, 2010
Burton Hockey comes and goes in waves, it seems. A dry month of June exploded last week as both leagues roared back into action with high-scoring sessions. A perfect storm would culminate Friday as one of the most concentrated all-killer-no-filler line-ups in Burton history, let alone BUSH history, ...
June 20, 2010
Call Sunday the wedding session. It was the continuation of Tony's
stag, which featured the to-be-newly-wed playing in a dress. As well,
Pat and Alex were a little worn thin from celebrating their brothers
wedding the night before. Despite the celebrations, everyone showed up
to play, and those who you thought would have lost ...
June 18, 2010
Nathan didn't have school and set about organizing hockey. With 6 regulars, we arrived to some light drizzle, at which point KJ assured us it was "the edge of storm" and not to worry. As sticks were tossed and the first game commenced the rain increased and the ...
June 06, 2010
With three of our mainstay regulars (Klopp, Ollie & Barlow) out of town, it was no surprise that this would be the most difficult session to get going in ages. With spotty showers around the Lower Mainland Sunday morning, an e-mail was sent to see what the conditions looked ...
May 24, 2010
Basking in the glow of a warm early-summer day to finish off the May long weekend, BUSH almost didn’t get off the ground today. The session was cancelled at noon, only for Nathan to track down Brad and Shem twenty minutes later and get the session reactivated. They ...
May 22, 2010
With many people out of town for the long weekend (aside from Rob who was once again “fixing his fence”) this would be the smallest session in ages. A late departure by the Barlow caravan left the poor goalies sitting alone at the rink for well over half-an-hour wondering ...
May 16, 2010
After being killed by heat the past couple of days, an attempt was made today on a cloudy, muggy Arrow Lakes spring day. All the moisture of the West Kootenay and all the heat of the Okanagan. Thank goodness for those clouds. It would periodically sprinkle rain ...
May 15, 2010
With the beautiful weather in the Lower Mainland recently we knew we'd have large numbers for the session today, so a larger rink was a must. Rob had suggested a new rink, Kirkstone Park in North Vancouver, which looked to be the perfect size (i.e. small QE rink-size), so ...
May 08, 2010
What an amazing day today was. First real summer-feeling day of the
year, with the temperature pushing easily close to 18 degrees. With a
cool breeze coming off the ocean it was pretty much ideal hockey
weather. We all arrived at Ambleside at 11am but, like most days, things
didn't get going until closer ...
May 08, 2010
With numbers increasingly hard to come by we managed to scratch together another 2 on 2 session with the last minute appearance of Shem, over for the weekend from Kelowna. The combination of the warmest day for hockey yet and six old vets resulted in a grueling 5 hour ...
May 01, 2010
An odd mix of sun and cloud greeted the crew today. With these small line-ups as of late, it produces some interesting hockey, and it gives players the opportunity to play around and experiment. Thus, we were in for quite a ride today as Lee announced he would ...
May 01, 2010
With a slightly later start time due to the forecast of morning showers, as well as a late departure (due quite possibly to the numerous chalices of beer consumed the night before), we didn't get started until close to 1pm on this day. Right around that time though, the ...
April 25, 2010
A smaller Ambleside session was played for the first time in a while
for VRH. The day began with hockey being all but canceled. Stefan
looked outside, saw pouring rain, and sent out the cancellation email.
Within 10 minutes he received emails from Alex, Dom, Marcus and Tom
all saying the north shore had ...
April 24, 2010
Three weeks in the grand scheme is nothing. Three weeks in the modern era of BUSH is a lifetime. Chalk it up to fatigue, DecaSession hangover, real life getting in the way, mismatched schedules, whatever – it all resulted in the longest break since Christmas for the eastern ...
April 18, 2010
With the initial estimate of a fairly large session we decided to give Queen E another crack, but we would soon find out that this was indeed a grave mistake. As we arrived, foot hockey players had already taken the small rink, but the large rink was available so we ...
April 11, 2010
During the planning stages it appeared that we'd have possibly our largest VRH session ever. However, due to the Master Bladers rolling through their playoff competition and having a game immediately scheduled the next day (Sunday) our numbers were suddenly in jeopardy. However, to start the session ...
April 03, 2010
DecaSession, Day Two. After the epic battle of Friday, Saturday would be all about fun. But that didn’t mean there wasn’t team competition today. Everyone was sore, but not sore enough to not play. Most of the VRH crew was based out of Fauquier this weekend, ...
April 02, 2010
In August 2005, seven Arrow Lakes ex-pats, all veterans of Burton United Socialist Hockey, inaugurated a new league of Burton Hockey. Initially, the new league struggled to avoid short, half-court sessions, but much like the little engine that could, it grew slowly and steadily, adding dozens of Lower Mainland ...
March 31, 2010
BUSH snuck one in through the grey wetness today. Looking for one last skating session before Friday’s big to-do, the crew was raring to go Wednesday. BUSH sweaters would finally be arriving later that day; just a bit late for today’s session. There was a bit of ...
March 27, 2010
Today was the last session for VRH to warm up for the big DecaSession scheduled for next week in Burton. We had a group of 12 players confirmed for the day, and decided it would be best to practice in a larger rink. We decided to go with Queen ...
March 27, 2010
With just six days to go before the biggest weekend in Burton Hockey history, it was time for the final preparations. The BUSH sweaters arrive Monday to go with the already-arrived VRH jerseys, but that’s not the only fashion news. The ALHS Archives Arena got a makeover this ...
March 20, 2010
After weeks of incessant rain and 3 or 4 wet, sloppy sessions in a row, we finally had a few days of uber-glorious sunshine, and advantage of it we did take. Initially, with the Master Bladers having league games both Saturday and Sunday, we figured it would be ...
March 19, 2010
With the daylight savings time change this past weekend, BUSH is now back in the window of opportunity for evening sessions. This will also help get the 9-to-5ers and school-age players back onto the court. Friday would be the first such session this year (3:30 pm departure time), ...
March 13, 2010
What can you say about today? It was wet and sloppy outside, and so
was much of the play throughout the day. Bad bounces, balls breaking
(close to thirty dollars in zero-bounce balls), own goals. It was not pretty hockey in the least, yet despite all the ugliness we managed to play ...
March 13, 2010
The rain didn’t stick around very long. It was right back to bright sun in Burton Saturday. It was sunny in our hearts as well, because we had our beloved enigmatic legendary goaltender Lyle Detta back in the fold. He was originally scheduled to do battle against ...
March 12, 2010
It was right back to work for BUSH as sessions keep flying out of the woodwork. Today, however, would not see sunshine. Despite the gang holding out for the usual Burton sunshine break once they rounded the corner at Arrow Park, it was a downpour all day. ...
March 10, 2010
Sun in the skies, but sadness in our hearts. And, no, it has nothing to do with Corey Haim. It is confirmed: Troy Waldron has packed up and left for Alberta (fingers crossed for a DecaSession return). Don’t worry; you can always cheer yourself up by watching ...
March 07, 2010
Saturday was a glorious sunshine filled day that was perfect for an
all-day massive session. Unfortunately the Master Bladers had a game
on Saturday, and most people couldn’t make it, so we played Sunday.
Sunday was a cold and drizzly, yet typical, March Vancouver day. The
wetness was no deterrent for hockey however ...
March 05, 2010
Back-to-back action from BUSH. Another bright, shining spring day for the crew to revel in. Troy Waldron would be making his return to goal for 2010 against fellow rival for the all-time goaltending title Seamus O’Connor. Nick Sundstrom would be back for his sophomore stint along with ...
March 04, 2010
You know you’ve been spoiled when just four days with no hockey feels like an eternity. Coming off of a February that was the second-busiest month in league history and a finish of four sessions in seven days, BUSH was back at it again Thursday for a 12:30 departure ...
February 27, 2010
An odd but intriguing session tonight. Lee was resting his arm and catching up on work, while Seamus would miss his first games of 2010 out-of-town for the day. This left organising up to Justin, who put together a 2-on-2 lineup that would help showcase two of the ...
February 25, 2010
Starting an hour earlier on another sunny day in Burton had everyone in a good mood off the bat. Of course, with the DecaSession looming just five weeks away, much conversation was had about that with epithets such as ‘League of Klass’ and ‘Vancouver Roller Polo’ being directed at ...
February 23, 2010
It was a dark day to be a goaltender in BUSH Tuesday, for the league recruited two players who, if you created a list of the talent available in the Arrow Lakes that hadn’t joined in on Burton Hockey to this point, would be right at the top of the ...
February 21, 2010
Today brought us a session where we had absolutely no idea what would happen, or even who would make it happen, let alone whether or not it would work once it did. Shem Hanna, goaltending ace of note, was about to bow out of BUSH for now as he ...
February 20, 2010
The day prior, with only 7 players confirmed and the session in serious jeopardy, who would have ever thought that this would turn out to be the most significant session in the history of Burton Hockey? This would be a day that would not only see one or two ...
February 13, 2010
Sun! We couldn’t believe our eyes. It was already gearing up to be a good session, and the golden disc in the sky made it that much better. The best surprise of all would already be waiting for us at the rink, however, as BUSH realised a ...
February 11, 2010
It was a decidedly impromptu session today, with some of the same old faces but in a most irregular arrangement. To be sandwiched in between Tuesday’s 4-on-4 histrionics and this weekend’s planned 10-man session would be a hastily-arranged 2-on-2 set with the big news that Kyle Grenier was returning ...
February 09, 2010
Shem Hanna came back to Burton Tuesday coming off of one of his worst career performances and looking to get back in the swing of things. The task would be made more interesting by the fact that it would be the first 4-on-4 session of the season for BUSH. ...
February 06, 2010
The weather forecast got progressively better throughout the week, and by the time it was hockey day in Vancouver we were greeted with just about the perfect hockey climate (partly sunny, partly cloudy, and about 10 degrees). As we had only 10 people confirmed the evening before, we decided ...
February 06, 2010
There was a real sense of anticipation surrounding today’s session. The impeding war between BUSH and VRH has the blood of the players flowing, and today’s session was planned days in advance (a rarity in a league where games are often organised minutes in advance). However, everyone was ...
February 02, 2010
In this most meteorologically-pitiful winter of 2009-10 in British Columbia, our one solace through the wet, unseasonably warm and constantly overcast season has been the ability to play roller hockey almost at will. Even after the toll taken on the players yesterday, they were all chomping at the bit, ...
February 01, 2010
Another foggy early year day in Nakusp was escaped today as the crew returned to beautiful Burton to kick off this second month of the new year. The usual OchoOcho, Lee, Nathan, Seamus, Shem and Alan were joined by the returning Graeme and Troy Waldron's first session of the year. ...
January 31, 2010
There was a very valuable lesson learned in VRH today, namely that our players are willing to play in very dismal conditions, and even when conditions are horrid, they come out in spades.
Today was a colossal session at VRH; maybe not stats-wise (albeit I am sure Pat did very well), ...
January 28, 2010
From the rust-brown hulk of a ’78 Thunderbird stepped two returning young stars to the pavement of Burton, insurgent firebrands ready to reclaim hard-earned spots as Burton regulars. At a combined age of 34, Mitch Detta and Terryn Stenseth made their season debuts in BUSH today as the gang ...
January 27, 2010
It was a cold and overcast day. Watsy and Alan made their 2010 debut, and the hockey gear was in true BUSH league form. The only stick Seamus could find in Nakusp was this diminutive junior that left him with about 3 feet of reach. Alan also ...
January 24, 2010
VRH continues to get games in during this very mild January. As well, it continues to be co-ed friendly, with Shaylin's girlfriend Monika Nymeyer getting into the action today. All in all, we had enough for 3-on-3 today with a sub on each side and a return back to the ...
January 21, 2010
Back again with the quickness, Burton fires off back -to-back sessions to counter VRH! Fired up and ready to roll, reigning MVP and recently named captain of BUSH Lee Orr returned to the rink today just one day late from his off season and what a return. Seamus ...
January 20, 2010
It was a cold Tuesday morning in mid January when Nathan Robson called my house. The temperature was a balmy 2 degrees and I had just woke up. Nathan wanted to go down to Burton and clear off the rink figuring there would not be much to do, I ...
January 16, 2010
Ed. note: Finally…
Sandwiched in between days of perpetual rain we finally received a gift from the Gods, a gloriously sunny Saturday (the first one in well over a month). Initially the session appeared to be in jeopardy as we had only one goaltender confirmed; luckily J-Bo came through in ...
January 10, 2010
It is usually never good to start the day being woken up by a distress call due to a server failure, especially after being out late the night before at Jordan's place. However, as I crawled into my living room and looked outside, there was a brightness to the dull ...