Displaying boxscores for All Leagues in 2013.
November 23, 2013
Every so often, Burton Hockey is treated to a special occasion where long-separated friends from across the province get together to celebrate the game and play an epic tournament in the process. We call these occasions supersessions, and we call the tournament the Fuller Cup.
When members of BUSH announced that ...
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Comments (3)November 11, 2013
Glorious sunshine scale: 3/10
Temperature scale: 9/10 (cool but not cold, ideal temps for hockey)
Perfect number of players scale: 9/10 (at least one sub for most of the session, best turnout in some time)
New players scale: 0/10
Return of long absent regulars scale: 8/10 (Riley and Nick both made their returns)
Evenness of ...
October 20, 2013
After one of its longest dry spells (well over 2 months) in recent memory, VRH would finally hit the pavement of Ambleside once again. Even so, the player turnout would be sparse with only 5 skaters. Sam Lam’s long awaited return from exile at Quadra Island, dealing with ...
September 29, 2013
Whenever newly-minted Burton Hall of Famer Chris Jackins returns to his homeland from Australia, hockey is a guarantee. It seems no other person has an ability to provoke Burton Hockey out of its lethargy like BUSH’s most experienced goaltender. Still, it came as quite the shock to your humble statistician ...
August 04, 2013
With an over-a-month long hockey drought and only a small session the week before that only happened due to the sheer force of will of the players involved (i.e., shorthanded and a non-typical goalie, Rob, willing to play net), VRH would finally see a proper full session once again. In ...
July 28, 2013
This would be a session in which two major events played out. The
first was Rob agreeing to play goal in lieu of half court. The second
was Ryan showing us how prolific he can be as a scorer. Perhaps it was
that his roller team is just hitting playoff form, but Ryan ...
June 30, 2013
30 June would be a rather interesting test for BUSH in 2013. The Canada Day long weekend forecast was calling for near-record highs coming off of a prolonged wet period, resulting in crushing humidity that may have scared off a few players. The disappointment of losing players today would be ...
June 23, 2013
Week two of the reborn BUSH season, and the momentum continues to build. The lone sunny day in a week of solid rain across Western Canada made for some oppressively hot conditions tonight, but no one cared. Not even late-night celebrating for Ryan Bateman’s 19th birthday could stop the roster ...
June 16, 2013
Glorious sunshine scale: 8/10
Temperature scale: 5/10 (a little on the warm/muggy side)
Perfect number of players scale: 3/10 (only 5 skaters today)
New players scale: 0/10
Return of long absent regulars scale: 0/10
Evenness of teams/series scale: 4/10 (teams were actually somewhat even, but all games save for one were blowouts)
Session intensity scale: 4/10
Session ...
June 16, 2013
Never underestimate the power of guilt, especially when the power is wielded by a man like Seamus O’Connor. On this, the occasion of his 32nd birthday, his lone wish was to provoke Burton United Socialist Hockey out of its long slumber and reignite the flame of roller hockey in the ...
June 09, 2013
Glorious sunshine scale: 9/10
Temperature scale: 7/10 (slightly too warm)
Perfect number of players scale: 9/10 (one sub on each team for most of the session)
New players scale: 7/10 (Neil Spencer's debut)
Return of long absent regulars scale: 7/10 (the return of long absent Stu Bell)
Evenness of teams/series scale: 5/10 (some close games ...
June 02, 2013
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May 26, 2013
Glorious sunshine scale: 2/10 (mostly solid cloud cover)
Temperature scale: 8/10
Perfect number of players scale: 9/10 (one sub on each team for most of the session)
New players scale: 0/10
Return of long absent regulars scale: 10/10 (the return of long absent Melvin and Justin's non-super session VRH debut)
Evenness of teams/series scale: 9/10 ...
May 20, 2013
Glorious sunshine scale: 5/10 (some filtered sun, but good to prevent overheating)
Temperature scale: 7/10 (slightly too warm)
Perfect number of players scale: 9/10 (one sub on each team for most of the session)
New players scale: 10/10 (Johanna Goodyear's debut. Also the first female player to grace the courts of Ambleside in ...
May 04, 2013
After more than a month without a session (due to a number of reasons including weather and lack of goalies), VRH would finally hit the pavement of Ambleside once again on hottest day of the year. Temps were expected to hit the low 20s by the water and ...
March 30, 2013
Glorious sunshine scale: 9/10 (most glorious sunshine of the year; minus 1 point for the sun not being high enough to cover the whole court, creating a slippery algae section near the far wall)
Temperature scale: 9/10 (almost perfect; just slightly too warm for some)
Perfect number of players ...
March 24, 2013
For too long, the rink at Burton’s John McCormack Memorial Park stood silent, alone; wistful for the days when it was the place for roller hockey in the Arrow Lakes instead of an empty sheet of slowly weathering asphalt. The past year saw the epicenter of Burton Hockey in the ...
March 17, 2013
Perhaps it was fate that a solid week of torrential downpours would cease and the skies would part to bring forth the glorious sun, on the very day a VRH session was scheduled. Perhaps then it was fate too that this would become one of the most significant sessions ...
March 09, 2013
The long rainy days during this week of rat race
Have rendered Vancouver a soggy, dreary place.
One can only float on the memories of days gone by,
When the sun shone strong, and the pavement was dry.
There was much struggle to get to the rink,
Traffic backed-up because of a bridge-climbing dink.
Most ...
February 10, 2013
It was a beautiful, sunny morning. The air was crisp and the streets were packed with people celebrating Chinese New Year. We snaked our way through traffic to the old, stagnant court. Long forgotten, it had been waiting many months for VRH to return. As if the court knew we ...