Junior Hockey Delivers the Goods

 It’s an undeniably great scene. Early in Season 2 of the generally exceptional Disney+ drama The Bear, pain-in-the-ass semi-main character Richie Jerimovich sits in the basement of the tumbling down, soon to be demolished and renovated restaurant he and ‘cousin’ Carmy Berzatto run, lamenting the state of his life. Richie

Ottawa’s Off-Season Won’t be Dull

 “If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.” • Moms around the globe   Well, if we followed up on the quote, there wouldn’t be a whole heck of a lot to this column then would there? Picking apart the Ottawa Senators’ season is akin to putting the

OHL’s Branch Checks Out With Plenty of Pluses

 What do you think when you hear the name . . . Dave Branch? Hockey fights, saving remote media members from a slew of bracing and dull winters as well as hot stoving in Ottawa come to mind from this end of the couch. More? A great hockey man and

Lance Galbraith: Ottawa’s ultimate warrior gone too soon

 This one hits like a ton of bricks. My first season covering the Ottawa 67’s for the Ottawa Sun was the first time I met Lance Galbraith. It was the fall of 1999 and I’d just spent the past 10 years in Owen Sound writing and broadcasting about the hometown

The best of the best in the OHL

 Above: Brian Kilrea was the coach of the Ottawa 67's for 33 seasons.  So, I’m pounding away on the treadmill at the gym inside the Kanata rec. complex staring at the wall Sunday afternoon. Due to COVID, all the elevated TV’s are turned off (because, apparently, COVID and TV’s just don’t