End of the Seasons

Winter Hockey is done for 2026.  I played my last game in the Vintage league on Tuesday March 24th.  This level of hockey is much slower and more relaxed than the beer league hockey I have been playing with my Renegades team.  After a couple of seasons, I'm now getting to know a bunch of the guys a little better and really enjoying this.  I will be playing in the Spring/Summer season which starts in early April and runs until the end of June.  It will be mostly a bunch of different players that I will play with for the summer, though there are a handful that I know and have played with before.  I will be away in Saskatchewan for some Beer Parlour Project outings at the beginning of April, and will miss the first game.  But I expect to make most of the games after that.  We play every Thursday morning at 11:15AM.

The Renegades just wrapped up our season in the Alberta Men's Hockey League.  We made it to the playoffs after finishing the regular season in 5th place.  We played the best of three quarter final against the fourth place Gamblers, and beat them in two straight.  Then we moved on to the best of three semi-final against the first place Outlaws.  We took it to three games but came up short and did not advance to the final.  I am now scrambling to see if I can get enough guys to commit to summer hockey with the Renegades, though its not looking very good.  The summer season in this league runs from May until August.

Of course outside hockey in Nordegg has been finished for a few weeks already.  The mild spell in mid March ruined the ice and its too late in the season to consider working on it, despite the recent cold snap.  March sure is going out like a lion this year.  There was about a foot of snow in late March and it has been very cold.  It bodes well for the upcoming wildfire season.

These are two of the retro jerseys that I wore when I played outside hockey this winter.  One is a Montreal Canadiens - #9 Maurice Richard.  The other is a Charleston Chiefs #16 - one of the Hanson brothers from the movie Slapshot.