| Our first tournament in Florida be fore we renamed the team "Gray Blades" and what a Motley crew....Top left, John Soderberg from the Yukon, ex Hell's Angels guy that could barely skate, but nobody wanted to mess with him, even on our team!!...next is Larry Dallimore wearing the NHL Old timers Sweater officially given to him buyPeter Conacher!!..then there is John Jarman who scored most of our goals....Ed Batna who volunteered to go in net as we did not have a goalie for this tournament...next a friend of John Sudac and I do not remember his name....then we have Dr Bob.....bottom left is Dr Faulkner, Ronny Hurst who played for the Leafs in the mid 50's,,,me and John Sudac....and how did we do for our first start in Florida... well we beat Fort Erie 8 to 5 and then we won 6 to 1 against Central Ontario and lost to Winnipeg 2 to 3 in the last game of the opening round...so we advanced to the finals against the Florida Eldergators, featuring Rosie Paiement and many ex NHLers...... we were clobbered 10 to 2... big surprise!! |
