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This was our famous trip to Montreal  (Circa 1990 ) on a bus wth a keg of draught. That is our adopted coach with the hat (also our bus driver) The year doc Bob accepted 3 pair in liars dice! We were half in the bag for our first game Friday night and Hursty got his 3 penalties on successive shifts to earn a game ejection. I am sure lots more happened but that is all I remember.
 

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 2007 The Gray Blades and their Brides attend a Leaf game at Rick's box at  the ACC

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 Lots of controversy though for our last trip to Daytona. Rob Hamilton couldn't make it so Warren filled in. We had 3 lines and 5 D, at least in the picture, but not for the games as one of our stars decided to sleep in the parking lot. At  Sho-gun , the Japanese restaurant Frank Soave and a few of the Blades voted to use the money we made from the tournaments we hosted to pay for the meal as the majority of the team was there. When Rob Hamilton found out, he had a shit conniption , which led to the beginning of the great divide or the Gray Glades schism. We won somehow even with Warren in net!!!

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 1987  our first trip to Daytona. The next year we penned the Gray Blades name, but for this trip we borrowed Ron Craig's Sweaters .We had only 2 lines and 3D...and Ed Batna volunteered to go in net for us as we did not have a goalie. Craig also sent his pal John Soderburgh from the Yukon to join us, who may have uttered 3 words the whole time he was there. We had 3 other Johns;  Sudac, Jarman, Faulkner. We had ex Leaf Ron Hurst to help the cause. I believe we won one of the 3 games , but I do remember the Florida Eldergators with Rosey Paiment pounded us 9 to 2. I do not remember the guy who is beside Doc Wilkinson.This was our first trip of 7 to Daytona 1987 to 1993. We  have 3 nice trophies for our effort. Willy Dymon and Frank Soave both have one and I think John Sudac has the other.

 Larry is the Catcher and Stone is ready to pound one.....circa 1981... at our annual (now defunct) Grand Bend Baseball game.....

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 At the Daytona Beach Classic Circa 1992...... we won that year

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 Gray Blades in Vegas circa 2007