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Lumber Kings 2022-23 Schedule Released-Season Begins September 22 in Cornwall
The Pembroke Lumber Kings will kick off their new season on September 22 in Cornwall, their first of 55 regular season games. The Central Canada Hockey League recently released its 2022-23 schedule which has the Kings playing their home opener on Sunday, September 25 against the Carleton Place Canadians. Opening night will be a 7...Continue reading→
A Special Fraternity-Lumber Kings Alumni Hold Annual Golf Tournament
They have been coming together for more than two decades. Long after their junior hockey careers ended, players who have worn the Pembroke Lumber Kings jersey have gathered for an annual alumni golf tournament that is mostly about celebrating great friendships that were formed through their time playing junior hockey in Pembroke. Robb Wilson played...Continue reading→
Lumber Kings Alumni Everywhere!
What a week it was for the Pembroke Lumber Kings brand! At all levels of hockey, Lumber Kings alumni were at the centre of some of the sports’ biggest events and news stories. None of these moments were bigger than Shawn Allard’s ear-to-ear smile as he gripped the Stanley Cup and held it high over...Continue reading→
Lumber Kings Bring 45 Players to Spring Evaluation Camp
The last time the Pembroke Lumber Kings were on the ice was when they suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of the Brockville Braves, ending their 2021-22 season. That was on April 22, a night the Kings and Braves played into a fourth overtime period in game seven of their Central Canada Hockey League...Continue reading→
Lumber Kings Season Ends with Classic Overtime Thriller with Braves
It was heartbreak hotel for one team and total exhilaration for the other club. With their respective seasons on the brink, the Pembroke Lumber Kings and Brockville Braves needed to play into a fourth overtime period in game seven of their Central Canada Hockey League quarter-final series, a series that would be won on a...Continue reading→
Humboldt Broncos Bus Crash Survivor Brings Positive Message to Others
Kaleb Dahlgren doesn’t remember the accident. On Friday, April 6, 2018, he was sitting in his regular seat near the back of the bus as he and his Humboldt Broncos teammates made their way to Nipawin to play game six in their Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League playoff series with the rival Hawks. They never made...Continue reading→
A Final Encore for the Great Roy Giesebrecht
Roy Giesebrecht had to be convinced to play one more season. He had just turned 34 years of age and had been playing competitive hockey since he was a kid. The family business in Petawawa was thriving and as the oldest boy in the Giesebrecht family, he was ready to step away from the sport...Continue reading→
The Stretch Run for the Lumber Kings
It has been almost three years since the Central Canada Hockey League crowned a champion. The league is on track to award the Art Bogart Cup sometime in May, but getting to the finish line hasn’t been easy for the CCHL’s 12 teams, including the Pembroke Lumber Kings who have faced plenty of adversity as...Continue reading→
CCHL Plans to Play Full 2021-22 Season Despite COVID-19 Pandemic
The Central Canada Hockey League is determined to complete its 2021-22 season. The league has been shutdown since mid-December because of the rising number of COVID-19 cases, but league commissioner Kevin Abrams is confident the league’s 12 teams will each be able to play a 55-game schedule and a full post-season. The league is planning...Continue reading→
The Great Bill K-The Greatest Voice of the Pembroke Lumber Kings
Ron MacLean of Hockey Night in Canada was impressed when he heard a tape of the great Bill Kutshcke calling a Pembroke Lumber Kings game in the early 1960’s, so impressed that he used the clip on a national broadcast of Rogers Hometown Hockey, comparing Kutschke to a hockey broadcasting legend, Dan Kelly. Kutschke and...Continue reading→
