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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→
Pembroke’s Hockey Heritage Presented to the Nation on Rogers Hometown Hockey Broadcast
The city of Pembroke and its storied hockey franchise took centre stage recently when Rogers Hometown Hockey broadcast live from the parking lot of historic Pembroke Memorial Centre. For three hours, the city and its special relationship with the sport were profiled to a national television audience on Sportsnet, the final act in a three...Continue reading→
Rogers Hometown Hockey Comes to Pembroke
Hockey is Canada’s national game and like many communities across the nation, Pembroke has a special relationship with the sport. From Pembroke’s first official game in 1893 to its most famous hockey player, Frank Nighbor, hockey is weaved into the fabric of the municipality which brands itself as Hockey Town Canada. This weekend that rich...Continue reading→
The Original Ice Maker of the Pembroke Memorial Centre
Morris Snider was busy. As the first manager of the new Pembroke Memorial Centre he was expected to turn the new arena into a profitable enterprise, especially after the town of Pembroke had needed to hold a referendum to get the blessing of taxpayers to borrow the final $125,000 to finish the building. In the...Continue reading→
