Fifty years ago, the Lumber Kings were the toast of the newly minted city of Pembroke. The 1972-73 Lumber Kings had put together a season for the ages, losing only […]

Pembroke Lumber Kings General Manager Art Bogart was expecting big things from his hockey club as the season approached.  Like the rest of the country, Bogart was paying attention to […]

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 […]

Francis Dupuis called it the greatest pre-game speech he had ever heard.  It left half the team in tears and “motived the Hell out of us,” said Dupuis as he […]

To understand how special it is to play for the Pembroke Lumber Kings, one only needs to attend the team’s alumni golf tournament once. Players who wore the red and […]

In the spring of 1978 the Pembroke Lumber Kings were coming off a second consecutive league championship and another  run at a Centennial Cup national title, but most of the […]

Ben Reinhardt was out of breath.  He had played most of the first period and he and his teammates had been under assault by the heavily favoured Vernon Vipers who […]

For the first time in the 58 year history of the Central Canada Hockey League there will be no league champion. The CCHL was one of the first junior leagues […]