Jim Farelli watched intently from the press box at the Pembroke Memorial Centre. The veteran junior A coach was making his final cuts as training camp and the pre-season wrapped up for his Pembroke Lumber Kings. The start of the 1986-87 season was just around the corner and the team’s director of player personell, Gavin […]
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 white jerseys emblazoned with the well known Lumber Kings crown decades earlier, come from across the province for this annual get together to share stories […]
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 headlines being generated by the club were about what was happening off the ice. The media firestorm that began as the Lumber Kings season ended […]
With the National Hockey League season on pause as the world deals with the COVID-19 virus pandemic, television networks have been scrambling to fill hours of programming time normally consumed by Canada’s national sport. The Saturday night slot held by the iconic Hockey Night in Canada on CBC has been replaced by Movie Night in […]
It has been 90 years since Frank Nighbor laced up a pair of skates in a professional hockey game. It has been 67 years since he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame and it has been almost 55 years since he died. The “Pembroke Peach,” as Nighbor was known, is recognized as one […]
It’s still mind boggling! Almost 35 years after Luc Chabot of the Pembroke Lumber Kings lit up the Central Canada Hockey League by scoring 101 goals in only 46 games, it’s hard to believe he was able to put up those kind of numbers in so few games. Sure, it was a different time. In […]
On Sunday, January 5th the Pembroke Lumber Kings welcomed in the New Year with their first game of 2020. it was a stinker. The Kings lost 4-0 to the Hawkesbury Hawks, primarily because their depleted line-up had only 13 skaters, two of whom were call ups from the club’s Junior B affiliate, the Whitewater Kings. […]
The Pembroke Lumber Kings are the most storied franchise in the Central Canada Hockey League. Because of that history, the Kings also garner the most media attention. Six members of the media who have watched the team all season long weigh in with their mid-season report cards. Jamie Bramburger: Play by Play-Your TV (Cogeco) […]
School day hockey games have been around for a while, but there’s no question they bring a special energy to the home team. The Pembroke Lumber Kings completed a sweep of their school day series with the Ottawa Junior Senators when they doubled the Sens 4-2 on Friday, October 25th with about 600 school children […]
