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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Pembroke Peach had waited four years to receive his Hall of Fame scroll.  The Hall had called Frank Nighbor’s name in 1947, more than 15 years after he had […]

It was time to play a game at Pembroke’s new hockey arena.  On Saturday, October 27, 1951 as last-minute construction continued on the Pembroke Memorial Centre, the Pembroke Senior Lumber […]

It has been seven decades since the Pembroke Memorial Centre opened its doors.  The official opening was led by Ontario’s Governor General, Ray Lawson, on November 11, 1951 when close […]

It will have been 565 days since the Pembroke Lumber Kings played a meaningful hockey game when the team returns to the ice to start its 2021-22 Central Canada Hockey […]

The National Hockey League sent Mason McTavish ball caps from all 32 NHL teams, but this summer he will only be wearing his Anaheim Ducks hat.  The former Pembroke Lumber […]