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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
