Mac MacLean was seething. It was game three of the 1973 Centennial Cup national championship series in Brandon, Manitoba and his Pembroke Lumber Kings had just had the last six […]
Roy Giesebrecht was best known as a hockey player, but when his country needed him, he chose the battlefields of Europe over his hockey career. It was the spring of […]
Kevin Ready just wanted to win a championship with the Pembroke Lumber Kings, but four years after he took over as the team’s general manager, he stepped aside. After calling […]
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 […]
Richard Samson loved playing for the Pembroke Lumber Kings. A visit to his home and a mere mention of his time playing goal for his hometown junior hockey team could […]
The 2021-22 season was supposed to be the opportunity for the Central Canada Hockey League season to put the COVID-19 pandemic in the rearview mirror, but as the calendar turned […]
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 […]
New players, a new team captain, new assistant coach and a new season. Pembroke Lumber Kings hockey returns this weekend with a lot of new faces playing in the oldest […]
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 […]
