Two former Kingson athletes Harv Milne and Bob Moses, will be inducted into the Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame this week. Milne and Moses will be honoured for winning the Centennial Cup with the Rockland Nationals - fifty years ago in 1976. It’s a pretty short list of Kingston players that played in two national … Continue reading Harv Milne & Bob Moses: Two Kingston Athletes being inducted into the Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame. Their Rockland, ON Junior ‘A’ Team won the Centennial Cup in 1976

Sad news this week to hear of the recent passing of former Kingston athlete Eddie Long. In the early 1960's Long was a rock on the blueline for some very good teams with the Kingston Junior 'B' Frontenacs. Long moved up to join the Kingston Senior 'A' Aces where he became a popular teammate and … Continue reading Eddie Long: Remembered As a Great Teammate And Versatile Athlete

Garry Lavallee (left) helped the Kingston midget team win the OMHA championship in 1961 as a player & later coached the Kingston midgets that won an OMHA title in 1968. Lavallee with teammates Kurt Demmler & Charlie Convery. It was 58 years ago in the spring of 1968 the Kingston Midget all-stars won the OMHA … Continue reading Garry Lavallee: Played On Kingston’s 1961 OMHA Midget Championship Team and Coached the Kingston Midgets To Another OMHA Title in 1968

Inmates work the Portsmouth Quarry in 1911. Photo courtesy of Canada's Penitentiary Museum Collection In the mid-1800’s Portsmouth Park was a busy limestone quarry worked by inmates from Kingston Penitentiary. Decades later, renamed Garrigan Park, it was home to the City of Kingston’s popular youth summer parks program. Kingston’s best fastball players played in the … Continue reading Portsmouth’s Garrigan Park: A Once Thriving Limestone Quarry Has A Long History

Official team photo of the Kingston Combines junior team that went to the 1926 Memorial Cup Final. Another junior hockey season ended quietly in Kingston this week, as the Frontenacs with what many consider to be the nucleus of a good young team, were dispatched in four straight games by a much better Ottawa 67’s … Continue reading A Century Later: Kingston Waits For A Memorial Cup

In the early years of the franchise in the 1970’s, the Kingston Canadians had some epic playoff battles with the Ottawa 67’s. But you have to go back 45 years to find the last time these two rivals met in the post season. The 1980-81 Kingston Canadians had one of the most feared power plays … Continue reading 1981 OHL Playoffs: 45 Years Ago Bernie Nicholls led the Kingston Canadians to upset playoff win over Ottawa 67’s.

Kingston was a hotbed for fastball in the 1970’s and Ron Cordukes was consistently one this area’s top pitchers. Cordukes learned how to pitch growing up on the family farm located off Highway 38 on Cordukes Road, he had four sisters who would take turns catching, wearing out an old glove between chores on most … Continue reading Remembering Ron Cordukes: Won multiple Circle Fastball League championships in the 1970’s.

In 1981 led by Paul Stothart, Queen's Gaels won the OUAA Championship and earned a berth the CIAU National Finals Queen's Gaels won the OUAA title in 1980-81, its first Ontario title in 67 years This past weekend the Queen’s men’s hockey team advanced to the CIS University Cup National Finals in Halifax with a … Continue reading Forty-Five Years Ago In 1981 The Queen’s Men’s Hockey Gaels Won the Ontario Championship. Ending A 67 Year Drought.

The former Kingston Canadian played 9-seasons in Rochester and was a Calder Cup Champion. The AHL’s Rochester Americans will honour the memory of Scott Metcalfe when they host the Laval Rocket Friday night Feb 27th. Metcalfe, who died suddenly in June, 2025 at age 58, spent 9 years of his 14-year pro career in Rochester … Continue reading Amerks To Honour Former Fan Favourite Scott Metcalfe.

Fifty-five years ago, the Kingston Young Nats Bennett's Foods Peewee all-star team was the best team in North America. Coached by Dr. Gerry Wagar and led by two future NHL’ers, Rick Paterson and Ken Linseman, they won the North American Silver Stick Tournament in Port Huron, Michigan in January, 1971. Paterson owns four Stanley Cup … Continue reading Rick Paterson anchored the Kingston Bennett’s Foods Young Nats Peewee team that won the North American Silver Stick in 1971. Paterson went on to earn four Stanley Cup rings.