A great honour for Kingson native Bruce Landon. For the first time the American Hockey League has presented the ‘Bruce Landon Award of Excellence’ to the league’s outstanding hockey operations executive. The inaugural winner of the Landon award for the 2024-25 season is Laval Rocket GM John Sedgwick. Under the leadership of Sedgwick, the Rocket … Continue reading American Hockey League: Inaugural Bruce Landon Award Of Excellence
Mike Postovit: Former CKWS Sports Reporter To Be Honoured By The Queen’s Football Hall of Fame
Longtime CKWS-TV / Global News sports reporter Mike Postovit is among sixteen new inductees announced this week by the Queen’s University Football Hall of Fame. The storied football program is adding eight new members in the builders category and eight players to be enshrined at induction ceremonies in September. Mike Postovit always preferred being in … Continue reading Mike Postovit: Former CKWS Sports Reporter To Be Honoured By The Queen’s Football Hall of Fame
Bryan Olney: The Kingston Radio Legend Met The Beatles
Promotional photo of Bryan Olney from CKWS 960 he would sign for listeners Many consider Bryan Olney to be the most talented and popular on-air personality in the long history of Kingston’s CKWS 960 AM radio. Olney passed away last week at the age of eighty-seven on Manitoulin Island, where he had lived for the … Continue reading Bryan Olney: The Kingston Radio Legend Met The Beatles
Kingston, Ont. Five Stanley Cup Winning Goals. One Ring For The Thumb.
Stanley Cup champions Ken Linseman, Doug Gilmour & Rick Smith. 2018 photo. There are many great hockey towns across Canada, but only one can brag about having five players that scored Stanley Cup winning goals. Bragging rights belong to us, right here in Kingston, Ontario. Before the NHL was formed in 1917, it was known … Continue reading Kingston, Ont. Five Stanley Cup Winning Goals. One Ring For The Thumb.
Bob Elliott, Kingston sporting royalty: Arniel, Cherry, Cook, Earl, Ferguson, Gilmour, Pester families
Kingston's Most Influential Sports Families May 18, 2025 By Bob Elliott - Canadian Baseball Network In writing about the Arniel family and its place in Kingston sporting circles, someone suggested ... why not rank Kingston’s most important sporting families. We tried to set a ground rule of having two or more inductees into the Kingston … Continue reading Bob Elliott, Kingston sporting royalty: Arniel, Cherry, Cook, Earl, Ferguson, Gilmour, Pester families
Bob Elliott: Arniel’s one of Kingston’s most influential sporting families
By Bob Elliott • Canadian Baseball Network Published May 21, 2025 • Down two goals with less than two minutes remaining in Game 7. Sounds like pressure for the coach behind the bench? How about trailing by a goal with less than five ticks on the clock? Pressure could be the middle name for Scott Arniel, first-year coach … Continue reading Bob Elliott: Arniel’s one of Kingston’s most influential sporting families
Mark Potter: Remembering Gary MacGregor, 100-goal a season man, Memorial Cup champion & 1971 OBA Midget champ
Gary MacGregor: Ahead By A Century Gary MacGregor belongs to one of hockey's most exclusive clubs. The Century Club. You can count on one hand players who have scored 100 goals in a single season. MacGregor (Kingston, Ont.) hit the century mark in 1973-74 with the Cornwall Royals, lofty heights for an undersized centre, a … Continue reading Mark Potter: Remembering Gary MacGregor, 100-goal a season man, Memorial Cup champion & 1971 OBA Midget champ
Doc Wagar: A Tri-Sport Athlete Wore The Tri-Colour
Doc Wagar at the 1974 Wrigley Cup finals in Oshawa What is your definition of a high achiever? How about a Queen’s student who in the 1940’s excelled playing three varsity sports and still found time to earn a medical degree. That student, a lifelong learner, was Kingston’s H. Gerald ‘Doc’ Wagar, an outstanding student … Continue reading Doc Wagar: A Tri-Sport Athlete Wore The Tri-Colour
Wally Elmer: 1925 Victoria Cougars Stanley Cup Champion Left A Legacy in Kingston, Ontario
By Mark Potter KTown Sports Blog Wally Elmer was a Stanley Cup champion with the 1925 Victoria Cougars If you played minor hockey in Kingston, chances are you played at the Wally Elmer Arena. Affectionately referred to as the ‘Wally Dome,’ or ‘Wally Gardens,’ it was a rink covered with a tin roof and about … Continue reading Wally Elmer: 1925 Victoria Cougars Stanley Cup Champion Left A Legacy in Kingston, Ontario
The Kingston Canadians First Playoff Series Thrilled Local Fans Fifty Years Ago
Kingston Whig Standard April 08, 1975 It was fifty years ago this month that hockey reached a fever pitch in Kingston. The upstart Kingston Canadians in just their second year in Major Junior Hockey, took the nation's best team and eventual Memorial Cup champions to the wall in a thrilling eight-game series with the Toronto … Continue reading The Kingston Canadians First Playoff Series Thrilled Local Fans Fifty Years Ago
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