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'Tis the season for sportsmanship

Minor hockey often gets a black eye when parents or coaches go berserk at the local arena, attacking refs or verbally abusing opposing players. But this past week offered a couple of uplifting examples of sportsmanship at its finest. The Lac St. Louis Tigers and Lac St. Louis Royals of the midget espoirs league are fierce rivals on the ice, but the teams joined forces last Saturday by holding a charity food and toy drive at their game at the Dollard Civic Centre. ...
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Girls' hockey still skating the extra mile

When three Beaconsfield hockey players - Lauriane Rougeau, Camille Dumais and Leslie Oles - were named to the Canadian under-18 national women’s team a year ago, it was hailed as another accomplishment for girls hockey on the West Island. But considering the Lakeshore trio had played boys’ hockey in their younger days, it spoke more about their own individual achievements than anything else. ...
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McHugh is right fit for Abbott football

Hiring Justin McHugh as head coach of the John Abbott football team was a no-brainer. Who else to revive the struggling Islander football program than someone with McHugh’s credentials at the local grass-roots level? As McHugh knows, recruiting from the midget football ranks is the key to success at the CEGEP level, and his recent stint as head coach of the first-place North Shore Mustangs should help him attract new talent to a John Abbott program that has slipped off the...
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Roy a Hall-of-Shame parent coach

Few will argue Patrick Roy was one of the greatest goalies to ever play the game. But he isn’t measuring up as a hockey parent. Twice in the past year, Jonathan and Frédéric Roy, who both play for Quebec Remparts, a team coached and co-owned by their famous father, have brought the game into disrepute with violent on-ice acts. Last March, his son Jonathan, a goalie, skated the length of the ice to pummel an opposing netminder who did not want any part of a fight. ...
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Lions simply the best

Love ‘em or hate ‘em, as some apparently do, the North Shore Lions are the crème de la crème of amateur football in Quebec. The Lions capped another perfect season Sunday with a 17-8 win over the St.Léonard Cougars in the Quebec Bantam Football League final. It was a fitting punctuation mark on a sparkling 13-0 season for the Lions, who’ve won a remarkable 69 consecutive games since losing the 2003 provincial final. ...
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Politics snuff out Lions' bid for provincial football crown

The North Shore Lions are considered the benchmark of success in Quebec minor football. Always have been, by friend and foe alike. Since their inception in 1967, the Lions have steamrolled their way to an amazing 30 provincial championships in 40 years. That kind of perennial domination on the gridiron, like the New York Yankees in baseball, has made them a few enemies along the way. ...
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Lachine's Mahoney leads underdog Stingers

I can think of a couple of good reasons to root for the Concordia Stingers this weekend when they travel to Quebec City for the Dunsmore Cup game against the Laval Rouge et Or. One is that the ninth-ranked Stingers are once again considered underdogs against the mighty Rouge et Or, the No. 1-ranked varsity football team in the country. The Stingers, under head coach and fellow West Islander Gerry McGrath, have fielded competitive teams in recent years but getting past Laval has...
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Chapman football era ends at JAC

Lou Chapman’s association with John Abbott football dates back to 1971 when he was a member of the first JAC-MAC team, a combo of Macdonald College and Abbott players. He first joined the Islanders as an assistant coach in 1982, and well, never left. Chapman formally ended that association this week when he announced he was stepping down as head coach of the Islanders, who missed the playoffs with a 3-7 record. Since becoming head in 2005, his teams compiled a...
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On golden ponds

The stock market may be going down the drain, but you may want to invest in a new arena, if only... Hockey parents are once again feeling the pinch as the price of ice time at local arenas keeps inching up, year after year. Privately-owned facilities like the 4-Glace Sportplexe in Pierrefonds is charging more than $300 an hour for a sheet of ice and a prime time skate at the Excellent Ice mini-rinks in Kirkland will cost you $200 and change. Are rink owners gouging their...
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Lakers a Canadian soccer dynasty

The Lac St. Louis Lakers dynasty continues. The Lakers, who’ve performed better than any soccer club in the country at the Canadian championships over the past two decades, shone at the 2008 nationals again last weekend. Marco Masucci’s under-16 girls’ team struck gold in Sydney, N.S., while both the U-18 men’s (silver) and women’s (bronze) sides also reached the medal podium. ...
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