Hockey’s biggest rivalry returns
Random Sports Thoughts on a Friday in mid-October….
opening night in late September, the Pictou County Scotians have won three games and lost a fourth in a shootout, looking solid for the most part as they headed to East Hants on Friday night to play the high-scoring Penguins.
There is obviously a long way to go in the regular season and all sorts of things can happen to derail a team’s hopes, but the Scotians believe they have a good team, one that is quite capable of again challenging the alwaysstacked Glace Bay Miners and winning a second straight Nova Scotia Junior Hockey League title.
They are confident, but not overly confident, a team with many of its key players back for another year, knowing the sacrifice a junior team has to make if they want to lift a trophy at the end of the season.
beats the Toronto Maple Leafs 15 times in a row.
Except it might happen tonight, when the Leafs go into Montreal to play a Canadiens team that hasn’t lost to Toronto in almost four years (January 2014), picking up 14 straight wins in that span.
They call it one of the greatest rivalries in sports (and it is), but it doesn’t feel like a rivalry when one team keeps winning all the time.
That aside, these two teams playing each other on a Saturday night is always good fun – for fans of both sides – and they usually give us a good game.
on in baseball playoffs. Oh well, one out of two isn’t bad.
Non-Sports Thought of the Week:
Says in the paper that Sobeys cut 14 well-paying jobs in Pictou County, making the investors a bit happier.
Times are tough when a company sees its sales drop to $5.9-billion from $6.1-billion, so yeah, the axe has to fall on someone’s neck.
Fear not, because when making the announcement this week, Sobeys CEO Michael Medline said: “This will free us up to be extremely nimble, grow market share and thrill our customers in the more than 1,500 communities that we will continue to operate in.”
I’m not sure what Sobeys could do to thrill us, short of putting a roller coaster in the parking lot, or hiring long-legged dancing girls to give customers free samples of oysters and chocolate-covered strawberries (note to Michael Medline: MAKE THIS HAPPEN, DAWG!), but here are two suggestions:
of bacon. We love it and you know we do, no need to take advantage of our weakness just to get our money.
don’t make me walk all the way to the back of the store, past all those candies and potato chips with their brightly coloured packaging, just to tempt me into impulse-buying prodigious amounts of Smarties and other delicious treats.
Thank you, Sobeys. And to everyone else: you’re welcome.
Kevin Adshade is sportswriter with The News. His column appears each Saturday.