It’s hockey weekend in Niagara Falls

Teams of elder skatesmen, some 60 and older, are in Niagara Falls competing in the 33rd annual Cataracts Adult Hockey Tournament. Action in the 84-team, four-day competition started Thursday at the two rinks at Gale Centre, as well as at Chippawa Arena. Championship finals in all 22 divisions take place Sunday at Gale Centre. More than 1,300 players from as far as Cleveland and Princeton, N.J., are taking part in a tournament that features open divisions for players 20 and older, and specific agerestricted divisions for 35 and older, 40 and older, 50 and older, 55 and older, as well as 60 and older. Admission is free and the full schedule is available online at http://home.cogeco. ca/~sports/2017Final.pdf. “Many of the older divisions may not have the speed they once had, but they sure remember how the game is played with skill and passing the puck,” tournament chairman Winston Auld said. “The younger open division have many players who just finished junior a year ago, so they can still fly out there.”