Power skating, now taught to every player in his, her or their early years, was in its infancy and was essentially invented at the Tam by figure skating coaches who adjusted their knowledge of skating edges and balance to suit the specific needs of hockey athletes. Pete Mahovlich is in town for a few events this week, including addressing the 2023 graduates of Cathedral High School, where the future Team Canada and NHL champion spent Grade 11 and part of Grade 12 while playing for the Hamilton Red Wings in the mid-1960s.įull (well, not quite) disclosure: Mahovlich and the author of this column have remained friends since way back in 1966 when we were both teenage instructors - he on the ice, of course, the author relegated to teaching sports off the ice - at Toronto’s Tam O’Shanter, then by far the biggest summer hockey school in the world. It’s a pivotal game in the battle for first and a big crowd is expected. Pacific comes into Tim Hortons Field Saturday at 7 p.m., has a game in hand on Forge and has scored 16 goals in a five-game unbeaten run. It was the sixth time this year Hamilton has come from behind, and it came in their fifth game in 16 fatiguing days.įorge has four wins, four draws and just that single loss - although five teams have just one loss - and sits one point up on red-hot Pacific FC, the only other team to win a CPL title. Jordan Hamilton toed in Kyle Bekker’s ball during added time to give the Forge a 1-1 draw with archrival Cavalry FC. That said, with a first-place finish in the CPL regular season leading to an automatic berth into the Concacaf Champions League this year, they have to start turning more of those beguiling offensive thrusts into goals, and more of those draws into wins.Īfter losing their first game of the CPL season, 3-2 to York United on an injury time goal, Hamilton rallied in Calgary over the weekend.
Year after year, Forge FC has been one of the most consistently successful and entertaining teams ever to play in this city.
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