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Surrounded by champions, Oilers blow it again →  January 24, 2010

BufferFriday night we abandoned our normal Shabbat dinner plans and headed down to the Parade of Champions. EPCOR has been teaming up with the Oilers and sponsoring special events featuring Canadian Olympic athletes. Benny and I accompanied LA to meet Olympic kayaker Adam Van Koeverden . Adam is a bit of a celebrity athlete. It doesn’t [...]

Go team go →  January 1, 2010

BufferMaddy, together with David, arrived from Toronto for the post-Christmas holiday. I had plans for all kinds of fun activities to do with all the kids – WEM, of course, was at the top of the list, followed by Telus World of Science, skating, sledding, etc. Well, we go to the mall – twice. But time [...]

→  October 6, 2009

BufferSaw my first Oilers game (compliments of Joe Roselli and FMC). Oilers won in a shoot-out, on the last of three tries. The Stars had one last chance to get the equalizer and Oilers goaltender Nikolai Khabibulin called on the goalpost to make the last save. See the summary. Dinner was at Tony’s Pizza Palace, [...]