How long has hockey been in your family?

[DarkStar50 679]

My grandmother came from England in the 20s and went through Hamilton, Ontario before heading to the States. I can only wonder if she ever passed a rink in Hamilton 75 years ago!

[Eazy_b97 1]

Sweet, Dstar! Gotta love the Hammer! I know we had an outdoor rink forever that was just re-done (for a second time) about a few years ago.

The Parkdale Pat Quinn arena

[RadioGaGa 162]

Sweet, Dstar! Gotta love the Hammer! I know we had an outdoor rink forever that was just re-done (for a second time) about a few years ago.

The Parkdale Pat Quinn arena

Wasn't Coronation an Outdoor for a long long time?

To the original question...My dad played when he was a kid (never went anywhere in hockey)...I didn't play as a kid...started later in life. Is that still 2nd Gen?

[sweetblazer 0]

lonnng time..my great great great uncle is cy denneny. He won stanley cups with the senators and and art ross in 1924 http://www.nhl.com/hockeyu/history/trophies/ross.html

[srv2miker 0]

2nd generation. My Dad played, but suprisingly Gramps didn't get a whole lot of ice time during the depression ;)

My Dad still has his orignal gloves, Gordie Howe specials from the Eatons catalogue :) I'm saving them to put in a shadow box someday.

They look just like these

[cause4alarm 7]

lonnng time..my great great great uncle is cy denneny. He won stanley cups with the senators and and art ross in 1924 http://www.nhl.com/hockeyu/history/trophies/ross.html

I just read on Wikipedia the other day that they misspelled his name on the Stanley Cup! Cy Dennenenneny

[Hockeyman9621 0]

My great great uncle on my moms side got invited to play with the New York Rangers but his wife(my aunt) wouldn't let him. On my dads side his cousin Dan McCarthy played AHL hockey and 4 goals in 5 games with the rangers. Wierd coincidence that my only two connections to NHL hockey are the rangers.

[CardinalHcky19 0]

im the only one im my whole family to play hockey. my brother started to but he didnt like it

[Langenbrunner15 0]

2nd generation. My Dad played, but suprisingly Gramps didn't get a whole lot of ice time during the depression ;)

My Dad still has his orignal gloves, Gordie Howe specials from the Eatons catalogue :) I'm saving them to put in a shadow box someday.

They look just like these

My neighbor which is like my uncle gave me some pairs like those when I was VERY young, but with a canadian sign on the cuff. Had to ducktape some of the fingers they were falling apart.

[Sven 1]

Im the 1st one.