Brett Thoms
Pontiac August 16, 2022
The National Capital Hockey Show will be held in Ottawa this weekend.
The event is being organized by Pontiac native Stuart Graham, who promises that it will have a special tie in to Shawville hockey royalty Bryan Murray, who, among other accomplishments in his long career, served as general manager of the Ottawa Senators from 2007 to 2016.
The event will also feature a celebration of the 50-year anniversary of the 1972 USSR Summit Series, where Team Canada beat the USSR after a hard fought eight game series. The celebration will feature guests like . . .
Paul Henderson and Yvan Cournoyer, who played on Team Canada during the 1972 series, and Canadian diplomat Gary J. Smith, who helped organize the game.
“If you look up the history of the Summit Series, they shut down the whole country, all the businesses went to watch the game and everything came to a standstill. And if you talk about it with that generation, they can tell you where they were at the time when the final goal was scored,” said Graham about the significance of the anniversary of the Summit Series.
The show will also host Ottawa’s newest Senator, Claude Giroux, as well as various vendors, musical acts and other hockey related activities.
“My mom always said life is hockey and hockey is life,” said Graham about his mother Charlene Graham. “I mean, the Shawville arena, that’s where it all started. That’s where Bryan Murray learned to coach. I mean, we didn’t have a lot to do growing up. The hockey rink was pretty much it,” said Graham about what hockey means to the Pontiac.
The event will be held at EY Center in Ottawa South. Tickets will be available at various businesses in the Pontiac or at ottawahockeyshow.com. The tickets cost $20 per person.
