In My Day We Didn't Have Ice!

Good grief, if the Sens lose this series, I hope the old coot doesn't kick! Hell, he probably went to elementary school with C. Montgomery Burns, fought John L. Sullivan, and dated Alice Roosevelt!

OTTAWA (CP) - Russell Williams was set to achieve an amazing hockey trifecta Saturday night.

Williams, a spritely, laughing 99-year-old who was born in 1908, was in the old Ottawa Auditorium arena the night the Ottawa Senators won their last Stanley Cup on April 13, 1927.

The former truck driver, roads inspector, tire jockey and warehouse worker also attended the first game of the expansion Senators at the Civic Centre in October 1992 when NHL hockey returned to Ottawa after a 58-year hiatus.

"I can name you all the players but one on that (1927) Stanley Cup team," Williams said Saturday morning at his home in west-end Ottawa, where he lives with his son and grandson, both also named Russell. (H/T - Yahoo!)

Mr. Williams then rambled on about how television was a "fad," and regaled the writer about how he wore an onion on his belt . . . "which was the style at the time."