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Jim Riddell’s Sports Talk
Presents with Area Senior Mike Piquette:
Serving You Since 1937
time in Bantam, referee Aime LeBlanc came right
over to the boards and yelled, “That’s enough out
of you Betty or you’re out of here.” Pete Piquette,
Mike’s father, had been a standout goaltender,
going to the Allan Cup finals in 1946 with the
By Jim Riddell Cornwall Falcons, then spending the next two
seasons with the Oshawa Generals. Pete was the
n this issue of Sports Energy, we are going to
Ibe looking at the papers founder and owner, Generals MVP, made the 1st All-Star team, and
lost by one vote to future Toronto Maple Leaf
Mike Piquette. In the thirty-five plus years prior
to Sports Energy’s inception in 2012, Mike had Captain, George Armstrong, as League MVP.
been extensively involved with many Cornwall Pete went on to be the third string goalie for the
and area hockey teams. “I’ve lived in the east end Toronto Maple Leafs, in an era when teams only
carried one goalie. The first string goalie was in
of Cornwall all my life.” Mike said. “Originally
we were on Marlborough St., then my parents Toronto; his backup was in Rochester, with Pete
playing in Milwaukee.
built a house on Baldwin Ave in 1967, and that
was the family home until my mom passed away Beginning in the Cornwall Minor Hockey
a couple of years ago.” His mom, Betty, was a system at five years of age, Mike joined a
nurse, and also an avid hockey fan who didn’t travelling team in Pee-wee. “ I had three coaches
like most referees. “My Dad wouldn’t sit with her on the travelling teams,” Mike recalled, “Bert
at most games, particularly if I was playing. One
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