Hometown Honours
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MarkusKetterer
Shoulda got one game in
Yea. But it’s a crappy honour. It’s downtown and is basically just a hockey rink and a skateboard park. I mean Roberta Bondar got a building and an outdoor event centre built for her. And that building houses the OLG winner verification place!
LeBlondeDemon10
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Well she is an astronaut and the Espositos are merely hockey players to be fair.
MarkusKetterer
Shoulda got one game in
Yea I know. Helps that she was Canada’s first female one too. Most things here are named for local celebrities.
njdevils1982
Hell Toupée!!!
roger neilson way in peterborough ontario……not exactly his hometown but spent a good while coaching there.
bottom end of george st. where the pete's arena is
bottom end of george st. where the pete's arena is
Staniowski
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Fred "Cyclone" Taylor had 2 hometowns - first, the small community of Tara, ON (which is just south of the Bruce Peninsula); and the slightly larger town of Listowel, ON in Southwestern Ontario. His family moved from Tara to Listowel when he was a kid.
The plaque, above, is in Tara, ON.
The second photo is of a sweater of the Listowel junior hockey team, named in honour of Taylor.
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Staniowski
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Parry Sound, ON.
The town of Parry Sound is located on the body of water of the same name, it being an inlet of Georgian Bay, which itself is an arm of Lake Huron.
The 2nd photo is of the Bobby Orr Community Centre.
The 3rd photo shows part of the Bobby Orr Hall of Fame.
Staniowski
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Drummondville, Quebec - Hometown of Marcel Dionne.
The city of Drummondville is located on the main highway between Montreal and Quebec City, roughly halfway, but a little closer to Montreal.
Centre Marcel-Dionne, home of the Drummondville Voltigeurs of the QMJHL.
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Pavillon Jean Beliveau, Victoriaville, Quebec (with Victoriaville's other hockey star, Gilbert Perreault).
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Mark Recchi Way in Kamloops in the year 2000 in honour of him being named the city's athlete of the century.
He was just 32 years old.
He was just 32 years old.
It's an extremely out of the way street though.
I've always liked that Dennis Hull would cover up his brother Bobby name and write home of Dennis Hull.
I actually started to think about this and it is very rare in Finland. I think at the moment moment there might be only one statue for hockey player in Finland (for Erkki Laine). Arenas are usually named by sponsors (and areas).
Eeli Tolvanen has small street named by him in Nummela called Eelinpolku.
Uusikaarlepyy has Komarov Arena (renamed for Leo Komarov who was born in Estonia but moved as young kid to Uusikaarlepyy)
And the Tanhuvaara Sports Institute arena in Savonlinna was renamed as Tuukka Rask Arena.
Not quite hometown honour, but researcher from Boston Area named new species of wasps Thaumatodryinis tuukkaraski. Wasp was found from Kenya though.
Eeli Tolvanen has small street named by him in Nummela called Eelinpolku.
Uusikaarlepyy has Komarov Arena (renamed for Leo Komarov who was born in Estonia but moved as young kid to Uusikaarlepyy)
And the Tanhuvaara Sports Institute arena in Savonlinna was renamed as Tuukka Rask Arena.
Not quite hometown honour, but researcher from Boston Area named new species of wasps Thaumatodryinis tuukkaraski. Wasp was found from Kenya though.
Staniowski
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I don't have photos, but:
Frank Nighbor Street in downtown Pembroke, ON.
Dit Clapper Drive in Hastings, ON.
Frank Nighbor Street in downtown Pembroke, ON.
Dit Clapper Drive in Hastings, ON.
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