Summary

SENIOR CITIZENS GOT TOGETHER FOR AN UNUSUAL REUNION...A HOCKEY MEETING.

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 187810
Story Slug Hockey - Players
Location Duluth, Minnesota
Format Pkg
Date 07/09/2000
Archive Time 14:48
TRT 2:31
Supers Duluth, Minnesota Mars Lakeview Arena Padriac Daugherty, Cathedral High Victor Dunder, Central High John Vucinovich, Cathedral Hockey Coach
Video Description MAN MAKING A SHOT ON GOAL, FALLING DOWN, SOT OF MAN, SOT OF MAN, ELDERLY MAN SKATING, CU OF MAN SKATING ON ICE, MEN SKATING ON ICE, MEN GOING AFTER PUCK, CU OF LEGS, MAN FALLING DOWN, SHOT ON GOAL, MAN SHOT ON GOAL, SHOT OF GOALIE, SOT OF MAN, CU OF MEN FIGHTING OVER PUCK, CU OF GOALIE, SHOT OF MAN, SOT OF MAN, SOT OF MAN, SHOT ON GOAL,
Description SENIOR CITIZENS GOT TOGETHER FOR AN UNUSUAL REUNION...A HOCKEY MEETING.
Script LEAD: TWO MEN IN THEIR 70'S SQUARED OFF IN A ONE-ON-ONE HOCKEY GAME THIS AFTERNOON. THE GAME SHOULD HAVE BEEN PLAYED A HALF-A-CENTURY AGO. THAT'S WHEN THE TWO MEN WERE PLAYING IN THE DULUTH CITY LEAGUE. BUT THE US NAVY AND WORLD WAR 2 PULLED THEM APART. TODAY, THEY MADE UP FOR LOST TIME. MATT ARNOLD HAS THEIR STORY. (TAKE PKG) SCRIPT: THEY'RE NOT AS STRONG AS THEY USE TO BE. NAT: FALLING DOWN. AND THEY'RE NOT AS GOOD ON SKATES, EITHER. BUT THEY'RE STILL BURNING. (SOT) "The way he phrased it was, if you're coming on that ice from new york doctor, you better have your nurse with your." (SOT) "I'm pretty tough." IN 1939, VIC AND PAT PLAYED ON THE SAME PEE-WEE TEAM. THEY WON THE CITY CHAMPIONSHIP. WHEN HIGH SCHOOL CAME AROUND, THEY WERE ON DIFFERENT TEAMS. VIC WENT TO CENTRAL, PAT TO CATHEDRAL. BUT IN HIS SOPHOMORE YEAR, VIC WENT INTO THE NAVY AND INTO WAR. SO THEY'RE HIGHSCHOOL RIVALRY NEVER HAPPENED. TODAY, THEY MADE UP FOR IT. VIC IS 73, AND PAT IS 74. BUT THEY'RE STILL YOUNG AT HEART. IT'S A GAME OF ONE-ON-ONE. EACH GUY GETS TEN SHOTS. ONE POINT FOR A SHOT ON GOAL. AND THREE POINTS FOR A GOAL. AND THREE POINTS FOR A GOAL. VIC JUMPS ON TOP EARLY, WITH A KNEE-BUCKLING MOVE. AND A SHOT ON GOAL...HE ALSO PLAYS TOUGH DEFENSE. IT WAS A ROCKY START FOR PAT, WHO WAS PLAYING IN FRONT OF HIS HIGH SCHOOL COACH. NAT: VIC SHOT A GOAL. AFTER A FEW MORE ROUNDS, VIC STILL HAS THE LEAD. WITH A GOAL AND A FEW MORE SHOTS ON GOAL. THE MEN NEED A BREAK. AND PAT GETS SOME TIPS FROM COACH. NATS: IF YOU COAST A LITTLE BIT, YOU MAY MAKE IT. IT GET'S MORE PHYSICAL AS THE GAME GOES ON. AND THE MOMENTUM CHANGES HANDS. PAT TAKES ADVANTAGE OF HIS SPEED. AND SCORES A GOAL. THE GAME IS TIED. AND COACH IS IMPRESSED. (SOT) "I was amazed they were able to skate as well as they did really." AFTER A FEW MORE SHOTS ON GOAL, PAT GETS A COME FROM BEHIND VICTORY. 9-7. AND HE IS RELIEVED. (SOT) "I want coming home after all this stuff. and my wife would say how did it come out...I had to win." THE GAME WAS COMPETITIVE. BUT FOR THESE TWO, IT'S NOT REALLY ABOUT WINNING. FOR ABOUT AN HOUR, THESE TWO OLD MEN WERE KIDS...PLAYING A GAME THEY LOVE...LIVING A DREAM THEY COULDN'T LIVE 50 YEARS AGO. 2200
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