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Are you tired of buying hockey bag after hockey bag because they don’t last? There’s now a solution that won’t cost an arm or a leg! Welcome to world of PARR LINE hockey bags - the most innovative hockey bag since early man’s first trip to the rink! How did we get here? Let’s start at the beginning. I’m Greg Love, a life long hockey player! I’m in my 60’s and have been playing some form of competitive hockey since I was 8. I still play competitive hockey several times a week year-round. I grew up on a farm in South Western Ontario. I actually started skating when I was 6. I remember taking my skates to school in Grade 1 and skating in a farmer’s field across the road from our 1 room schoolhouse. As a kid born in any rural area of Canada, you played hockey in the winter and road hockey in the summer. Any patch of ice would do! Frozen fields
or ponds in the winter and on pads of cement or asphalt in the summer. We used anything we could shoot from pucks to pop cans, Power Pucks, tennis balls or rubber balls. With 3 brothers, it was simple to set up a shinny game anywhere or anytime!
I remember my first hockey bag. I was 8 years old in Grade 3. We didn’t have much extra money growing up and I’m sure my parents weren’t sure if I would continue playing hockey. So they bought me the hockey equipment needed to play but decided they could save some money on a hockey bag. My parents had received a 100 lb sack of sugar as a wedding gift. Apparently, this was common back then! As luck would have it, my family emptied the sugar sack just as my hockey career was beginning! And yes, I was sent to join my first hockey team in
Hensall, Ontario with a set of equipment in a empty 100 lb sugar sack. And yes, I was the only boy in the dressing room with a sugar sack instead of a regular hockey bag! For sure it was a simpler time back then and I don’t remember being bothered by this or having anyone tease me. Actually, that might have more to do with my height and build and being from a farm! I was usually the tallest in my class! I have no idea how long the sugar sack lasted but I spent only 1 season with the Hensall team. Since we moved schools the next year, I switched to a Zurich hockey team. A town of 720 people where I met my best friend to this day and a
town where I still play shinny hockey periodically on Sunday nights in the winter!
Our Zurich team had good combinations of playmakers, snipers, defencemen and goalies. We won some regional and provincial honours t hroughout the years.Now skip ahead a few decades to my beer league years. Most of the years run together. I’m staring at several trophies that our teams won. One trophy is the year I played with