The Ringer was in Lake Placid and we hung out. It was great to hang out with him and his friend Bill. They were old skate and bike buddies. Great story from Bill who surprisingly knew most of the guys I played college hockey with. He brought back alot of blasts from the past from my hockey days.
Great story about him and Bob Fenn being trainers or mechanics for a Six Day Race at Madison Square Garden. Packed house and all the riders were tired and sleeping. He and Roscoe were called to ride the bikes.
Also, Ringer gave me an update to story #1. Where these guys beat the crap out of him and a buddy while they were trying to skate.
http://boudieskate.blogspot.com/2008/01/dick-ring.html
Update: Ringer tells me that the first day on the ice in a out of town neighborhood. Him and his skating partner knew that something was up when a couple of kids dressed up from Catholic school came up to them. He says this one guy was up on a snow bank dressed up. Him and his buddy knew trouble was going to follow so Ringers looks his friend in the eye. Ringer grabs the kid by his tie and pulls him down while him and his buddy pound on him. As Ringer said, "we knew we were in trouble but Godamnit we were going to beat the crap out of at least one guy". The second day same thing. Guy comes up to them and Ringer and his buddy look at each other. As Ringer puts it they just swung at this guy from their outside arms as they stood facing this kid. They hit from from the left and right simultaneously.....they got the #$#$ kicked out of them again but as Ringer said, "we made sure we got one of them good"......LOL! Ah the old days.....i could listen to these stories all night.
I also met Dean Marini who was a high school teammate of mine on our hockey team. He was there for a hockey tourny with his son. It was funny I was warming up in the 1980 rink and he says "boudie"? I look at him and go yea. I didn't recognize him. He saw my first race. He couldn't tell who won....it was close. I love hanging in the 80 rink Miracle on Ice rink. When I first went to Lake Placid you would always see Jack Shea walking there every morning. What a great guy.
It was awesome staying at Marilyn Lyseks. Highly recommend looking up Lyseks in Lake Placid if you are ever there. We had awesome food and great socializing. I meet Eleanor Poore, Al Forsyth, Eleanor's mom, some hikers from Quebec (they snow shoed 10 hours on Sat!), and other who were with me (Mark Chysler, Pat Know and Mark's son Garrett). What an awesome weekend. Only bummer was seeing the Patriots lose Sunday night. Also met Liz Looby
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