As some 1,800 kids roll into eight hockey rinks this weekend much of the fuel that will sustain the Leaside Select Hockey Tournament will come from wonderfully dressed hot dogs and glazed peameal bacon sandwiches (No cracks about the hot dogs on the ice please, everyone is a team player). These great walk-away delights are two favorites at Andy Elder’s Grilltime meat shop on Laird Drive. Andy is catering things at Leaside Gardens where he will dish up more than 1,200 meals on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Andy will also be serving delectable smoked brisket and chili and roast beef sandwiches with peppers, horseradish aioli, caramelized onion and arugula. (When’s lunch?)
GAMES AT EIGHT ARENAS
This is the 26th invitational tourney and it will see 116 teams on the ice with 29 of them from Leaside alone. Games will be played at eight rinks (Leaside, Angela James, Canlan Victoria Park, De La Salle, Don Mills, Oriole, Victoria Village and York Mills). The hard-working chair is Grant Worden and his equally industrious co-chairs are Valerie Cooke, Masja Stark and Line Livingstone. Grant notes that the tournament’s Platinum Sponsor is Scotiabank, without which it would be hard to mount this great sporting and family event. .
