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Harvard hockey captain Bill Horton was raised in Sherwood Park Alberta, a suburb of the provincial capital Edmonton. Leading scorer Bill Hozack was born in Belfast, Ireland, but his family emigrated to Edmonton when he was two years old. Winger Murray Dea is the scion of an old Edmonton hockey clan that has already produced two members...
...story of the Express begins around 15 years ago when Horton, Hozack, and Dea were energetic striplings of five and six who set out for the corner rink every Saturday. "I don't know what to do on Saturday afternoons since I came here." Hozack says, as he recalls the old days spent huddled over heaters between line changes in the sub-zero Canadian winter...
...Horton, Hozack, and Dea also learned to skate on Edmonton's outdoor rinks but these days there is a much more highly organized junior program...
Hozack and Horton were teammates for a season on a midget league team in the Southside Athletic Club Conference, one of four Metropolitan conferences. Dea, who lives on the other side of town in a hockey hotbed by the name of Rio Terrace, played against his current linemates while a member of the Knights of Columbus spurs, another midget team...
...there to hear the Crimson crowd erupt when Jackie Hughes and Horton scored shorthanded goals in the second period, when Jon Garrity notched the game-winner, when Petrovek frustrated more than one Terrier with a sprawl here and a lunge there and in so doing saved the tourney MVP award for himself. PETRO, PETRO, PETRO we yelled as the senior netminder accepted his due. You had to be there...