Owen Sound native Cody Bass of the Nashville Predators watches the action from the bench during a 2016-17 home game. John Russell/NHLI via Getty Images
Binkley expects to be bouncing like a warm puck around Hockey Day In Canada through the weekend, events in his hometown having begun on Jan. 18. They include clinics, high school games for boys and girls and celebrity and alumni games, crowned by a Saturday morning Stanley Cup parade to the opening ceremony of a day-long outdoor hockey festival.
Sportsnet will cut to the festivities during its four televised games: the Tampa Bay Lightning in Calgary against the Flames (3 p.m. ET, CBC, TVAS, SN, BSSUN, SN NOW); the Maple Leafs in Montreal against the Canadiens (7 p.m. ET, CBC, TVAS, SNE, SNO, SNP, NHLN, SN NOW); the Winnipeg Jets in Ottawa against the Senators (7 p.m. ET, SN1, CITY, SNW, TVAS2, SN NOW); and the Edmonton Oilers in Vancouver against the Canucks (10 p.m. ET, CBC, SN, CITY, SN NOW).
Now a resident of Walkerton, Ontario, about 40 miles south of Owen Sound, Binkley will think fondly of Lumley, as he often does.
"Harry went to lots of junior games in Owen Sound, and we'd sit together while I was scouting," he said. "Finally he'd say, 'I can't watch any more, let's go to Seldon House (a century-old hotel and bar). There was music there - country/western."
Then, with a laugh:
"And Harry had a lot of stories," Binkley said. "So many of them."
Top photo:Goalie Harry Lumley poses with the 1953-54 Vezina Trophy that he won with the Toronto Maple Leafs. Turofsky/Hockey Hall of Fame