April 21, 2020 Welcome back to Teaching Tuesday! Great work to everyone who completed last week’s activities! This week, we are looking back at Clipper history!

These activities are designed for students in Grades 1-7. We recognize that not every child will be able to complete all of the activities and that’s okay.

We worked hard to include creative ways you can help your child develop their language arts, math, science, and art skills. We hope you and your child enjoy going through these workbooks over the next few months.

We are not educational professionals, these activities should not replace course materials you may receive from your child’s teacher(s) but are meant to provide additional material and entertainment for your child.

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NHL Crossword

Across Down 6. Panthers 1. Sabres

7. Canadiens 2. Wild 9. Stars 3. Red Wings 10. Senators 4. Hurricanes 12. Ducks 5. Avalanche 16. Flames 8. Capitals 17. Maple Leafs 11. Predators 18. Kings 13. Gold Knights 19. Penguins 14. Coyotes 20. Canucks 15. Jets 22. Bruins 16. Blue Jackets 23. Blackhawks 21. Oilers

BCHL Wordsearch

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Colour Magic!

Using paint, crayons, pencil crayons, or markers; colour in the circles in the first column with a colour of your choosing. Fill the circles in the second column with a different colour. Then, mix the two colours to create a new colour in the third column. What new colours did you make?

Clippers Trivia!

1. True or False? In 1983, the Clippers briefly left Nanaimo and changed their name to the Esquimalt Buccaneers.

2. True or False? In 2007, the defeated the Vees and won the Fred Page Cup on home ice.

3. True or False? Only 8 players that have played for the Nanaimo Clippers have proceeded on to the NHL.

4. True or False? The Nanaimo Clippers have won the Fred Page Cup 5 times!

5. True or False? The Nanaimo Clippers were founded in 1972.

6. True or False? The original owner of the Nanaimo Clippers was Cliff McNabb.

7. True or False? The Clippers name came from a local team of the Nanaimo Minor Hockey Association of the same name.

8. True or False? The Nanaimo Clippers became league champions in 1987 when the refused to finish the series citing rough play.

9. True or False? The mascot of the Nanaimo Clippers is named Mr. Clipper.

10. True or False? The Nanaimo Clippers used to play at the Nanaimo Civic Arena before .

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C-Dog Puzzle Glue this page to a scrap piece of cardboard then cut out the pieces to create your own C-Dog Puzzle!

Reading Comprehension

Jack Prestley Remembers his Time with the Clippers

By Kait Burgan https://www.nanaimoclippers.com/jake-prestley-remembers-his-time-with-the-clippers

Jack Prestley was 18-years old when he came to Nanaimo in 1945, long before the Hockey League was even founded. That didn’t happen until 1961. Back in the 1940’s, there were only three teams, Vancouver, New Westminster and Nanaimo, with some exhibition games with Victoria and UBC. The arena in Victoria had a support beam in the middle of the ice to keep the roof up.

Jack Prestley moved from Nelson where he was making 44 cents an hour at a car garage. The Nanaimo Clippers offered him a dollar, and he accepted. He played defence for the first couple of years and then moved to forward, playing with the Clippers until 1947.

“I really loved to play the game, and I guess I was good at it,” he says from his North Nanaimo home. His passion shifted from hockey to a pretty redhead he met just as his hockey career was taking off, but he insists that is another story and this particular story is about hockey. The game was different back then, and today, Jack doesn’t even watch it. It’s not the hockey he remembers at all. “It’s spoiled to me. The guy’s not even carrying the puck, and guys are finishing the check. The puck carrier is not ready for this. He’s passed it on and then slam! I just hate watching stretchers coming out on the ice.” His memories are fond ones though, and hockey will always hold a special place in his heart.

“The game I learned was: you carry the puck, making plays along the way to making a goal to score. Today’s game is: you get it up to centre ice and shoot it in the end. What I grew up with was possession is the name of the game.” Jack coached “Billy” Bestwick when Bill was “just a baby, ” and he remembers in Nelson when there was a senior Maple Leafs Club. “When the war came on, we lost a lot of the guys and the teams all folded,” he recalls. The situation opened some doors for Jack because even though he was a junior, he was invited to play with the seniors. The older guys made rinks out of snow, and on one particular day, a day he remembers as if it was yesterday, “… this fella came over to the edge of our rink and said ‘Hey kid! Yeah, you! You wanna come play with us?’” Jack did, and he kept playing with them from then on. “It was a happy time. They coached you and kind of fathered you.”

Jack has lived, and relives, a quintessential time in Canadian hockey. He played on frozen lakes and admired Tim Horton and Gordie Howe. He used to carry Red Carr’s skates, Red offered Jack a spot with Pittsburgh, but Jack declined, choosing instead to pursue the pretty redhead that had captured his heart, over stinky locker rooms and long bus rides. That spot in the Eastern Semi-pro League with Pittsburgh would have put him right next door to the NHL.

Maybe one day we’ll get that other story from Jack, the one about the pretty redhead, but in the meantime, Jack holds dear memories of his time with the Nanaimo Clippers, memories that go back to before many of us were even born.

Use the article to answer the following questions in full sentences.

1.) How old was Jack when he moved to Nanaimo?

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2.) What did the Nanaimo Clippers offer Jack to play on the team?

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3.) What positions did Jack play for the Nanaimo Clippers?

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4.) What event caused Jack to be invited to play with the senior team?

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5.) When was the British Columbia Hockey League founded?

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Logo Design Design a new logo for the Nanaimo Clippers! You can use previous logos for inspiration or create something entirely new!

Math Match

Find the solution to each problem to match the Clipper Alumni to their team photo! Remember to use the correct order of operations and show your work.

1. 2010-2011 19

29 + 38 =

2. 2011-2012 390

546 – 156 =

3. 2012-2013 27

5 x 5 – 6 =

4. 2013-2014 274

54 / 2 =

5. 2014-2015 67

255 + 22 – 3 =

Fill in the Blanks

When people say “hockey is my life,” they’re usually referring to how much they watch, how enthusiastic a fan they are or how many ______they get to attend in person but for Nanaimo’s Michael Olson, that often haphazardly ‘thrown around’ phrase is taken literally.

Olson grew up in Tisdale, Saskatchewan and came to Nanaimo to play for the Clippers in 2002. He stayed with the team until 2005 when he received a ______to St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. From there, in 2009, he played for a year with Boise’s Idaho Steelheads before ______to the Clippers as Assistant Coach, alongside Head Coach Bill Bestwick. He continued as Assistant ______until 2013, under Mike Vandekamp.

“When we played, we were definitely the draw in town,” he recalls. “I remember going to the grocery stores or the ______and being recognized by young fans and being asked for ______.” Olson continues to explain that the team saw themselves as ambassadors not only for the team but the city. “We had a gigantic sense of pride in the ______and the colours we wore. There would be 2200 people at ______on a Friday night, and that was a reflection on us. It’s more than a game; it’s a ______.”

Word Bank Frank Crane Arena games scholarship coach returning jersey movies autographs responsibility

Colouring Page Don’t forget to share your creations on social media! Tag us and use #InThisTogether and #TeachingTuesday so we can see!

Craig Gaudet, Michael Olson, Blair Lefebvre and Kris Kestell with the Mowat Cup