that hockey thing (and the racing connection)

So the Canucks are up to something, all good hopefully. But there is a hockey history to the early days of motorsport around here. Midget racing, introduced first in 1937 and then brought back on a regular basis in 1939, was the brain child, in the northwest at least, by hockey promoters Bobby Rowe, of Portland, and Guy Patrick, of Vancouver.

Rowe was player/coach of the Buckaroos and had played on early teams including the Seattle Metropolitans that won the Stanley Cup in 1917. Patrick was the brother of Frank and Lester, hockey hall of famers.

So, yeah, hockey helped bring in midget racing to Vancouver.