"One of the many wonderful Labrador people I have known was my great friend, Cyril Michelin of North West River who I met on a cold New Year’s Day when as a young boy I was playing a game of hockey on the river near Cyril’s home.

There were no boards around the ice, just banks of snow shoveled from cleaning the ice.  During the game, Greg Michelin checked me into the snow bank and as I wiped the snow off my face and tried to get back on the ice, this funny man playfully held me back and..."

Read more of Gordie Rendell’s story, "The One That Didn’t Get Away," in Them Days Vol. 31 No. 4.