They aren’t called “sits”: Hockey dads watch as the North Shore Winterhawks take on the Langley Eagles Feb. 20 in the President’s Cup Classic U18 hockey tournament in Sherwood, Ore. (Photo by Matthew Ginn © 2011)

A couple of weeks ago, I was invited to stop by the Sherwood Ice Arena during the President’s Cup Classic hockey tournament organized by the Portland Junior Hawks youth hockey association. The tournament is a Midget (U18) affair that draws a dozen teams from up and down the west coast. The game I saw featured the Langley (B.C.) A-2 Eagles against the North Shore Winter Club Winterhawks of North Vancouver, B.C. The game ended tied at 3.