The Quiet Captain
The following article featuring former Yale standout Matthew Thomey appeared in the November 23 issue of the Compass.
By Andrew Robinson
When he first started playing hockey as a five-year-old at the Stadium in Harbour Grace, Matthew Thomey had to be up for 6:30 a.m. practices, either with the help of his father Paul Thomey or grandfather John Thomey.
Paul and John were both hard-core hockey fans rooting for the Montreal Canadiens, and the eldest Thomey was a member of the Conception Bay CeeBees team that won its first Herder Memorial Trophy in 1960.
Fifty years later, the 24-year-old grandson of John is now the captain of the CeeBee, and is looking to follow in his grandfather's footsteps by hoisting the Herder, which is symbolic of senior hockey supremacy in this province.
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