After a 2 year hiatus, local hockey team the Black Aces have returned in 2019 to dominate the annual Nuit Blanche event in Toronto. Local art and beer league hockey lovers are thrilled to have the Aces back, as the last 2 Nuit Blanche events were widely considered Nuit Blah.
Aces art historian and silk cravat salesperson John M was on hand to give your scribe the highlights from what was definitely a milestone in Toronto art/hockey history.
“Not since Dave Bidini completed his ‘Fifty Slashes in Fifty Minutes’ performance piece at Moss Park Arena in 1994 has avant garde art combined with ice hockey so successfully” said a tired but happy John at 4am sunday. “The Aces stole the show with their bold vision and excellent playmaking.”
Your scribe did manage to visit several installations across the city and can confirm that the blackshirts did indeed make their presence felt.
This brilliant sculpture, entitled simply “7” depicts the total number of league championships the Aces are predicted to win before the eventual collapse of the biosphere and the extinction of all life as we know it. The team is already at 5. Just saying.
In this dramatic piece, onlookers are awed into submission by the projection of an enormous letter ‘A’ against a brilliant white background. The bent over tree represents the broken dreams of the other teams in the COTHL, while the bridge symbolizes a connection to the legions of past Aces players whose shoulders the current team stands upon.
Other installations included an interactive exhibit where visitors were given the opportunity to shotgun a tallboy and then crush it with a giant metal boot. Very popular, although not as popular as the Zamboni Girls Gone Wild exhibit. Too bad that one got shut down by Toronto Public Health. Something about illegal use of domestic animals and misuse of city ice cleaning equipment.
In actual hockey news, the Aces did pull off another win in their most recent match. The Warriors were the victims this time in spite of recruiting several players from blue and red to bolster their bench. The Aces rolled over them 7-3 anyway. Many players scored - Blair, uh, Pete D and a couple of others. Sorry, didn't take notes this week.
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