

“It was just the energy of the whole city and our group.” “It was an electric atmosphere,” Bierk, now the goaltending coach for the Ottawa Senators, said in an interview with A Taste of the Kawarthas Magazine in 2019. 910 save percentage that season and anchoring the team in crucial moments. While not as internationally renowned as some members of his family, Bierk was a local celebrity, putting up a. Better known among the Kawarthas, Bach’s brother Zac Bierk was the Petes’ goalie from 1993-97, and started in 58 games for the maroon and white that season. At the time, Bach and the band were coming off the release of their 1995 chart-topping record Subhuman Race and had just returned from a string of shows in South Korea and Thailand.īach (born Sebastian Bierk) came from a family of local artists his father, David, painted the picture of Queen Elizabeth II that hangs above the skybox at the Memorial Centre, while his sister, Dylan, is a model and actress. That man was Peterborough native Sebastian Bach, the lead singer of famed glam metal band Skid Row. Then, he belted out a version of the Canadian national anthem that evoked shades of Axl Rose or, in Canadian terms, Rush’s Geddy Lee. As he reached the Petes logo, he turned friskily, smiled charismatically, and pointed towards the boards with a laid-back nod. Dressed exclusively in black, with long, blond hair falling down the middle of his back, he carried a microphone connected to a seemingly endless cable in his right hand. Ross Robertson Cup Finals, a shadowy figure walked to centre ice at the Peterborough Memorial Centre. On May 16, 1996, just before the start of the OHL’s J.
