Date of Birth:Â 1975
Place of Birth:Â Middle Arm, NL
Inducted:Â 2025 (Player Category)
Hockey is a 200-foot game, and for more than a decade on the west coast, nobody embodied that like Rob Robinson. Rob Robinson played 10 seasons with the Deer Lake Red Wings winning two Herder Memorial Championships. Rob was in the corner doing the little things that make teams successful. Rob not only played on the top scoring line for the Red Wings, but his two-way game was also noticeable as one of the top penalty killers in the league for many years. But Robinsons game was nurtured as a teenager. He won his first of three Herders in 1994 as a nineteen-year-old with the La Scie Jets before playing two seasons of Junior Hockey with the Deer Lake Videos, winning the provincial Veitch Memorial Championship in 1996. Upon his graduation to senior, Robinson played two seasons with CBN Tigers before helping the Deer Lake Red Wings defeat the Flatrock Flyers in 2001 for the franchise’s first Herder. During the five-game series, Rob scored three goals and three assists, including the game and title clinching overtime goal in Game 5.
For more than 100 years, hockey has been the main winter sport in Newfoundland and Labrador. While it didn’t reach some areas of the province until the mid-1900s, hockey began its important and worthwhile impact on the Avalon Peninsula population in the 1890s.
Overcoming major obstacles to become a permanent aspect of life, hockey expanded from its St. John’s beginning into other areas of the Avalon Peninsula, especially Conception Bay and Bell Island, and followed industry and transportation into every section of the province. The expansion went across the island with Grand Falls, Buchans and Corner Brook leading the way.
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