Looking for diversions from the Olympics? Couldn’t get tickets to the gold medal hockey game? Look no further than the Langley Playhouse for some genuine Canadian hockey action.

The Langley Players Drama Club’s winter production of The Good Game by B.C. playwright Roy Teed is a fast-paced contemporary Canadian comedy featuring four old-timer hockey players who reunite 30 years after winning the Nestor Cup three times in a row.

Their goals is to prove that their aging bodies still have what is takes to play a good game of hockey, to please the fans, and of course, to vanquish the young junior team they are playing against.

Meet Charlie Boyd, Zack Taylor, CJ MacDonald and Francois “Pinkie” LaVac in the dressing room as they prepare for the “game of the century.”

They are joined by Samantha Brown, a national radio reporter who began her broadcasting career by interviewing these players 30 years earlier.

Play-by-play action, provided by Nestor’s own Brian B., along with colour commentary by Jim, puts the audience in the goal crease, so to speak.

Director Helen Embury returns to Langley Players after her box office hit Steel Magnolias last January.

“I want to encourage all the gals who loved Steel Magnolias to bring the men in their lives to see this play, which is Canadian to the core,” she said.

Other key members of the production team are first-time producer Leslie Gaudette, and stage manager Cyndy Dwyer.

Four of the play’s cast members call Langley home. Ken Boyd appears as Zach, the home-town boy who became a mechanic and took over his father’s automotive business. Boyd is well known to Langley audiences from his previous roles in The Boys Next Door and The Long Weekend.

Raymond Hatton plays CJ MacDonald, a hockey player turned English professor. Hatton is performing at the Langley Playhouse for the first time, following an award-winning stint as set co-decorator for Steel Magnolias.

He has also appeared in the smash hit The Norbals at Surrey Little Theatre and as Paris in the Emerald Pig production of Romeo and Juliet, performed in Langley’s Douglas Park last August.

Philip Hale who brings the role of Brian B. to life, acted in Bedtime Stories, The Boys Next Door and The Long Weekend, while Joe Tenta, who plays Jim, comes from playing Duncan Cameron in The Last Real Summer and has also appeared in Bedtime Stories, The Boys Next Door and Penumbra.

These Langley residents are joined by Garth Loeppky from Vancouver, who takes on the role of Charlie, the team’s goalie.

Loeppky brings experience gained from various roles in The Lawyer Show, an annual fund-raiser produced by Touchstone Theatre, featuring an all-lawyer cast and, alone among the cast, played ice hockey in his middle years.

The role of Samantha Brown, radio reporter for the “Mother Corp,” is performed by multiple award-winner Jacqollyne Keath who brings a wealth of theatre experience to the role.

Keath was last seen at the Langley Players in Blythe Spirit and recently appeared as Lady Capulet in the Emerald Pig production of Romeo and Juliet during the Fraser Valley Zone Festival.

Pascal Belanger, who brings his Quebecois heritage to the role of Pinkie, also has special skills in boxing and dancing to add to his interpretation of this role.

Langley Players present The Good Game

Date: Jan. 28 to Feb. 27

Time: Thursday to Saturday 8 p.m.

Sunday matinees, 2 p.m.

Admission: $15/$12

Venue: Langley Playhouse

4307 200 St.

Tickets: 604-534-7469

langleyplayers.com