At 99 years old, hard-core Cape Breton Screaming Eagles fan Emerson Henderson doesn’t let age prevent him from cheering for his team.

Henderson attends nearly every single home game of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League team and says he doesn’t plan to stop anytime soon.

“You’re meeting a lot of good people, at intermission you’re roaming around and seeing a lot of people you haven’t seen in years,” says Henderson.

Just six months shy of his 100th birthday, there is nothing Henderson enjoys more than taking his seat behind the visiting net. Henderson has been a season ticketholder since the franchise began and he has great hopes for this year’s team.

“I think we’ve got a really good team this year,” says Henderson. “New boys are here, kind of making the older boys move a little faster.”

Henderson still moves pretty fast himself, and his daughter says his good health is no accident.

“He doesn’t take a pill for an ache or a pain,” says Mary Jane Henderson-MacDonald. “He exercises every day. He has an exercise bike, he lifts hand weights and he has a little exercise ball he gets on.”

The veteran fan has seen generations of hockey, dating back to the old Commercial League in the 1930s and 1940s.

“We used to get in for 10 cents,” says Henderson. “We would put one fella in for 10 cents and he’d go in and open the shutters so the rest of us could go in.”

These days, there is no need for Henderson to sneak in. He now gets star treatment from the Screaming Eagles and was recently presented with an autographed hockey stick in recognition of his 18 seasons of support for the team.

Henderson will turn 100 on March 25, just in time for the playoffs. While a long postseason run would be a perfect way to mark the milestone, Henderson says he is just grateful for everything he has already experienced.

“It’s just been a wonderful life all the way through. Good family, the whole kit n’ caboodle.”

With files from CTV Atlantic's Ryan MacDonald