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Not sure if it's been posted, but here's a really nice piece on Chef (and the first and last para for free, courtesy of JUK):
On the first Saturday of December 2017, it was a good day to be Mark Scheifele. For the first time since the Winnipeg Jets relocated to Manitoba from Atlanta in 2011, they held down first place in the NHL’s Western Conference – and were tied in points atop the NHL standings with the Tampa Bay Lightning.
“Hockey Night in Canada,” the program Scheifele watched religiously as a child growing up in Kitchener, Ont., was in town, serendipitously choosing this weekend to feature Winnipeg on its weekly Hometown Hockey segment. Practice was optional that day, which gave Scheifele extra time to go out to The Forks, a popular gathering place, where the Red and Assiniboine rivers meet and “Hockey Night” was taping a fan segment. By January, the rivers have usually frozen over to create the Red River Mutual Trail, which according to the Guinness Book of World Records, is the world’s longest natural skating trail.
[Read the rest at the link]
Mark Scheifele: An all-consuming passion for hockey
On the first Saturday of December 2017, it was a good day to be Mark Scheifele. For the first time since the Winnipeg Jets relocated to Manitoba from Atlanta in 2011, they held down first place in the NHL’s Western Conference – and were tied in points atop the NHL standings with the Tampa Bay Lightning.
“Hockey Night in Canada,” the program Scheifele watched religiously as a child growing up in Kitchener, Ont., was in town, serendipitously choosing this weekend to feature Winnipeg on its weekly Hometown Hockey segment. Practice was optional that day, which gave Scheifele extra time to go out to The Forks, a popular gathering place, where the Red and Assiniboine rivers meet and “Hockey Night” was taping a fan segment. By January, the rivers have usually frozen over to create the Red River Mutual Trail, which according to the Guinness Book of World Records, is the world’s longest natural skating trail.
[Read the rest at the link]
Mark Scheifele: An all-consuming passion for hockey
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