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Another junior, Andrew Vogt, has also seen limited action this season due to injury, but he’s no stranger to playing through pain in high stakes ultimate competition. The Winnipeg native captained the Canadian junior national team both in 2006 and 2008. And when he was able to get in this season, according to Stubbs, “he played a like a rockstar...
...native of Winnipeg, Canada, Botterill has both ice-skating and Olympics in her blood as her mother competed in two Winter Games as a speed skater...
...Balsillie wants to purchase the Phoenix Coyotes - the Artists Formerly Known As the Winnipeg Jets. The cash-strapped Jets left Canada for Arizona more than 10 years ago - when nobody (with any degree of intelligence whatsoever) could've guessed that people who live in a desert might not dig hockey (especially if their team doesn't win regular-season games, let alone Stanley Cups). When the 'Yotes' owner filed for bankruptcy protection last week, Balsillie offered a win-win proposition: He would buy the club and move it to the richest and most ardent hockey market in the NHL - southern...
...whole of Canada - the birthplace of hockey - patiently waits to see if they'll finally be able to Make It Seven (teams up north), and Winnipeg crosses its frozen fingers in the hopes that their prodigal sons are finally coming home. And smack-dab in the midst of all this is, as always, Wayne Gretzky...
...drawling, very un-Liverpudlian narrative voice, calls "a valediction and an epitaph." Out on DVD this week from Strand Releasing, this film essay is a grand work, immensely funny and pained and deeply felt. Get the movie, and watch it on a double feature with Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg. You'll have two unforgettable trips through municipal memory...