If all goes well over the next few weeks, Joanne Weedmark just might bring some big money to Kinngait.

Ethan Anstey is a Fort McMurray Oil Baron no more.

Like every other hockey player who hit the ice last season, Logan CunninghamSA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™s season was very short because of Covid-19.

Had the ice been in at the Yellowknife Curling Centre yet, this would have been a great result.

One of the most impressive things over the past few years SA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½” at least to me SA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½” is the amount of young hockey players who have been given the chance to head south and get a shot.

Five Kivalliq cousins are heading south to play for the same Manitoba-based AAA hockey team this season.

Have you done the Milk Crate Challenge yet? I know I havenSA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™t and if I catch my oldest offspring doing it, sheSA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™ll have some SA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½˜splanin to do in addition to losing her phone.

Ah, the good olSA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™ days. Remember those? Those days when Michael Gilday was doing the North proud on the ice? Iqaluit trying to claim him as one of their own (technically they could because he was born there in the pre-Iqaluit, Nunavut days of Frobisher Bay, NWT)?

If you thought youSA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™d miss out on the 2023 Arctic Winter Games because youSA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™d be too old, you can breathe a sigh of relief.

Having any junior hockey last season was a minor miracle considering that so many other athletes were on the outside looking in thanks to the pandemic.