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.

ThatSA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™s it, the holidays are over, itSA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™s back to school! The opportunity to look back on what happened this summer on the tatami mats in Yellowknife and talk about the future.

ItSA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™s been nearly 18 months since Wren Acorn had a meaningful speedskating event to attend SA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½” February 2020, to be exact.

So the city of Glendale, Arizona told the Arizona Coyotes itSA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™s ending the lease between it and the city at the CoyotesSA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™ home arena. HereSA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™s a telling line from the city in a tweet on Aug. 19: