HOCKEY DAY IN CANADA

Well, folks, every year the CBC, that is the national broadcasting corporation owned by the federal government up in Canada, and host of Hockey Night In Canada for the last gazillion years does a hockey day in Canada. Tomorrow Canadians can tune in to 13 straight hours of everything hockey. Not only will they be broadcasting 3 back to back NHL games featuring all of the Canadian hockey teams but they will also doing feature spots around the country.

For you Duluthians out there you may want to tune into the CBC if you can get it down there for the Calgary Flames Edmonton Oiler contest. The town featured during that game will be the quaint little town of Camrose Alberta. They will be showing highlights of the Kodiak game during the broadcast and after the game will have a feature on the best Jr. A coach in the country noneother than Boris Rybalka. This is the fellow that has been the pipeline to the UMD program over the last number of years.

Canadian Content Dislodged

Well next up for the streaking Duluth dawgs are the Colorado College contingent. Doing my weekly survey it appears that this particular hockey program is not to keen on maintaining its Canadian content. Only three players hail from the great white north. Braydon Cox, a former gunner for the Sherwood Park Crusaders of the AJHL. Matt Zaba used to mind the twine in Vernon for the Vipers but is a wheat husker from Saskatchewan. The remaining compadre of this list of three amigo's is Scott McCullough who I happen to be familiar with for a number of reasons. He played in Grande Prairie which I know is about 6 hours from Fort McMurray. But his big brother (Harvard) David played for the Fort McMurray Oil Barons when they won the National Championship in 2000. Scott tried to repeat that task for his family with the Grande Prairie Storm but fell short of making the cut when they were beat out in the Doyle Cup by the British Columbia champions. The other reason I am familiar with Scott is because he spent a couple of summers playing hockey with the kid on a team called the Alberta Wolfpack. He and former National Jr. Captain Kyle Chipchura were teammates of the kid on this summer team that was practically invincible in that pee wee summer.

Looks like Scott is putting up some good numbers in this his third year with the CC contingent. He has netted 19 points this season, and the Dawgs had better stay out of the box this weekend as Scott already has 8 powerplay markers to his credit. Hopefully the kid will get a chance to play against this former teammate of his!