It is DND Family Day here in Halifax with a few things happening today. There were kids out in the harbour riding around on skidoos at lunch time and the Memorial Cup trophy made an appearance at CFB Halifax.
NHL DRAFT
Earlier in the week, Joe Sakic made the statement that the Colorado Avalanche would not be taking Seth Jones first overall in the upcoming NHL draft and will instead chose one of three forwards. Willy Palov has a good article breaking down this new drama of the draft analyzing the statement that Sakic told the Denver Post. You can read that analysis here. On the other hand, Andrew Rankin has now reported that former NHL coach Doug MacLean would "be shocked if [Nathan MacKinnon] isn't No. 1". Here is that story.
MACKINNON
Talking about MacKinnon, he was in Toronto this week after spending the Monday night in Boston. He posted this picture on Twitter this afternoon mentioning that he was doing training.
ALBERTA
I would like to send my prayers and thoughts out to the city of Calgary and cities in Southern Alberta as they are struggling with flooding. According to pictures and Eric Francis of the Calgary Sun the water level of the flood, which started last week in Fort MacMurray, is up to Row 10 at the Calgary Saddledome. The Calgary Saddledome is home to the Calgary Hitmen of the Western Hockey League. According to the release, the dressing rooms are also flooded and there is one miilion dollars worth of damage so far.
Story of the flood first hit the news last Wednesday with Fort Mac having heavy rains for days in a row which caused the flooding. Obviuosly the weather travelled down to Calgary and Southern Alberta.
Press release.
Photo: Nathan MacKinnon's Instagram account
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