Rick the Temp’s off-camera antics chronicled

New twist in Hellebuyck saga, suspension ends Friday

Connor Hellebuyck has played the reverse Uno card.

What we don’t know is if he has any intention of coming back to friendly Manitoba or if this is simply the latest attempt to put the Winnipeg Jets feet to the flames in an effort to move him to an American market.

Prior to puck drop on Saturday afternoon, when the Jets were getting set to host the Carolina Hurricanes, Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet reported that the three-time Vezina Trophy winner and one-time Hart Trophy winner informed the organization he wanted to return on Oct. 2 and that his holdout has now shifted to a team-imposed suspension that can officially come to an end Friday.

The Jets were able to extend his suspension (for failing to report to training camp) because of a clause in the collective bargaining agreement, Article 15.13, subsection (c)(v), which reads: “If a player who has not received permission to be absent from training camp returns to the club, he shall be subject to a disciplinary suspension of reasonable length.”

Hurricanes’ pressure too much for Jets

Oh, how the tables have turned.

Nikolaj Ehlers spent 10 years making a big impact for the Winnipeg Jets, scoring 234 goals along the way. On Saturday, he got his first against his former team.

And it was a doozy.

Ehlers’ power-play tally early in the third period snapped a tie and proved to be the game-winner in a 3-2 victory for the Carolina Hurricanes in front of 14,415 at Canada Life Centre.

Fight to keep Canada whole has pulled together strange political bedfellows and diverse groups

Fight to keep Canada whole has pulled together strange political bedfellows and diverse groups

Rick the Temp’s off-camera antics chronicled

For many elder millennials and young Gen Xers, Rick Campanelli was the face of entertainment television.

Campanelli got his start on MuchMusic after he won a competition to become an intern, because of which he earned the long-standing nickname Rick the Temp. It wasn’t long before that internship turned into regular on-air hosting gigs at the nation’s music station, and the fresh-faced 20-something was cemented as a pop-culture icon in Canada.

In his new memoir, Tempted, Campanelli details his life before and after Much, but with a considerably darker throughline than his jolly persona would indicate. For much of his adult life, Campanelli dealt with a crippling gambling addiction.

But first, Campanelli chronicles in exhaustive detail his early life in Hamilton, Ont., growing up as a first-generation Canadian in a large Italian family. These early chapters move slowly, but it’s easy to discern how important the anecdotes, descriptions and family members are to him.

Hockey teams scramble after two city arenas put on ice

Instead of ice, Barry Bonni walks onto a dull concrete surface at the Terry Sawchuk Memorial Arena on Thursday.

The arena, as well as the West Kildonan Memorial Arena, have had to close after failing inspections. Predictably, the city’s hockey community is in a tailspin because ice time is so precious.

“We’re now in panic mode,” said Bonni, president of the River East Royal Knights on Thursday. The Sawchuk arena is the team’s home rink.

Bonni, who is a living legend in Manitoba’s hockey community, said the Manitoba Major Junior Hockey League club is scrambling to find ice time.