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WINNIPEG — Jonathan Toews belted the first ball at Pine Ridge this morning, kicking off the Canadian Tour’s Players Cup week that now has his name on it.
The Winnipegger and Chicago Blackhawks captain sat in on a question-and-answer session with 72 kids this morning, then signed for a long line of autographs before the start of the Boston Pizza Jonathan Toews Fore Kids Golf Classic in support of the Children’s Rehabilitation Foundation.
Last year’s inaugural kids-oriented Monday, which has 72 kids and 72 adults paired for the tournament, raised $100,000 for the Foundation.
Just before former Canadian Tour champion Rob McMillan and tour pro Izzy Beisiegel conducted a short-game clinic for the kids, Toews fielded some sticky subjects with his young questioners.
“Some questions I’ve got to watch myself,” he chuckled later. “You don’t want to say the wrong thing. Some loaded questions. Tougher than you guys sometimes.”
One of those questions was about who was the toughest team for the Blackhawks last season, and he said Vancouver and Boston, the two teams that wound up in the final.
“It’s fun to win against that team (Vancouver), obviously,” he said later about the playoff rivalry that saw the teams go seven games this spring. “I think both teams enjoy that rivalry because it brings out your best. That’s what playoffs are all about, playing that scrappy 110 per cent hockey.
“That’s what happens. We love to talk about it, everyone loves to gossip about it. Hey, playoffs have been done for a while and we’re still talking about it.”
Early in this Canadian Tour week, it’s all Toews, all the time.
Tuesday, Toews will be the feature attraction among 17 other present and former NHL stars like Brian Campbell and Doug Gilmour, plus 18 Canadian Tour pros, at the Free Press Jonathan Toews and Friends Celebrity Pro-Am.
The $200,000 Canadian Tour championship winner, now called the Players Cup Hosted by Jonathan Toews, has an invite to next week’s RBC Canadian Open in Vancouver and begins in earnest on Thursday at Pine Ridge.
tim.campbell@freepress.mb.ca
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