|
The calendar may say it’s still officially summer — at least until next week’s equinox — but the signs it’s about to become hockey season are all around me.
Earlier this week, it was the draft for my share of Jets tickets. Tonight, my beer league team holds its player draft so I’ll find out which Charleswood Men’s Hockey League team signed me despite the upper-body injury this summer after getting slashed by my mandoline slicer.
(Side note to anyone into sports betting: The bandage is finally off today and my middle finger should be good to go … although there’s no guarantee my hockey hands will be any softer.)
And tomorrow, the Jets training camp opens, along with the latest instalment of the Connor Hellebuyck soap opera.
We’re already on (well, near) the ice: Jets skate at the Hockey For All Centre last Tuesday. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
Even in the off-season, the stories we write about the Jets are consistently among our most-read. I’d like to think that has a lot to do with the fact we have two dedicated beat writers — Mike McIntyre and Ken Wiebe — and we are one of the few papers left in the country still sending reporters on road trips.
But I’m also not naïve enough to ignore the fact that, when it comes to the Jets, many readers have a bottomless appetite for more.
If you’re among the hungry, consider subscribing to The Warm-Up, our pre-game newsletter that will set the table for 82 servings of Jets through the regular season, plus whatever bonus hockey is delivered by a playoff run.
It arrives in your inbox roughly two hours before faceoff and is packed with the latest on the Jets and that day’s opponents. And it’s free — even if you aren’t a Free Press subscriber.
We will have a training camp version of this digital newsletter ready to land in inboxes on Saturday.
And Connor, if you want to know how things are going on the ice with your Jets teammates, you can sign up here.
|
