Canada’s top junior ball hockey players are gearing up for the Canadian Junior National Championships, which will take place in Winnipeg from July 28 to 31.<\/div>\n
Over 40 teams from across the nation will be competing at three different rinks — Keith Bodley Arena, Bell MTS Iceplex and Canada Life Centre, home of the Winnipeg Jets.<\/div>\n
“We’re very excited. Typically junior events and stuff like that, they’re not playing in facilities of that calibre,” said Jeff Dzikowicz, technical director of the Manitoba Ball Hockey Association.<\/div>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":297820722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_classifai_error":"","_classifai_text_to_speech_error":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20,21,6],"tags":[],"education-subject":[],"media-literacy-topic":[],"post_topic":[],"content_type":[24],"class_list":["post-576681722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-west","category-news","category-sports"],"acf":{"short_title":"","seo_title":"","deck":"","story_tag":"","byline":"By Cody Sellar","updates":null},"apple_news_notices":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/sports\/2022\/07\/20\/winnipeg-gears-up-to-host-ball-hockey-nationals","meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Winnipeg gears up to host ball hockey nationals","url":"http:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/sports\/2022\/07\/20\/winnipeg-gears-up-to-host-ball-hockey-nationals","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/sports\/2022\/07\/20\/winnipeg-gears-up-to-host-ball-hockey-nationals"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/07\/NEP572851_web_cs-supplied-ballhockey-july20.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/07\/NEP572851_web_cs-supplied-ballhockey-july20.jpg"},"articleSection":"Free Press Community Review: West","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"feedloaderapi"}],"creator":["feedloaderapi"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Our Communities","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2022-07-20T07:00:00Z","datePublished":"2022-07-20T07:00:00Z","dateModified":"2022-07-22T15:51:33Z"},"rendered":"