Canada Life Centre

I'm doing amazing.

I spent Friday and Saturday at the Canada Life Centre.

How could I possibly complain?

Yeah.

Yeah.

[laughs] Um, yeah, no, I'm doing great.

I, much like you, spent two of my days at, uh, at Canada Life Centre.

I get to watch my undefeated Niners go back into action today, so excited for that.

Have a great call today for fans that are wondering what to do with their Sunday afternoon.

Perfect time to be able to come down to Canada Life Centre and catch the second game in this back-to-back against the Wolves.

Thanks so much, Finger.

Thanks for having me.

With the adjusted, our buddy Mike McIntyre, let me just pull up the new numbers.

With the renovations that were done this year at Canada Life Centre, the new capacity number is 15,209, which is what the number was in terms of attendance tonight.

How

many more seats are there this year? No,

I

didn't realize they lost that many seats, but...

Well, apparently 15209 is the new capacity number at Canada Life Centre.

The reason is the revisions behind the visitor's bench to install a tunnel took away a lot of those seats, which makes sense when you think about it.

He's Mr.

Automatic in game ones at Canada Life Centre.

Nine straight.

That's just incredible.

It seems like because the season started Tuesday and we've been watching all this hockey all week, that it's like the Jets are starting really late.

But I think maybe that's just going to make it an even more exciting atmosphere at Canada Life Centre.

Right, Dave? So, yeah, let's go, boys.

26-27 season.

You've been there since the beginning of September, really, since the informal captain skates began almost a month ago.

As you were there...

Earlier this morning at Canada Life Centre, the Jets were going through their morning skate routine.

What was the feeling you were getting? Are these guys ready to go? Have they been champing at the bit? I mean, obviously, you know, training camp was shorter, like I mentioned.

And closing out the first 10 moments of our countdown, we have the multiple times Winnipeg hosted preseason NBA exhibition games.

Both the old Winnipeg Arena and the current Canada Life Centre have hosted multiple NBA games involving the Philadelphia 76ers, Chicago Bulls, Denver Nuggets, Toronto Raptors, Minnesota Timberwolves, Atlanta Hawks, Golden State Warriors, Detroit Pistons, and Vancouver Grizzlies, among others.

Manitoba actually has the distinction of hosting the first ever meeting between the Raptors and the Grizzlies at the Winnipeg Arena in the fall of 1995.

Securing an NBA game to come to Manitoba is a large task, and when they do come, the impact of the moment is real.

Winning both in the same year, in the same night was a defining high-performance moment, reflecting the strength of Manitoba's athletes, coaches, development programs, and provincial team system.

At number eight, the Winnipeg Sea Bears professional basketball era.

The Sea Bears made their CEBL debut in 2023 before more than nine thousand fans at an electric Canada Life Centre, with Manitoban and captain Chad Posthumus scoring the franchise's first game-winning basket.

Established by owner David Asper, the franchise is now led by the University of Winnipeg head coach Mike Rainbow, who serves as the Sea Bears head coach and general manager.

Absolutely.

But, you know, it's great that they're able to open up the season here at home at Canada Life Centre.

It should be a great one.

And it's cool.

He gave his all.

He did his best.

You know, it wasn't entirely on the shoulders of the goaltenders in Edmonton that they didn't realize... their goals okay so he gets that taste and oftentimes it was better in a canadian market and yet opportunity arises in winnipeg and he goes yep i played on now three canadian or three nhl teams two of those are canadian but you guys also know the back story to this and i i was fortunate enough stew was one of the the people that I sat down and interview in the director's lounge at Canada Life Centre yesterday morning.

And I'm not sure when that interview is going to roll out, but he is such a well-spoken and thoughtful guy.