Sioux Lookout

We didn't win, but we had a great and very memorable experience.

I played a lot of senior hockey also in a community called Sioux Lookout, where I was a young teacher.

And you might not know this, Rich, but I also played a fifth year of collegiate hockey as an aspiring teacher in Canada, in Ontario.

I played at Lakehead University in a league called the Great Plains Athletic Conference.

We went out to Winnipeg and Brandon and Regina.

and competed while I was training to be a teacher.

Went up to Sioux Lookout, as I mentioned, for first-year experiences.

I both played and coached the senior team up there and coached the high school team and did all sorts of interesting things.

Sasquatch Sam comes into the studio and talks about this event on October 10th.

I know in a lot of the previous episodes, Ben, we've talked to Ken Dokes, who told his police chief in Sioux Lookout, Indigenous police chief, we talked about his experience with Sabé.

We've had Dr. Jonathan Pitt talk about Sabé, and actually that was at the Memorial Gardens at the Holman Garden Show one year.

And we've had people from Ontario, Peter Smith on the show as well.

That was-

From Edmonton all the way to Sioux Lookout, Ontario.

It took, like, 48 hours.

It was awesome.

Well, I think the great thing about our coaching staff is all three of us were head coaches last year.

Frank, in this program, Niagara Falls Canucks, Carson was the head coach of the Sioux Lookout Bombers in the Superior International Junior League.

And I had my own U18 team for a couple of years.

here in the southern tier so we all have experiences at the head coach level we all bring our own ideas what has worked for us what hasn't worked for us and when we get together and we put our three minds together and try and figure out what was best for the different opportunity that's with our hockey team that i think that's both well because we've all had experience doing it recently

I can have some real experience in doing that just because I know where these kids have been in the last year and I know where they're going to now and where they're hopefully going to go in the future.

So I think I can bring that to the bench really quick.

Carson dealt with a little bit of an older player out of the Sioux Lookout because it was so remote up in Northern Ontario.

And Frank's just running his program, running his team, trying to find the best players he can.

A lot of people will use that metaphor of I want to spend more time with my family.

And for some people, I'm absolutely sure that's true because the role is a big role, whether you are the mayor of Toronto or whether you are a councillor in Sioux Lookout.

Doesn't really matter.

It's still a lot of work.

Like even in, you know, like I went, okay.

It was for me, summer of grade five going into grade six, I think is when I took a two day train to Ontario from here to small town, Sioux lookout.

And it was, like, $3.50 for, like, my brother and my mom to go.

And they had certain rates for, like, if you're under 16, you'll get it cheap.

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While visiting Sioux Lookout in Ontario, I caught walleye." That's what many of us call pickerel, but walleye is what they call it up in Northwestern Ontario and in the northern US.

"And I glimpsed, near Sioux Lookout, my first moose.

How privileged am I, I, I am to call this place home." Yes, we all are.

No doubt about that.

Love Sioux Lookout, by the way.

Spent a lot of time in Sioux Lookout in the early '70s.

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