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Tavis Hansen

Canadian former ice hockey player

Sep 15, 2026

50:46
You know, there were no Westerners up there on the island.
50:50
Yeah, it's about an hour out of Sapporo.
50:52
Sapporo's like, you know, the big city there.
50:54
But yeah, it was a smaller city, Tamakamai, you know, for Japan standards.
50:59
Yeah, we were the only, like, when we'd walk around, my wife, you know, blonde hair, I mean, they thought she was like a movie star, right? There was a donut shop, Mr.
51:10
Donut, when my in-laws came to visit, they thought my father-in-law was Mr. Donut, right? Yeah, I mean, to your point, yeah, not a lot of – totally different than Tokyo.
51:23
I knew we were going to be in a little bit of a culture shock when one of the guys that played as a non-import, kind of like Bert, a guy from Minneapolis, Dan Dayakawa, he had played over there as a non-import for, I don't know, 10 or 12 years.
54:48
Now you're back doing hockey again.

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