Marquee quintet is must-see material
Just between us, and not to be shared with Regina Leader-Post management, I intend to spend Friday night goofing off while ostensibly working.
Honestly, it’s a scam.
The Regina Pats are to play host to the Kelowna Rockets in a Western Hockey League game that I am only “covering” in the broadest sense.
I will be watching the proceedings, while perhaps filing away some observations for future use, but not with the objective of writing specifically about that game.
Instead, I want to sit in the stands at the Brandt Centre — Section 102, Row 3 — with my all-world wife and be a spectator, shamelessly hoovering popcorn and licorice.
And why not? How often do you get to see five potential members of Canada’s world junior team in one game?
Centre Sam Steel and defenceman Josh Mahura are to represent the Pats at the selection camp, which is to begin Tuesday in St. Catharines, Ont.
Three Rockets players — forwards Kole Lind (who is from Shaunavon) and Dillon Dube, along with defenceman Cal Foote — will also be among the 32 hopefuls in St. Catharines.
Another drawing card is the fact that Regina is poised to play its first home game since Nov.
15. Moreover, I have not seen the Pats in person since Nov. 3, due to the imperative of writing daily Kevin Glenn columns from Ontario as long as the Saskatchewan Roughriders were in the CFL playoffs.
But now the Roughriders are done and the Pats are at home — where I plan to leave my notepad and laptop, if not my appetite.