It ended Thursday morning the way it began last Saturday, in the airport of a snow-covered capital of a northern Canadian territory, the temperature outside hovering around the -20 C mark.
The day in the birthplace of hockey began with National Hockey League players being greeted by the entire population of 600 at the shack which serves as the community airport, the only way in or out of the village.
DELINE, NWT – If you’re going to travel through Canada’s north, you’ve got to go in style.
When Canadian North flight 444 from Edmonton touched down here into the snow-swept capital of the Northwest Territories at 9:30 a.m. Sunday, John Chabot finally allowed himself to take a deep breath.
YELLOWKNIFE, NWT – This wasn’t your run of the mill game day morning for NHL players. No charter flight and team baggage handlers Sunday morning. After a 6 am wake-up call, players were lugging their bags and sticks through the Edmonton airport at 7 am, jumping aboard Canadian North (“Seriously North” is the airline motto) [...]
We’re off. Photographer Julie Oliver and I are on our way to the North — way, way North — to watch the Ottawa Senators’ Craig Anderson, Chris Phillips, Chris Neil, Zack Smith, Marc Methot, Guillaume Latendresse and fellow NHLers Grant Clitsome, Jordin Tootoo, Jim Slater and others for a three-game charity tour of the Northwest Territories and Yukon.