Four Sask. players named to Canada world junior hockey championship team
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Berkly Catton, Brayden Yager, Caden Price and Tanner Howe were all named.
One of Saskatchewan’s greatest new sports facilities is Merlis Belsher Place on the U of S campus. This spectacular Saskatoon venue is hosting a Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling event this week.
Merlis Belsher Place, which is less than a year old, is the home for the U of S Huskies men’s and women’s hockey teams. It would be the perfect setting to promote U Sports hockey like never before. However, someone or a group on campus decided that mesh needed to go all the way around the playing surface for fan safety in Year 1. (Mesh is only behind the nets in most spectator arenas.)
The mesh is a distraction when looking at the ice, it diminishes the quality of an expensive HD video screen at centre ice, and it makes the webcasts, and thus the facility, look second rate. Changing the black mesh to clear or white won’t help. The only solution is to have the mesh taken down along the side boards.
On occasion, universities get in the way of taking U Sports to the next level. Sadly, this is the latest example of that. Hopefully, for the fans’ sake, this is rectified for Season 2.