Former NHL forward turned broadcaster Jim Fox has been around the world in pursuit of the best wine. Here are his Top 5 wine destinations:
- Wine Tour on bike on the outskirts of Beaune, Burgundy, France
- Barrel tasting at Roberto Voerzio Winery, La Morra, Barolo, Piedmonte, Italy
- Tasting Class and barrel tasting at Chateau Lynch Bages, Pauillac, Bordeaux, France)
- Dinner and tasting at Savier Vineyards, just southeast of Calistoga, California, at sunset looking back over Napa Valley
- Anywhere in Tuscany, Italy followed by a glass of wine in the Piazza del Campo, Siena, Tuscany, Italy
Lake of the Woods, known more as a remote wildlife habitat straddling Minnesota and Canada, is also a summer favorite of Los Angeles Kings center Mike Richards. The former Flyers captain has become an avid wakeboarder/wakesurfer at the lake when he's not on the ice. "It’s starting to" catch on, Richards said. "It’s relaxing to get out there with all your friends and spend a day on the lake."
JP
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Blaine Byron is putting himself (and tiny Kemptville) on the map.
Author: Dan Hickling
This is another in an occasional series of pieces spotlighting 2013 NHL Draft hopefuls
KEMPTVILLE, Ontario — Blaine Byron isn’t hard to spot, but guys like him are really hard to find.
Huh?
Well, to watch him skate the pivot for the Kemptville 73’s of the Central Canada Hockey League, you’d swear there were two of him. There he is, swiveling through the offensive zone, looking, and usually finding, a friendly stretch of tape to put the puck on.
Kemptville 73's center Blaine Byron has a chance at being chosen in the 2013 NHL draft All photos by Dan Hickling
But wait a moment.
There is No. 9 again, this time streaking into the D-zone to thwart yet another opposing puck carrier.
In between there are the faceoffs won, the penalties killed, the minutes chewed up and the leadership rendered, all for a 73’s club, named for the year that junior hockey came to Kemptville, that lately has been losing games by five tallies per tilt.
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A softer touch: Worrell handles youngsters with kid gloves
Author: Dan Hickling
Peter Worrell (left) with Brad Church. All photos by Dan Hickling.
PORTLAND, Maine – Back in the day, Brad Church, coach of the Portland Junior Pirates, had himself a pretty good professional career.
A coupla games in the NHL (with Washington), a lengthy tour of the minors, following which he began his coaching path.
He had enough of a career to have known about feared enforcer Peter Worrell, and known enough not to even think about tangling with him.
Now, in a much different place and time, Church is plenty grateful that hockey games are still settled by play on the ice, not by fist-fights between the each team’s head coach.
“It would be a forfeit,” said Church.
Now Church was tough enough and big enough to answer any bell when that rang.
But Worrell?
That would have been another matter.
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