Ryan Whitney

Not going to lie.

Um, some of our fingers are still burning from, you know, the frostbite, but it's been, it's been like kind of a great experience here with my, my brother and I actually were, we're building a golf course for the community here.

Believe it or not, there's 600 people here.

And it's flying only in the summer, winter roads in the wintertime.

And, you know, so they kind of trusted us to do that.

And that's kind of how we got hooked up with Danny Gaudet and the community.

He's the chief out here.

Uh, so when, when, when Danny said, uh, he's, he's, he's a bit of a dreamer and a big dreamer when he said, you know, we want, we want to celebrate this 200th anniversary of the birthplace of hockey in Canada.

And, uh, we, we want this game to be outside and you, you got to set it up.

I think he gave us what, maybe, I don't know, three months.

So it's been a bit of an animal and my son, my son, Cal and Andrew Jackson, uh,

um, are kind of spearheading, you know, most of the, most of the work behind the scenes, but you know, the grunt work is always goes to the, to the dad here.

I'm going to ask for, for father dues coming up after all this work, but, uh, but these guys have worked extremely hard getting the players in.

We, we got like 22 ex NHLers coming in and I, I know we sent them a note to dress warm, but the last few mornings here, we were out on the, on, out on the lake, uh, working and,

It was minus 31, I think was without the wind and there was a little bit of a breeze.

So we were freezing a bit, but, but you know what?

It's beautiful out here and this is going to be well worth doing.

And what a list of guys that are there too.

I mean, Wendell's going, I think Dougie Gilmore said he was going to be going like, can you list a few more of the guys?

Oh, there's a list right there.