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Dear Winnipeg: A love letter from San Jose
By Paul Gackle, San Jose Mercury News
SAN JOSE — My four-day break from Sharks hockey this month was rudely interrupted when my mother, in Winnipeg, called to ask: why are those guys trashing our city?
She must have her facts wrong, I thought. Whenever I discussed my hometown with Sharks players, they told me how glad they were that the NHL returned to Winnipeg in 2011. It’s a great hockey town, they told me, Winnipeg deserves a team.
I jumped on my laptop and quickly learned that a video had surfaced where a few Sharks were shown describing Winnipeg as the worst NHL city.
It’s cold, they said. (True.)
It’s dark. (Not true; Winnipeg is the second-sunniest city in Canada.)
Read the full story in the San Jose Mercury News.