from the CP at the Toronto Star,
Former NHL player John Chabot is emailing a group of nearly a dozen other former hockey players about what they should bring for a game they’re playing this week in a remote northern community that lays claim to being the birthplace of hockey.
Chabot, who played with the Pittsburgh Penguins, Montreal Canadiens and Detroit Red Wings during the 1980s, has been to Deline in the Northwest Territories before, so he knows how to dress for the area.
Others, he says, are novices when it comes to the Arctic cold.
“I’ve been telling them to dress for the coldest day they’ve ever had and then layer two more times,” says Chabot, speaking from his home in Ottawa.
“I’ve told them stories where I’ve walked down the street and the only thing you see are my eyes. Everything else is bundled up.”