Hehr becomes Canada’s new sport minister while his hometown mulls Olympic bid
CALGARY — An 18-year-old Kent Hehr was playing on a rotten hockey team in Saskatchewan when his hometown of Calgary was the host city of the 1988 Winter Olympics.
Canada’s new minister of sport remembers a feeling of missing out as his sister figure skated in the opening and closing ceremonies.
“I was playing junior hockey in Lloydminster, for the Lloydminster Lancers,” Hehr told The Canadian Press.
“It was the worst team in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League that year. It may have been the worst team in the history of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League.