Hart Highlands rink paved way to NHL career for defenceman Brandon Manning
Long before her brother Brandon made it to hockey’s top rung as an NHL defenceman, Jessica Manning paid her dues fetching loose pucks for him on the outdoor rink where they both learned to skate.
“I still came back. I’d get paid 10 cents a bucket to pick up all the pucks he shot into the net. He’d shoot 50 of them and I’d go pick them up. If it wasn’t for my puck picking-up skills he might not have made it to the NHL.” “If the kids are playing two hours a day with their buddies, they’re touching the puck the entire time,” said Leroy. “If I flooded it at night he’d go on it before school sometimes, he liked it.”
“We go out almost every day, every afternoon,” said Connor’s mom Katlyn, Leroy’s oldest daughter. “We all live in the same neighbourhood and papa stops by for an hour or so and it works out well. Almost every day there’s kids here using it.”
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