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• At The Cult of Hockey: Edmonton Oilers Sunday scrimmage separates the men from the boys

  17-09-2017 22:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  The cream rises to the top.
  And that is what Edmonton Oilers fans were treated to, at Sunday’s public “Blue-and-White Game” at Rogers Place. High-end skill took over early and often, as Todd McLellan continued to stick with what looks to be his projected lines and pairings to start the regular season with.
  I’ve never met a rink I didn’t like, and so it sure felt good to walk into Rogers Place early on a Sunday morning. The experience was shared with several-thousand
  
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• Social Seen: Marc Cain grand opening

  17-09-2017 21:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  Codie McLachlan hits some of our city’s best bashes to snap photos for our weekly Social Seen column. He is an Edmonton photojournalist.
  Email your event suggestions to [email protected] or tweet Codie at @fotocodie. Follow Codie on Instagram (@fotocodie) and Facebook (facebook.com/fotocodie)
  Marc Cain grand opening
  Where: West Edmonton Mall
  When: Sept. 8
  Who: Marc Cain
  Featuring: Snacks and champagne from the European womenswea
  
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• Alexander Prior debuts with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra

  17-09-2017 20:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  A late-night concert, starting at 9:30 p.m. in the Winspear, might not seem the most obvious way of making your debut as the new Chief Conductor of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. But that’s what Alexander Prior decided to do on Friday, and it was a triumphant start, doubtless heralding an evolution of the orchestra.
  The ESO’s late night concert series generally has a younger demographic than the mainstream series, and Prior himself, of course, is at 24 very much of the millennial g
  
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• Huge privilege to handle the challenge of Maria

  17-09-2017 19:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical The Sound of Music premiered in 1959. The show was based on the memoir of Maria Augusta von Trapp, titled The Story of the Trapp Family Singers. It tells the story of the former governess who became stepmother to the talented family, and their folk singing that enabled their escape from the Nazis in Austria during the Second World War.
  The original Broadway production starred Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel and won five Tony Awards. The 1965 film adaptation
  
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• Runaway Wives and Rogue Feminists: former Edmonton journalist creates compelling tale of women's shelter history

  17-09-2017 19:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  It was a blue-sky conversation that lead Margo Goodhand to spend a year of her life driving around the country, recording the stories of the strong, scrappy, seat-of-their pants pioneers of the women’s shelter movement.
  The journalist and former editor-in-chief of the Edmonton Journal was talking with her sister, Joyce, who had worked with battered women throughout her career, about what the two of them would do if they had clear space, no responsibilities, a mortgage that was paid off.&nb
  
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• Police negotiating with man barricaded in Grande Prairie home

  17-09-2017 18:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  Grande Prairie residents are being warned to stay away from the Mission Heights neighbourhood as police deal with an armed man who has barricaded himself inside his home. 
  Cst. Gabrielle Spencer with Grande Prairie RCMP said Edmonton’s Emergency Response Team, including a negotiating unit, was on its way to Grande Prairie Sunday morning to assist.
  Spencer said police went to the man’s home, at 103 Street and 73 Avenue, after he called them just before 1 a.m.
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• Andrew Knack still stands unopposed as nomination day looms

  17-09-2017 17:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  Amid the pageantry and flashy buttons of Edmonton’s official nomination day, expect one candidate to be fairly zen. 
  Andrew Knack is so far running unopposed in Ward 1. If no one steps up to register against him between 9 a.m. and noon Monday, he will be officially acclaimed within half an hour.
  “I don’t expect it will happen. Someone will put their name forward,” said Knack, laughing about the possibility as the big day looms. This is his first re-election bid for c
  
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• Edmonton Police Association to elect new president in December

  17-09-2017 15:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Police Association will elect new leadership in December after a year with an interim president at the helm. 
  The association, which represents sworn Edmonton Police Service (EPS) members, has been without a permanent president since August 2016, when Maurice Brodeur was removed pending an internal investigation after publicly criticizing the leadership style of police Chief Rod Knecht.
  The association said at the time the internal investigation related to the organization
  
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• At 38 homicides Edmonton closing in on 2011's deadly record

  17-09-2017 15:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton is nine shy of its record 47 homicides in a single year, with more than three months left to hit or surpass the historic high set in 2011.
  “This is September. The clock is ticking,” retired University of Alberta criminologist Keith Spencer says of the city’s 38 homicides so far this year. “We’re going to be close.”
  Although Edmonton regularly takes the dubious distinction of murder capital, or comes close, Spencer says the number of homicides remains
  
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• Much-anticipated Club House gives residents at The Orchards loads of recreational options

  17-09-2017 08:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Deep roots are needed for a strong community to grow. It’s a return philosophy that Brookfield Residential has embraced at The Orchards at Ellerslie.
  At the core of The Orchards, founded in south Edmonton in 2011, is the Club House, an impressive 12,000-square-foot social and recreational amenity. The much-anticipated treasure, for the exclusive use of community members who are building a life in The Orchards, officially opens with a big fall harvest party Sept. 30.
  The centrepiece of the
  
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• Province apologizes to Metis community after seizing fish during cultural event

  17-09-2017 07:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Alberta government is apologizing to a Metis community in northern Alberta after fish and wildlife officers seized about 25 lake whitefish at a cultural event aiming to teach the traditional way of smoking the catch. 
  “We were all so hurt,” said community spokeswoman Roxanne Powder on Saturday. 
  She explained the three-day culture camp occurs annually and offers the community a chance to learn about traditional activities, including making dreamcatchers, trapping and hu
  
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• Matthew Robertson an experienced rookie for Edmonton Oil Kings

  17-09-2017 05:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  Matthew Robertson is as experienced as Western Hockey League rookies come.
  Had he been allowed, the Edmonton Oil Kings defenceman could have played the entire 2016-2017 season in the WHL as an underage player. He’s that talented.
  Unfortunately for the Oil Kings, despite going through a youth movement, they could only call up their first-round pick (seventh overall) in the 2016 WHL Bantam Draft for five games last season while he was still playing Midget AAA hockey for the Sherwood Park Kin
  
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• Organizers of Indigenous elders conference voice concern over treatment of delegates on city transit

  17-09-2017 05:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  Organizers for a gathering that drew thousands of Indigenous people to Edmonton this week are voicing concerns about the way a conference attendee and her son were treated by police on public transit. 
  “We feel terrible this happened to this individual and her family,” said National Gathering of Elders spokeswoman Ann Gladue-Buffalo on Saturday.
  A 10-minute video posted by Jocelyn Wabano-Iahtail on Facebook showed her interaction on Thursday with two Edmonton Police Se
  
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• Edmonton Curefest organizers aim to fight childhood cancer

  17-09-2017 04:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  Robyn Boytinck was diagnosed with cancer in June 2014 after coming down with a cold.
  Prior to that, the Fairview, Alta. teen had been an active track athlete and was “completely healthy,” said Robyn’s mother Marina Boytinck.
  “We took her to (the hospital), they did a chest X-Ray and that night we were on a plane to Edmonton. The next day she was in ICU. It happens that quickly.”
  Initially, Robyn responded so well to treatments hospital staff called her a poster chil
  
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• Crowds flock to extreme sports competition at Hawrelak Park

  17-09-2017 04:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  The FISE (International Festival of Extreme Sports) World Series is back in Edmonton this weekend at Hawrelak Park.
  Considered the European version of the X-Games, FISE lists Edmonton as its only North American stop in the series for the second year in a row.
  “It is a special opportunity for Edmonton to play host once again to some of the most extraordinary athletes in action sports anywhere in the world,” Mayor Don Iveson said Thursday at a press conference to kick off the weekend.
  
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• Terry Jones: Shapovalov with a chance to clinch for Canada

  17-09-2017 04:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  If Denis Shapovalov loves centre stage and thrives on being in the spotlight as much as he appears, he’s in the right place at the right time again Sunday (1 p.m.) at the Northlands Coliseum.
  With Canada’s somewhat surprising doubles win Saturday at the Davis Cup, the 18-year-old shooting star of the sport can be the closer to send our nation to a seventh consecutive appearance as one of the 16 nations in the World Group, a.k.a World Cup of Tennis.
  But how confident can Canada be aft
  
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• Terry Jones: Canada takes control with doubles win

  17-09-2017 04:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  They were supposed to be underdogs.
  They were the 45-year-old legend on his last legs coming off a second-rate season and a singles player scratched from Friday’s opener as he battles back from a back injury, who retired from his first match at the U.S. Open in New York and hadn’t played since.
  It was doubles day at the Davis Cup tie and Canada was considered to be in double trouble.
  India went in as the higher-ranked pair with Rohan Bopanna ranked No. 19 in the world in doubles and
  
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• FC Edmonton looking to respond after disastrous defeat

  17-09-2017 04:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  FC Edmonton are chalking up last weekend’s embarrassing home loss to North Carolina FC as a bad day at the office.
  Heading into their game Sunday against the Indy Eleven (2 p.m.) at Clarke Stadium, FC Edmonton are looking at getting back to the form, which had them on a five-game undefeated streak before falling flat last weekend.
  Edmonton are going to need to start stringing wins together for any hope of qualifying for the North American Soccer League playoffs.
  “I personally, want t
  
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• Ray recalls plenty of thrown objects from Maas, and not just footballs

  17-09-2017 03:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  TORONTO – The unfortunate head set that finished last week’s game in more pieces than it started with wasn’t the first object to fall victim to a Jason Maas blowout.
  The fiery former quarterback is making for about as intense a head coach as long-time friend and teammate Ricky Ray would have expected.
  “For sure, yeah. He’s all-in when he does something so I’ve seen it on the football field, I’ve seen it on the golf course, I’ve seen it playing racq
  
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• Leaner Lucic starting to feel at home in Edmonton

  17-09-2017 03:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  All coaches want their players to be lean and mean.
  And when it comes to Milan Lucic, mean has never been a problem.
  One of the nicest guys you’ll meet off the ice, Lucic has played the game with anger in his eyes since junior.
  Now he’s focusing on the lean part.
  Not that he was ever out of shape in his first season with the Oilers, but the bruising power forward realized he needed to quicken his step to be more effective. So he spent the summer chasing a little speed.
  “Just li
  
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• First training camp shinnys project Edmonton Oilers opening night lineup

  17-09-2017 01:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  Cult of Hockey podcast on Draisaitl’s contract and other key questionsThe physicals are done. The initial Day 1 work-out, broken into groups, is over. Now, we get to the first really interesting part of any training camp. The scrimmages.
  It is always dangerous to read too much into training camp, especially this early on.  Many variables are just not reflective of the realities of in-season action. For one thing, all players are facing competition inferior to what they will see from G
  
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• Joey Laleggia has opened eyes as a winger after being a defenceman his whole career

  17-09-2017 00:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  Joey Legs has hands too.
  Joey Laleggia has moved dramatically up the Edmonton Oilers organizational depth chart after he scored 20 goals last season in Bakersfield, shifting to left wing from defence where he’d played since a kid with buddy Ryan Nugent-Hopkins.
  Any thought that he could make the NHL sometime soon has, uh, legs.
  “Pretty impressive what he’s done over the last 40 (AHL) games,” said Oilers coach Todd McLellan. “In this first two days here, he’s b
  
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