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She’s happy to be back in her own bed now, but Wren Acorn said she wouldn’t have traded the experience for anything.

The Yellowknife Minor Hockey Association has had a development program in place for several years now and it’s brought about some rather impressive results.

The GNWT wants Yellowknife to host the 2026 Arctic Winter Games.

It was a weekend of fast-paced practice sessions for 2023 Arctic Winter Games (AWG) table tennis participants to ensure they were on their toes and prepared for competition.

As he’ll tell you himself, Vic Mercredi is the answer to a trivia question: he’s the first hockey player born and raised in Yellowknife to play in the National Hockey League.

When Dylan Guenther scored his second goal of the game at 6:22 of overtime to give Canada a 3-2 victory over Czechia to claim the International Ice Hockey Federation’s (IIHF) World Junior Championship, the roof nearly blew off the Scotiabank Centre in Halifax, N.S., on the evening of Jan. 5 — and Joseph Jr. Kaludjak and his family from Rankin Inlet were right in the middle of it.

Almost all of the sporting focus right now is on the Arctic Winter Games at the end of the month, but there is another big event shortly following that.

When you think of table tennis coaches in the NWT, you would almost instantly think of Thorsten Gohl.

With everyone seemingly eating everything in sight on Dec. 25, it’s nice to know there’s one event happening the following day where you can work off all of that turkey or whatever meat product you ate on Christmas.

Yellowknife’s Wren Acorn is back home for a well-deserved holiday break but before returning to the homestead, she was busy at a rather important competition.