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Princes Island Park in Calgary

Princes Island Park is a small island which is separated from downtown Calgary by a small strip of water from the Bow river. There’s lots of wild life, greenery and picnic areas to enjoy.

Princes Island Park and Bow river

Canadian Goslings

A Squirrel

Canadian Geese

Calgary Phantoms

I’m back playing inline hockey again! I’ve joined the Calgary Phantoms :)

Me (Ryan Hellyer) in action for the Calgary Phantoms

Kent Chow and Steven Pelser sitting on the bench during a Calgary Phantoms inline hockey game

Me (Ryan Hellyer) wearing kitted out in my Calgary Phantoms gear

Calgary Phantoms team

Intramural Finals

Here’s some videos from the finals of the University of Calgary Intramural B-grade and A-grade non-contact hockey leagues.

First up are the Stubble Jumpers (the winners). I often played at lunch time with a bunch of these guys and they were pretty pumped to win the B-grade.

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The next video is of the A-grade. The white team is the “individuals team” which my friend Janay Magowan played for who also won :) Janay is the short fast one with the yellow socks.

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Jenns Video

Thanks to Jenn Yamagishi for making this video for me :) It’s of me and two of my inline hockey team mates Christian van Eaden and Steve Pelzer playing ice hockey at Arcadia Arena and in SE Calgary.

The week before, my team mate Janay Magowan and I caught the train down south and walked to the arena. Erm, it turned out to be somewhat further away than we thought :P So luckilly Steve offered me a lift the week after :)

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Team Group Velocity

Somehow I managed to end up on the University of Calgary physics hockey team! They were short on players so I signed up and dragged along Janay with me. We had the stunningly geeky name of “Team Group Velocity”. The team was a hotch potch of various levels. We competed in the University of Calgary Intramural B-grade hockey league.

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Outdoor hockey in Tuscany

I played in a social outdoor ice hockey tournament in Tuscany, Calgary with some guys I met at the Olympic Oval a while back. Event was great, ice wasn’t the best as a chinook (easterly wind) was blowing through, but it was a heap of fun and I hope to compete in an event like this again some time.

Me (Ryan Hellyer) stopping in front of my own goalie in the Tuscany outdoor ice hockey tournament

Olympic Oval

The Olympic Oval at the University of Calgary is the best ice rink I’ve ever seen! Two full international sized hockey rinks within the confines of a full long track speed skating rink!

I played hockey there at lunch times a lot and I had power skating and hockey lessons there as well. Plus I played in the University of Calgary B-grade Intramural hockey league for Team Group Velocity (I was a ring-in for the Physics department team).

The Olympic Oval

 

The Olympic Oval

My house in Calgary

Here are some photos of my house in Calgary. The window to my room is on the left hand side of the house.

My house at 3036 Morley Trail, Calgary

 

My house in Calgary at Christmas

 

The inside of our house

Skating in the Rockies

For Christmas, my friend Mike Boyle took me ice skating in the Rocky Mountains :) The weather was great, well as great as minus 20 degrees can be, and there was HEAPS of ice. Unfortunately there was a tad too much snow to make skating viable.

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Mike Boyle and I (Ryan Hellyer) on Lake Johnson

Me (Ryan Hellyer) on Back Swamp

Gregor trying to shovel Lake Johnson