My car, which had been plugged in all night, was still an ice cube. The door nearly shattered upon opening, the radio was too cold to turn on, and I had to wear gloves to touch the steering wheel. It was minus-50 with the wind chill and on the drive, I decided that upon graduation, I was moving away from the province I grew up in.
If you like snow and cold weather, Manitoba in the winter is your jam. Winnipeg specifically has had a white Christmas every year but one in the last century, and of Canada's 100 largest cities, Winnipeg is the 10th coldest with an average low of minus-20.2.
No thank you!
Since then Vancouver has become home, but because of the return of the Jets to Winnipeg, I get once, sometimes twice yearly reminders that I wasn't built for Manitoba winters. I fail that part of the man test.
Upon packing for this two-game road trip, which has us in Calgary at the moment before flying to Winnipeg Sunday, the first and most thing I put in my bag was a tuque and mitts.
Every Canucks player was surely smart enough to do the same, right?
We put that theory to the test in the second episode of Boarding Air Canucks.
Watch: Youtube Video
A tie? Are you kidding me? How unsatisfying was that. Ugh. And in an M. Night Shyamalan-like twist, the guys may not need tuques at all!
Winnipeggers usually argue it isn't always thaaaat cold out and they seem to be correct this time around. Sunday's forecast calls for minus-2 with a 30 per cent chance of flurries, while Monday will be minus-11 and sunny.
Truthfully, as long as we take the W out of Winnipeg, one of the hottest teams in the league, there's 100 per cent chance this will have been a good trip.
