Game On Magazine 2017 Game On Magazine - Regular Season Edition | Page 22

PROFILE J O R DY S TA L L A R D PEACEFUL EASY FEELING JORDY STALLARD is a down-to- BY LES LAZARUK Sports Director, Saskatoon Media Group and play-by-play voice of the Saskatoon Blades Photos by Lucas Chudleigh Prince Albert Raiders 2 2 | G AME ON | R EGU L A R SEASON ED ITION 2018 earth, easy-going guy. That’s as easy and accurate to say as Winnipeg’s NHL team is having the best season in the history of Winnipeg NHL teams. Count the 20-year-old Brandon product as a Jets’ fan. As well as, the team’s fifth-round round selection in the 2016 NHL Draft. As for that down-to-earth, easy-going stuff, that’s likely a product of growing up in a smaller city like Brandon. Stallard played all of his minor hockey in the Wheat City before being drafted in the fourth round (83rd overall) of the 2012 WHL Bantam Draft by the Calgary Hitmen. “I still call Calgary home to this da y,” said the younger of two boys born to Rick and Tannis Stallard with regards to the culture change of living in Calgary, with almost a milliomn people, compared to Brandon and it’s 40,000