SPORTS CENTRE
Top Players Endorse
New Canada Games
Sport for Life
Centre
JEFF WOOD WITH
HIS GROUP
It will be called the Canada Games Sport for Life Centre and for
longtime hockey high-performance training specialist Jeff Wood and
Sport Manitoba’s Senior Manager of Athlete Development, Adam
Decker, it is one of the most exciting times in Manitoba sports
history. Located adjacent to Sport Manitoba at 145 Pacific Avenue,
the new training centre will be a 200,000 square foot facility that will
not only be home to many of the province’s National-level and
professional athletes, it will also be home to an intense hockey
training program for Manitoba’s most elite players. And even though
it hasn’t opened yet, the players
are already excited about it
ADAM BROOKS
Photos by Jeff Miller,
Keith Hershmiller and courtesy
Brendan Shinnimin,
Adam Hughesman and the Canada
Games Sport for Life Centre
82 GAME ON
2017 CHAMPIONS EDITION
A
dam Hughesman can’t wait for the opening of the Canada Games Sport
for Life Centre. The 26-year-old member of Orli Znojmo in the Austrian
Elite League plays pro hockey, which means the physical requirements of
his game are always a work in progress.
Brendan Shinnimin, meanwhile, spent the 2016-17 season with Astana Barys in the
Kontinental Hockey League. He doesn’t have a contract (yet) for next season, so
staying on top of his game will be of the utmost importance this coming summer.
That’s why both players are so excited about the opening of the Canada Games
Sport for Life Centre.
“Me and Shinny were joking around. I think we’re going to live here,” said Hughes-
man with a laugh. “This hockey program that Jeff and Adam are putting together
looks special. Nolan Patrick, the potential first overall pick in the NHL Draft is com-
ing to work out here. Adam Brooks, who is training to make the Toronto Maple Leafs
next year, will be working out here. That says something about what’s going on here.
I think it’s going to grow and I think every player who sees this should try to get in
because I don’t think there are going to be any spots left.”
Shinnimin agreed. When you know that a fellow-professional like Hughesman and