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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
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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