WINNING PERSPECTIVE

After Canada’s disappointing performance at the World Junior Championship, Berkly Catton found refuge skating on an outdoor rink in his hometown. The ‘reset’ helped the Kraken’s top prospect return to the WHL on a scoring rampage as he rounds out his game for the NHL

BY KEN CAMPBELL

THE WORLD JUNIOR Championship was “a real kick in the nuts” for Chris Catton’s son. We know this, well, because we watched it and that’s exactly how he described it. So after the debacle came to an end, Chris Catton’s kid went home to Saskatoon for a few days and immediately headed to the place where he has always found refuge. After the tournament, one of the first places Berkly Catton went was the Dr. John G. Egnatoff School Rink on Kenderdine Road, where he could be alone with his stick and puck and watch his breath fade into the prairie sky. “It was therapeutic,” Berkly Catton said. “Instead of 20,000 people screaming, it was not a sound, except for the puck hitting the boards. It felt like it reset…

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