He’s not hosting a preseason party in his hometown of Sault Ste Marie, known by everyone as The Soo, or holding some sort of team-building exercise in the wilds of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
The Carolina Hurricanes and the Buffalo Sabres will be playing two preseason exhibition games October 4th and 5th in Marquette, Michigan and Sault Ste Marie, Ontario.
Hockeyville USA, Marquette, Michigan
The first game is part of the prize that Marquette and its Lakeview Arena won by being named a Kraft Hockeyville USA community. The nationwide annual contest is a partnership between the NHL, NHL Players Association and Kraft Foods that works to promote hockey at the local level in small towns across the U.