WINNIPEG, Manitoba — Maybe Barry Trotz didn’t want to admit it, but there had to be a little extra perspective on his soon-to-be Hall of Fame career when he returned here, to his first hometown in what has been a string of many.
It was here in the noble northern plains of Canada where Trotz grew up, about three hours north in Dauphin, Manitoba. That was where his father was a mechanic for the Central Manitoba Railway, and where, in summers, young Barry would travel all the way to Saskatchewan nailing rivets into the railways.
“My first season in junior [hockey], I weighed 145,” Trotz said here on Wednesday.