Leave it to Winnipeg to be drowned in late October sun on the one day it would have been better to stay grey.
There is something so perfectly Winnipeg about that, about weather that refuses to co-operate with human ambitions. So yes, sunlight bore down on the ice at Investors Group Field. Yes, it put the Heritage Classic into an hour-long sunshine delay.
That was more than all right, in that balmy 10 C weather. The wait could have lasted another hour and still been OK.
"It’s so nice here in the sun," one woman sighed to no one in particular, 30 minutes after the game should have begun.