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Local product Reid Stefanson is heading into his second season with the UMass Lowell River Hawks.
Reid Stefanson and Tristan Mullin come from a generation of local players who fell in love with hockey because of the Manitoba Moose.
Stefanson considered Jimmy Roy his favourite player, while Mullin was a big Mike Keane fan growing up.
This week, the city kid and country kid are rubbing shoulders with their hockey heroes at Winnipeg Jets development camp at Bell MTS Iceplex.
Stefanson, 22, from Winnipeg, recently completed his first season with the University of Massachusetts (Lowell) River Hawks, while Mullin, also 22, from the southwestern Manitoba farming community of Cartwright, has two seasons with the Cornell University Big Red under his belt.