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Karin Melberg Schwier
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A Rink In Your Basement The Ultimate Hockey Fan Feature Your daughter cries out, “She shoots! She scores!” and the fans cheer. Your son voices a heated protest over a crosschecking penalty. Skates scraping and slashing the ice. The thwack of a slapshot on the boards. Not usually what you hear wafting up your basement stairs. But it’s always Hockey
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Saskatoon HOME
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Night in Canada in this unique home, with a 650 sq. ft. hockey rink, complete with change room, latching rink door and a luxury VIP executive viewing box. In the basement. The Analytics Rick Groeneveld, director of construction with Arbutus
Fall 2016
Properties, said the idea for the basement rink grew out of studying lottery home behaviour when they built this home for the Kinsmen Home Lottery. What might set this lottery home apart? Reinforce Arbutus’ belief in building an area centred around community? What could be more
Saskatchewan than hockey? And what’s never been done before? An indoor hockey rink idea emerged from a ‘let’s think outside the (penalty) box’ brainstorming session. The home is 3,927 sq. ft. of west coast style, but it’s the rink that tips its hat to the beloved sport of hometown