It is 10:20 a.m. and every Toronto Marlie has left the ice after the conclusion of practice nearly 30 minutes earlier, except for one. “You’re kicking me off?” Minten shouts, feigning surprise, to affable Leafs staffer Mike Kelly. And so with the all-round, cerebral centre projecting to make his AHL debut on Nov. 9, could it be a matter of …
MONTREAL – Fraser Minten isn’t your typical hockey player. “He’s a new age hockey player,” said his Kamloops Blazers head coach and general manager Shaun Clouston. “We think there’s a lot of upside there.” Minten said he had “lots of good conversations” with the Leafs. “Highly intelligent, highly competitive, he knows how to win,” Wes Clark, the Leafs director of …
SIBLEY, Iowa — Thick black smoke billowed into the air Sunday after a train derailed in northwest Iowa, prompting authorities to evacuate part of a small, nearby town. The fiery derailment happened around 2 p.m. Sunday on the southwest edge of Sibley, which is a town of about 3,000 people roughly 200 miles northwest of Des Moines. Nate Minten of …
