Sports with Bryan Wyatt

With the draft and the opening wave of the free agency frenzy over, the summer campfire chat about next hockey season can really swing into high gear.

It's the second round of the Stanley Cup play-offs, and after a couple of upsets in the opening series we are quite well represented with Thunder Bay players.

A movie now playing in the theatre has sparked a memory of mine of one of the highlights of the winter sports scene in the city. I'm talking about the ski-jumping competitions, both World Cup and Continental levels at Big Thunder.

The effects of our low loonie will be felt by our two major summer sports teams. The Border Cats play all of their Northwoods League road games in the U.S, meaning they will face additional costs on each of those trips.

At the half-way point of the OUA season it's not looking that good for the Lakehead University Thunderwolves hockey team. There is a real possibility the team could miss the post-season for the first time.

Now that we're down to the final four in major league baseball here are a few interesting items. Blue Jays announcer and former manager Buck Martinez started his career as a catcher with Kansas City in 1969.

As the Major League Baseball post-season gets underway, there is much to be excited about. Let's start with the Blue Jays. They pulled the trigger at the trade deadline, landing potential Cy Young-winner David Price from Detroit.

It is summer, but only a couple of months from now will the start of another Thunderwolves hockey season.

With the end of another long hockey season nearing, there is no doubt there will be plenty of off-season hockey talk around campfires this summer. The No.

National Hockey League general managers seem to have agreed on changes to regular season overtime, some sort of three-on-three format. Now, the players have to agree to the changes to make things happen.