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Carter McEachern said he’d allowed a few all-star game thoughts to creep into the back of his mind in recent weeks.

Mike Krushelnyski says the media has gotten it all wrong for the past 27 years.

Thunder Bay’s hockey players have been great at giving back to their community. There have been Stanley Cup visits and hospital tours, celebrity skates and charity golf tournaments, all raising money and morale around the city.

A fourth local golfer has been added to the Staal Foundation Open field. Evan DeGrazia will make his second appearance at the Mackenzie Tour-PGA Tour Canada event -- he missed the cut last year -- teeing off Thursday morning at 9 a.m.

The one-run losses continue to mount for the last-place Thunder Bay Border Cats.

THUNDER BAY – Bobby Orr believes in the importance of giving back to your community. That’s why one of the best hockey players to ever step on the ice admires what the Staal family is doing in Thunder Bay.

For a second straight year no locals managed to Monday qualify for the Staal Foundation Open. Quebec’s Max Gilbert fired a course-record 11-under 61 to capture top spot in the 18-hole event, staged at Strathcona Golf Course.

In an era when goals came fast and furious, Grant Fuhr was pretty fortunate to have the likes of Wayne Gretzky, Mark Messier and Jari Kurri as teammates. It meant he didn’t have to worry about them firing pucks at him.

A trio of Thunder Bay Border Cats, including homegrown Carter McEachern, will represent the team at next week’s Northwoods League all-star game. Outfielder Jared James, the second leading hitter in the college summer league circuit with a .

THUNDER BAY – Organizers of the Staal Foundation Open say this week will be about more than just golf.