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Let’s look into our crystal ball for a couple of predictions for the year 2023. Who will be Canada’s
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top sports personality in 2023 and which Canadian team will dominate the sporting news?
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Jake Lapierre - Conditioning Coach - In looking back at 2022, teams and athletes that caught my attention
throughout the year include Canada’s women’s hockey team led by Marie Philip Poulin, winning gold in Beijing
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and IIHF Women World Championship in Frederikshavn, Denmark. And of course, Canada’s men’s soccer team
led by Alphonso Davis, finishing runner up in the CONCACAF championship and qualifying for the World Cup
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tournament in Qatar.
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In 2023, notable major sporting events I’m looking forward to include; the IIHF men’s hockey championship in May
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co-hosted by Latvia & Finland; the Baseball World Classic hosted in Japan; and women’s World Cup soccer in July/
August, hosted by Australia and New Zealand.
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Looking into my crystal ball, figures materializing through the haze as Canada’s top sports personality and Canadian
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team dominating the sporting news is Canada’s women soccer team and team captain Christine Sinclair.
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Jim Riddell - Seaway Karate Club - Smiths Falls native Brooke Henderson had one major victory and several top
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10 finishes in 2022, and at twenty-five years of age is at the top of her game. Henderson finished 2022 as the fourth
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highest LPGA money winner, if her solid play continues, she will be in a good position to become Canada’s top
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sports personality for 2023.
As for which Canadian team will dominate the news, it will most likely be the Ottawa Senators, not for what the
team will accomplish on the ice but for everything that is presently happening around them. The Senators will be sold
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in 2023 and NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman has indicated that there are five or six serious bidders in contention
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to buy the team. Once the sale is finalized, the new owners will need to complete a deal with the NCC for a new
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downtown arena at LeBreton Flats. Until both of those deals are done, there will be no shortage of Ottawa Senator
news and speculation.
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Peter Collins - Sports Enthusiast - Oh, the shame, oh the humiliation, a life long Habs fan picking the Toronto
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Maple Leafs to win this year’s Stanley Cup. Once I get over those awful feelings the logic for picking the Leafs is
straightforward. They have an overabundance of young talent, mixed in with wily veterans, and the goaltending is
finally in place. It won’t be easy, but it seems like they won’t be playing the blessed Blue, Blanc, Rouge in the first
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round, so they have a chance at this year’s Cup. So, let’s say the Leaf’s win the Cup for the first time since 1967.
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They’ll be Toronto’s team of the year, team of the decade and team of the century! Their biggest competition might
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be 2023 version of the Blue Jays, but I’ll go with the Buds anyway.
There’s a lot of options for Canada’s top sports personality. I’ll pick Brooke Henderson to lead the way in 2023.
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She’s coming off a good year, with two more wins, including her second major in 2022, increasing her career total to
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twelve LPGA wins. She’s already arguably the most successful Canadian golfer in history. At the age of twenty-five
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she should be reaching her peak as a professional golfer, and she could dominate an extremely competitive tour for
the next few years. I’ll predict she wins five events, including two majors, which will guarantee her Canadian and
LPGA player of the year! She may be the Canadian sports personality for the next five years!
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