BRANDON, MB

The Canadian Olympic Men’s hockey team was announced Thursday and it turns out most of the guys are just random dudes from your church floor hockey league.

“With the NHL boycotting the Olympics this year, Team Canada was desperate to field a men’s hockey team,” said head coach Willie Desjardin, “so we just pinned a sign-up sheet in the Mennonite church lobby there in Brandon and took who we could get.”

The first to sign up (and therefore team captain) was Timothy Peters, 52, who was super excited to represent Canada in Pyeongchang.

“As soon as I saw the sign-up sheet next to the decaf I knew I had to join!” said Peters. “I’ve been playing floor hockey here at West Brandon Mennonite since the 1980s and, let me tell you, I can still tromp around a church gym like nobody’s bus

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