Mackenzie Delta hockey players in week-long intensive

A five-day intensive hockey camp for youth is underway in Inuvik. 135 youth from all across the Mackenzie Delta are in town for it. One parent is already seeing the advantages of an early season training camp. Filling in too, there's no school for five days, so this is a five-day program that they're really going to take a lot out of it, I think. I see the improvement. You always do first day. Former NHL players and other pros are teaching drills. It's all being put on by the First Assist Hockey Program, an Indigenous-led charity that uses sports to motivate kids to learn. It was founded by John Chabot, a former NHL player from the Kitigan-Zibi First Nations. It gives the opportunity not just for them, but for us. For us to be educated in the North and what it's like and what these kids go through day to day. Because unless you've ever been here, unless you've experienced, it's not something you're going to know anything about. So we love coming here, and we're going to be coming back as long as it happens. If you're in town this weekend, come on, check out the Roy Suglu Ipana Memorial Arena. There'll be an Arctic sports demonstration happening Saturday afternoon. Players are returning home on Monday. Des Lorraine, CBC News, Inuvik.