# @hazzesports on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DdRho_8EaEI
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/70754896-hazzesports-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/d1032cc330.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-09-14T16:06:10.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** HAZZE MEDIA SPORTS (@HazzeSports) — https://gondola.cc/HazzeSports

## Caption

Early mornings before school, the previous night’s National Hockey League (NHL) highlights unfold on SportsCentre. Growing up in a small town in Ontario, Canada, he found the morning recap his first connection to everything that happened while he slept. 

By recess, Nick Bowins and his friends had mini sticks in their hands. The snow covering the schoolyard became part of the game as they played until it was time to return to class. Later, hockey followed him home through NHL video games, which filled the hours before his parents took him to the ice rink for practice or a game of his own. 

He absorbed every part of it. He knew the players and remembered the statistics lined with their names, carrying what he had watched that morning into conversations with his friends throughout the day. 

“Everything was hockey, hockey, hockey,” Bowins recalled. 

Read the full story on @hazzemedia 
Interview by @christinawinnegar @sportsbycwinnie

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## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Christina Winnegar | @sportsbycwinnie | https://gondola.cc/sportsbycwinnie | Graphic Designer |
| Christina Winnegar | @sportsbycwinnie | https://gondola.cc/sportsbycwinnie | Journalist |

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