I am standing beside Haley Wickenheiser, a legend of Canadian women's hockey. She has won five Olympic medals, four of them gold, and a silver or gold medal in thirteen world hockey championships. This is the CWHL All-Star game and she is representing the Calgary Inferno.
But how did I wind up there? How did I wind up in a media scrum in a backroom of the Air Canada Centre nervously asking a question about her plans after retiring from hockey?
It's now four months later.
I am in Ricoh Coliseum. Sheldon Keefe is standing two feet in front of me, eyes looking right in to mine, searching to see if I want to ask him a question.