Saskatchewan’s own: How Thomas Hasal is defined by his home

This story was originally published on May 13, and updated following the conclusion of the 'Caps MLS is Back Tournament run on July 26.

Downtown is a ghost town and Vancouver is on lockdown.

It is the second week of March and the bustling streets are quieter than a Saskatchewan prairie field.

Go home and stay home, we were told. Thomas Hasal stuffed his bag with everything he needed and threw it in his trunk.

He headed home.

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Home, for Hasal, is hard to pinpoint.

Hasal is the first member of his family to be born in Canada – in Cambridge, Ontario, as the Hasals established residence in five cities and three provinces while his parents tracked the best…