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At the sound of the final buzzer, the game ends and the business begins. So it’s business as usual for Cochrane’s Mason Raymond.

At the sound of the final buzzer, the game ends and the business begins. So it’s business as usual for Cochrane’s Mason Raymond.

After two seasons of camping under the Calgary Flames prospect tent, Cochrane’s Coda Gordon is without a National Hockey League team.

After two seasons of camping under the Calgary Flames prospect tent, Cochrane’s Coda Gordon is without a National Hockey League team.

It’s a grey, overcast morning in Okotoks. The kind of Saturday you figure would have been better spent in bed. A ray of light catches your eye. It’s source? The effervescent smile of Cochrane High School Cobras centre Brock Wiebe.

Cochrane Cobras defensive-backs coach Jeff Avery looks over at centre Brock Wiebe and understands the 17-year-old football player’s precarious situation.

It’s a grey, overcast morning in Okotoks. The kind of Saturday you figure would have been better spent in bed. A ray of light catches your eye. It’s source? The effervescent smile of Cochrane High School Cobras centre Brock Wiebe.

Cochrane Cobras defensive-backs coach Jeff Avery looks over at centre Brock Wiebe and understands the 17-year-old football player’s precarious situation.

Build it, and they will come. Unlike W.P. Kinsella’s Field of Dreams carved into an Iowa corn field, Cochrane’s artificial all-weather playing surface is taking root beside a high school.

If someone was asked to pick a month where they would expect high school football players to be out on the field, June probably wouldn’t be one of the first answers.