Carson Carels had a pretty busy start to June for several reasons.<\/p>\n
He spent a week in Buffalo at the NHL Scouting Combine, and then got to watch Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n
But when he went home, it was time for some real work, and it had little to do with skates, sticks and pucks.<\/p>\n
Being No. 3 on NHL Central Scouting’s final ranking of North American skaters doesn’t exempt him from chores on the family farm.<\/p>\n
“We’re actually mid-calving season right now, so there’s about 10-15 calves every day on the ground,” Carels said. “It’s been a lot of work, but it’s been a lot of fun just being back and helping Dad and smiling about it.”<\/p>\n
The Carels family farm in Cypress River, Manitoba, is a beef ranch with about 500 head of cattle, so there’s a lot of work to be done, especially at this time of year.<\/p>\n
“I’ve helped a few calvings this year, but I think they’ve all been really smooth,” Carels said. “All the feeding of the cows and everything’s pretty hard work as well, and that’s kind of what we’ve been doing.<\/p>\n
“Then, on the side as well right now, I have about 50 goats that have about 70 babies on the ground, so it’s been a lot of fun. Those little things jumping around are pretty cute too. So, makes it enjoyable.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carson Carels had a pretty busy start to June for several reasons. He spent a week in Buffalo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-735385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}