The 2025 NHL playoffs are underway, and some of hockey’s biggest names got their start on an Ontario farm or have invested in agriculture since becoming professional athletes.
Farms.com went through each of the 16 playoff team rosters to uncover which players have a connection to agriculture in Ontario or elsewhere.
Dallas Stars centre Matt Duchene’s grandparents, Newell and Eleanor Brown, for example, have a farm near Cornwall, Ont., where his mother grew up.