NEWS PHOTO JAMES TUBB Medicine Hat Tigers forward Mat Ward celebrates his second goal in Game 4, a 5-3 win May 1 at Lethbridge over the Hurricanes to sweep the Eastern Conference Championship series.

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Where oh where did the time go.

A question Mat Ward asked after returning home to Kamloops this week following the end of his WHL career, a loss in the final of the Memorial Cup finals.

The 21-year-old Swift Current Bronco and Medicine Hat Tiger echoed a similar sentiment he heard from veterans when he broke into the league, enjoy the time because it flies by.

“I wish I would have listened to them a little more with that, because it’s true,” Ward said. “It flies by, the best years of your life, they fly by.”

Ward finishes his WHL career with 26

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