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• Not-so-super Super Bowl prediction: New England Patriots 37, Atlanta Falcons 20.

• Not-so-super explanation: The Falcons’ defence is unusually suspect for a Super Bowl finalist, and the opposing quarterback happens to be somebody named Tom Brady.

• Crowds at Regina Pats home games continue to be a story. Last season, the Pats had four sellouts — three during the regular season and one in the WHL playoffs. On Saturday, when the Edmonton Oil Kings pay a visit to the Brandt Centre, the 2016-17 Pats will play before their 10th capacity crowd.

• Note to self: Interview Pats defenceman Connor Hobbs more frequently. Everything he says is gold. No clichés. Just honesty, insight and a sense of humour. Plus, he could very well end up boasting the highest goal total of any Regina blue-liner since 1993-94, when David Wilkie sniped 27 times in 29 games after being acquired from the Kamloops Blazers. Overall, Wilkie had 38 goals that season.

• On Wednesday against the Moose Jaw Warriors, the Pats’ Sam Steel was stationed in front of the opposition’s net. He was cross-checked in the back, in plain view of everyone. A penalty did not ensue. Cross-checks of this nature are all too frequently ignored by the referees.

• All checking-from-behind penalties, at every level of hockey, should be majors. How a careless and potentially injurious check from behind can result in the same penalty time served as inadvertently shooting the puck over the Plexiglas — a two-minute infraction — is beyond me.