A young Dauphin resident is about to get the chance of a lifetime when the Winnipeg Jets host the Arizona Coyotes on Sunday at Canada Life Centre.

Dauphin’s Mitchell Rauliuk, 13, entered the Next Gen Takeover contest and was recently selected to participate as the JetsTV reporter, where he will be mentored by and work alongside former Dauphin resident Mitchell Clinton.

Rauliuk learned of the contest through an email the team sent to his parents.

“I think my parents have a Visa card through the Winnipeg Jets and they ended up getting Jets mail. One Jets game they just gave their email to them and they send out daily news of the Jets. And it ended up coming up as the Next Gen Takeover,” he explained.

Rauliuk has an interest in broadcasting, having done the Hockey TV play-by-play for the Dauphin Kings and Parkland Rangers.

“That’s what gave me the boost to enter into the contest, because I’ve had a lot of interest in the broadcasting and all that through Dauphin and the Parkland Rangers,” he said.

While Rauliuk will be on JetsTV for the game, other winners will work in other departments, such as PA announcer, TSN 2 host and radio commentator on CJOB. Rauliuk is looking forward to opportunity even though he is not a Jets fan.

“I’m still glad I’m going. I’m pretty excited about it and I hope to go further into that industry,” he said. “What I want to get out of it is just how the main guys do it like Dennis Beyak from Winnipegosis. Just to see how they really do it. It’s not that easy, I know that, for sure,” he said.

“But I want to see just how they work it, because we think TV is just simply just usually putting a tape on and putting it on a TV channel. But there’s way more that goes on behind the stages of that. So it should be fun.”