Rod Brind’Amor is from Campbell River I think. Not exactly Victoria, but the Island. There are a handful of other NHL’ers. They guy that owns the Esso garage on Shelbourn/Hillside played for the Jets and the Kings I think. - 1970vintage
Brind'Amour is the player/coach, I was referring to earlier. He played in Prince Rupert up until Pee-Wee, then moved to Campbell River.
Some of his former teammates from Rupert, are still friends with him.
I wonder who the last guy to win the Norris and conn smythe was? Not sure Hedman got both in the same year and am thinking only lidstrom, pronger or niedemeyer - neem55
Brind'Amour is the player/coach, I was referring to earlier. He played in Prince Rupert up until Pee-Wee, then moved to Campbell River.
Some of his former teammates from Rupert, are still friends with him. - Reubenkincade
Ah, so not from Campbell River, but played there. Good, down to earth Canadian boy.
I think there’s a handful from Nanaimo who’ve made it. Adam Cracknell is from the Island. There’s a goalie who was the Knights fourth or fifth string who got into a couple games when everyone was hurt a few years back.
My boy. So many on here were so skeptical. Too often it was he’s AJHL hence a risk instead of watching tape & seeing his skating & instincts. - Nighthawk
I think quite a few of us wanted him, much like my Luongo/Sedins first ballot comment. Draft is always funny, lots on here seem to not want d year after year. Blows my mind.
Ah, so not from Campbell River, but played there. Good, down to earth Canadian boy.
I think there’s a handful from Nanaimo who’ve made it. Adam Cracknell is from the Island. There’s a goalie who was the Knights fourth or fifth string who got into a couple games when everyone was hurt a few years back. - 1970vintage
I’m not forgetting him. I actually had him included, but in five years, he’ll be on a new deal, or will have signed as an UFA somewhere else, or traded. It could be Silovs time by then. - 1970vintage
Or that Finish kid who’s going to be attending Harvard next fall.
You were famous for skating every day. Even your summer training regiment started earlier than just about anyone’s. In terms of how [the Sedins] would work, and how you would work, what was the environment like in an average practice in Vancouver when all three of you were at the height of your powers?
Let me tell you a story.
So when we would practice, there was a lot of competitiveness involved. When they would come down to shoot, they’d always try to shoot high blocker on me. This was more Henrik than Daniel, but I’m not 100 percent sure. And every single time they went high blocker — I kid you not — I would intentionally stop it with the shaft of my stick.
And every single time, they’d get so mad at me.
“Oh you’re so lucky!” and this and that.
And I’d reply “How is this lucky, if I do it every single time?!”
Like, if I do it every single time, it isn’t lucky. They’d come down, pull it into the middle and shoot blocker side high and I’d save it off the shaft of my stick. At some point that isn’t lucky!
Then they’d get so upset. It became the best part of my day.
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Ah, so not from Campbell River, but played there. Good, down to earth Canadian boy.
I think there’s a handful from Nanaimo who’ve made it. Adam Cracknell is from the Island. There’s a goalie who was the Knights fourth or fifth string who got into a couple games when everyone was hurt a few years back. - 1970vintage
Wasn’t Willie Mitchel from the island?
Port alberni?
Ya, it's a good interview by Dr**ce at the Ath**tic. Another nice tidbit:
There’s a formulation of a question that you’re often asked, and it focuses on your having a “complicated” relationship with the city of Vancouver. When you think about your time in Vancouver, from the first season when you were a Hart Trophy runner-up, through to winning Olympic gold as a starter, through to 2011 and everything that meant, through to your contract and the trade rumours, I might suggest that the relationship wasn’t complicated so much as you were just always the biggest story. This was where you spent the pinnacle of your hockey career, but in context, now that you’re going into the Hall, when you think about playing in Vancouver, the challenges and rewards that come with that, how do you view what it means to be a star player in this city?
It was great. I just wish I’d known how to handle it better, because I would’ve enjoyed it even more than I did.
Even though I love Vancouver and it’s an unbelievable hockey market — especially when the team is playing well, there’s no place you’d rather be — unfortunately for me, I didn’t know how to handle it at times. And it affected me.
That’s the part I’m disappointed in, because I wish I had the same level of maturity and knowledge I have now 10 or 15 years ago when these things were happening, because I would’ve been able to handle it better. And I would’ve been able to enjoy it more.
That’s something I have to deal with, but it doesn’t lessen anything about my time in Vancouver. I still had a great time and I still love going back. First thing I do when I see the schedule is “When are we going back to Vancouver?” That’s just how much it means to me.
Fitting that Lou and the Sedins are heading to the HOF. Excellent players and deserved. I'm sure the Sedins would like an *asterix at Lou's shrine however the quote being:
