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Jordan Eberle was always a real nice guy. Pretty quiet in school but always friendly. Ran into him a few times since graduation and he hasn't changed much.

Taylor Hall is a ######bag. He's come into my restaurant a few times with Eberle and everytime I've gone over to chat with Ebs, Hall either stares at me and says nothing, or pretends to be looking at his phone and says nothing. My girlfriend is from Edmonton and has friends that have told me stories about him trying to pick them up in bars and just being a complete dickhead.

Kipprusoff was always really nice. Met him twice, once he came into my old restaurant with his family so I went over to offer to pay for their drinks. He politely declined and ended up purposely over paying his bill, saying it was to buy myself and one of my chefs a drink because he loved his meal.
Few months later I ran into him at Schanks. He spent the night walking around saying hi to people, and went out for a smoke every 5 minutes.

Jim Playfair was always very friendly as well. Gave me a ride home from junior high once when it was -38.

This one always surprises people, but John Tortorrella was an extremely friendly guy as well. Ran into him after the Rangers played a game here, rangers lost but I said to him 'Good game' and he just laughed and said 'Well, not quite good enough" I've heard other stories of him always heading to the broadcast booth after games to tell the guys they did a great job.

Back when I was still playing minor hockey Conroy and Warrener came to the fish creek arena. Not for some pre set up publicity thing, just to hang out, watch hockey and chat with young players. Conroy signed my stick and Warrener gave me some tips as a fellow defenceman. Both are great, great, stand up guys. They made a few lifetime fans that day.