Back in 1993-1994 while living in Saskatoon, My community put together a skate with the Blades day to celebrate the completion of the new ghetto outdoor rink we just built.
From that I got to meet:
Clark Wilm
Rhett Warrener
Norm Maracle (at the time was a top goaltending prospect)
Todd Simpson
Mark Wotton
Chad Allen
Wade Belak
Brent Sopel
All were super nice and awesome to talk with. I was a wanna be goaltender and Getting to meet Norm Maracle was the highlight. Rhett Warrener was the most outgoing of them all though. Clark Wilm was also pretty cool, gave me some tips on skating technique.
Back in 06, met the L.A Kings while working in a nightclub in Banff.
Had a great chat with Sean Burke, Rob Blake, Craig Conroy, Kopitar, TKO. All funny guys and very polite.
Cammy meanwhile was already kind of separating himself from the group. Sat at the bar solo and chatted up myself and the bartender for a good while. Was really pumped to see him get traded to Calgary not too long after (the season after maybe?). Also, Ratis Ivanitz or whatever is a freak of nature. Biggest hockey player I ever seen.
Met the 08 Flames also working a Nightclub in Banff. Meeting Kipper, Iggy, Bertuzzi, Lankow, Lombardi. Big Bert being the most anti-social of the bunch. But was still very professional.
Biggest D-bags hockey players I've met, Fernando Pisani comes to mind off the bat. Came into the nightclub and was a total arrogant jerk. Even got the biggest Oilers fan I know to hate him. Was talking to all the staff very condescendingly, constantly whining that the bartenders werent giving him priority number one status, tipped like an Aussie right off of the boat. Wasn't pretty.
There's one more guy who was a nightmare but I'M having a hard time recollecting his name. I'M sure I'll edit this post later.
Met Felix Potvin too, he was pretty cool. this was a couple years after his NHL days were over though. So I am guessing that he was pretty stoked to have anyone at that time remember him.
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