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Originally Posted by Delthefunky
I was lucky enough to know Hakan Loob a little bit. My aunt used to work a lot at the Scandinavian centre and somehow got to be friends with A few Swedish Flames throughout the 80's and 90's. I got to meet Hakan Loob, Thomas Forslund and Roger Johansson. Anyways, Loob had 2 kids, the youngest was my age and we were pretty good friends until they moved back to Sweden. I still remember I got a little remote control boat from them for my birthday when I was 6. When Hakan realized I really loved hockey and the flames, he got me a bunch of old sticks and his old red helmet. I remember using Rick Wamsleys stick for street hockey, and I used to wear the helmet playing shinney, more because it was so funny looking. Then before they moved back they gave a bunch of their old furniture away and my parents somehow got their bed, and it was handed down to me growing up, and I used the frame all the way up until about 5 years ago... It was a pretty sweet bed. Anyways cool story bro, I know... But he's always been my favourite flame!.
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Oh man the Scan center, great times.
I used to go to pretty much all the games in 85-86 with my friend, and we'd go down when they went out for warmup, the first time Loob came over to sign this big Flames card we made, I told him I was from Iceland and that he was my favorite player, from that point on everytime he saw me he always remembered my name, would call out THOR! and say hows my Icelandic friend today... He was truly one of the most kind and giving people the flames ever had, when he left the flames to return to Sweden I was so sad.
The first Flames jersey I ever bought of course was his number, wish I didn't lose it moving over the years.