[Royle9]

As a fan you all feel how hard this hits us, how it puts life into perspective. You start questioning all the little things that seemed to bother you so much that really aren’t worth worrying about so long as you have your health and your family.

Then you start to wonder what it feels like for his close friends like Monahan, a guy who signed in Columbus solely because he wanted to play alongside his best friend and raise their kids together, buying a house on the same block as Johnny.

Sadly you start to really question how his family is doing, the worst pit in the stomach feeling comes over you. I can’t even type it all out, the impact on every individual at a time when they should be elated celebrating a wedding today.

Lastly as a father or mother you feel yourself loosing it as if it were your own kids, you can’t fathom the idea, you start thinking about his children having to grow up without their father, at an age where they heartbreakingly never had the time to get to k ow just how awesome he was and how many lives he impacted.

All because of a senseless, disgusting and selfish act that is easily avoidable.
I didn’t know Johnny personally, but was fortunate to meet him a handful of times outside of the rink and yet somehow I feel like I’ve lost something inside me today.

The Flames will do right by Johnny, not just because of this tragedy, but because of the generational era he gave this city and this fanbase and the legacy he left with us fans here in Calgary.

RIP Johnny Hockey.