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SHIFT CHANGE: ROGERS KNOWS TIMING IS EVERYTHING
The moments, the memories, unsurprisingly, are every bit as compelling as any official chronology of the longevity, the games, the goals, the blinks, that aura of old-guy menace and those not-so-stray elbows.
SHIFT CHANGE: JOHNSON USES EDUCATION TO OPEN OIL INDUSTRY DOORS
For a guy who’d been reared in the city, cut his teeth guarding the blue line for the AJHL Canucks and spent a year out at Foothills Arena as a student-athlete, the idea of returning home and pulling on that Flaming C jersey was far from a be-all, end-all. (more…)
SHIFT CHANGE: NATTRESS FINDS SECRET TO SUCCESS IN NEW HABITS, OLD PLACES
As the countdown to a degree of unique immortality began that never-to-be-forgotten night inside the Montreal Forum, May 25th, 1989, Ric Nattress couldn’t quite wrap his head around what to do, how to respond. (more…)
SHIFT CHANGE: VILGRAIN’S PATH FROM PLAYING HOCKEY TO BUILDING PLAYGROUNDS
Over the course of two decades living and working inside the hockey cocoon, Claude Vilgrain had seen, as so many in that highly-specialized line of work do, his share of differing lands. (more…)
SHIFT CHANGE: SLOAN SETTLES INTO SAFETY AFTER HOCKEY
Having been born in Willow Park, spent a few years on an acreage in DeWinton and mostly brought up in the Riverbend area, Tyler Sloan is Calgary to the core. (more…)
SHIFT CHANGE: BEREZAN, SHERVEN FIND SUCCESS AS BUSINESS TEAMMATES
Slumped inside the invading dressing room at floor level of the Olympic Saddledome on that Feb. 10th evening, 1993, one knee in tatters and the San Jose Sharks in the midst of a 13-1 ass-whuppin’ from his old franchise, Perry Berezan knew.