My heart sinks for Bob Gainey in this terrible moment after his daughter was swept away at sea. Few, if any people, I've met have the larger-than-life aura of Gainey, who I knew a little during the big Stanley Cup winning years. Around 1979 I invited him to speak to students at Westmount High and he showed up and answered students' questions for about an hour.
He was quiet, polite and intense, as he is now. Everybody was blown away by his generous visit. A few years later I attended a game, a rare event for me. It was an important playoff match against Buffalo and Gainey got a penalty. While skating to the box he spotted me in the stands and nodded to me. It convinced me that he's on some higher level of consciousness or something. I find it incredibly sad to think that he's lost his wife and now, apparently, his daughter.
Higher plane of consciousness for sure. Never met him, but never heard a bad word about the guy. Solid as a rock, but this is a pretty tough time.
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Yo, I use to work in a store on Peel street nears de Maisonneuve and Bod Gainey came in once. He was the most cool, relax customer. He had time to kill and looked at everything and I sold him a jacket. I remember looking at his credit card to make sure it was him. My heart is with him and is family now.
ReplyDeleteI met him at a bar in Toronto, around 1998-99, a pool hall I think called Cross Corner or something like that. Nice guy. He gave me an autograph. We chatted a bit, but I left him alone even though he looked like he could indulge a lifelong Hab fan for a few hours still.
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