A/N: I've been trying to keep up with the story since I got home, I really have. But I'm writing a story, one of the sub-plots of which is about young men trying to make it as professional hockey players and this morning one such young man died. For what it's worth, I've never met Luc Bourdon. But as a guy who grew up in Canada watching the World Junior Championships every Christmas, you feel as though you get to know the members of Team Canada and you get to really know the kids who play for the team in back-to-back years.
Luc Bourdon was a gold medal winner with Team Canada at the World Junior Championships in 2006 at Vancouver and 2007 at Leksand-Mora, Sweden. He was the 10th Overall draft pick of the Vancouver Canucks in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft and he died this morning in a motorcycle accident near his home in Shippagan, New Brunswick. I think we can all agree that at 21 years of age and with his dreams of playing pro hockey well within his reach, it was far too early for his family or the world to lose Luc.
Hockey fans everywhere and I hope fans of this story too will stand with the Bourdon family in this time of their deepest grief.
I know that I have never met any of you in person and that I'm on very treacherous ground by saying this but please do what you can for the Bourdon family now. Even if it's saying a little prayer for them tonight, I'm sure every little bit helps.
For those of you wishing to do more, if there is any of you, and I understand if there isn't; a 28 donation (28 was Luc's number for Vancouver) can be made to the Canuck Place Children's Hospice in his name. For information, see below:
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To all my readers, I'm sorry for this little spiel but I just felt like I should do something. I hope you'll all understand
Thanks,