This is me with the late, great Guy Lafleur. He was my first hockey hero. When I was maybe 6-7 years old, my uncle gave me a Guy poster which I proudly displayed in my bedroom. While he was not the same Guy of the 70s, he was still a great player. When he retired with the Canadiens, Larry Robinson and Mats Naslund became my favorite players.

I got to meet my first hero when I played in a charity hockey game for the Boys and Girls Club on Friday January 23^rd, 2015. It started out a nice morning but turned into a stormy day. I was teaching in Charlottetown in the morning and then after my morning class started out back to Summerside for the charity game at Slemon Park Plex. The snow had picked up and it was drifting terrible on Route 2. I made it to Hunter River, but the Department of Transportation had closed that part of the highway after the Hunter River Irving. I had to cut across countryside roads to get to Crapaud and then made it to Middleton past the old Irving location but ran into more trouble with drifting.

I finally made it back to Summerside and to the rink. I was the third player there; two teachers from Cape Breton drove in a storm to make the game. About 20 minutes later Guy Lafleur walked in the dressing room. What a friendly guy. We had a great chat. He was the coach for the game. I got to start on a line with another Habs great, Steve Shutt.