TEAM RE/MAX CANADA Hockey, Adventures and Memories
By Ken Eddy
It is said that every Canadian boy grows up dreaming of playing in the NHL. Of being the hero scoring that overtime goal in the seventh game of the Stanley Cup finals. To be Sidney Crosby scoring the Golden Goal in the Vancouver Olympics with the whole world watching and the weight of an entire nation on his shoulders.
Now when you consider that there are approx only 800 players in the NHL at any given time combined with thousands of young men vying to get drafted every year, it is a tough dream to have come true. Sadly the vast majority of boys no matter how hard they may have tried, grow up to be men with their dreams of hockey glory unfilled…well maybe.
Personally speaking I have to confess that yes I was a typical Canadian boy with stardom in my eyes. Sadly there was only one reason stopping me from playing in the show, that being a lack of talent. However as a small conciliation I had always wanted to play hockey overseas, to tour and play in a foreign country, perhaps the old Eastern Block would be a cool place to visit. So in 1999 I started recruiting players, mostly from our annual RE/MAX hockey tournament that moves around Western Canada, plus a few friends of mine. Within a couple of months Team RE/MAX Canada was born and the adventures began in the Czech Republic in January 2000.