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Whilst at Sochi2014.ru/Russia Dom Monday, my girlfriend and I met former Soviet Goaltender Vladislav Tretiak. Not a current Olympian, but he was at one point. He is currently the GM of the Russian men's Olympic hockey team.
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The basement at Lucy Mae Brown wouldn't be too exciting now since they were shut down months ago.

There's a cool little place in gastown behind the Salt tasting room (not to be confused with salt) and the Irish heather, you have to walk thru them to get to a laneway and then into the place, there have been a few interesting guests there in there last week.
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Theo Fleury, who played for Canada in both the 1998 and gold medal winning 2002 men's hockey team was signing his book at Chapters on Robson today!

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He's not an Olympian, but he is great, I followed Trevor Linden off the Skytrain (yes, he took Skytain to the games) to Canada Hockey Place for the Sweden-Finland game. That was pretty sweet. Saw Gordo near the flame a couple days ago but he's not special.
     
     
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i saw plushenko coming out of the shangri-la on saturday with a woman (gf?)
     
     
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The other day I saw Steve Yzerman and Wayne Gretzky at work in the Shaw Tower.

Today i saw Kevin Lowe and his wife Karen Percy ( she won the bronze medal in Alpine Skiing in Calgary). Gold medalist Jon Montgomery passed by today for a few minutes to say hello and took some pictures.
Also spoke to the captain of the Canada's Gold winning Womens hockey team from 2006 games, Cassie Cambell....very nice woman and so down to earth.
     
     
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The other day I saw Steve Yzerman and Wayne Gretzky at work in the Shaw Tower.

Today i saw Kevin Lowe and his wife Karen Percy ( she won the bronze medal in Alpine Skiing in Calgary). Gold medalist Jon Montgomery passed by today for a few minutes to say hello and took some pictures.
Also spoke to the captain of the Canada's Gold winning Womens hockey team from 2006 games, Cassie Cambell....very nice woman and so down to earth.
My buddy has enjoyed schmoozing with some of the great players and the veritable who's who of Canada's media family while at work in the Shaw Tower the last couple weeks.
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Yeah, i see someone famous almost everyday.

Today, Cuba Gooding Jr. was back. He came for lunch and then left to go watch the 2nd and 3rd period of hockey at GM Place and then came back for some drinks. I got to speak with him for a couple minutes, funny guy.

Another hockey star decided to join us today for drinks and it was none other then Chris Chelios! He and Cuba left together later.
     
     
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who is chris chelios?
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Chris Chelios is an NHL hockey player (now he plays in the AHL). He was one of the oldest players in the NHL. He was drafted by Montreal in the 80s and won a stanley cup with them. He went on to play with Chicago and now Detroit. Now he is on Detroits farm team and he is apparently going to retire soon.
     
     
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Chris Chelios is an NHL hockey player (now he plays in the AHL). He was one of the oldest players in the NHL. He was drafted by Montreal in the 80s and won a stanley cup with them. He went on to play with Chicago and now Detroit. Now he is on Detroits farm team and he is apparently going to retire soon.
Some trivia: he also scored the last ever NHL goal in the Pacific Coliseum, eliminating the 95 Canucks from the playoffs. Ouch!
     
     
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Chris Chelios is an NHL hockey player (now he plays in the AHL). He was one of the oldest players in the NHL. He was drafted by Montreal in the 80s and won a stanley cup with them. He went on to play with Chicago and now Detroit. Now he is on Detroits farm team and he is apparently going to retire soon.
Actually, the Chicago Wolves are the Nashville Predators farm club and according to interviews is in love with playing in the AHL.
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my sister and her husband sat one row in front of gretzky at the canada - germany game. she took a photo of him and he signed their tickets.
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My sis saw the president of Slovakia at the Aquarium along with his posse and an RCMP escort.

My dad saw Shaun White at the Bay. Snapped a pic too...

     
     
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He's not an Olympian, but he is great, I followed Trevor Linden off the Skytrain (yes, he took Skytain to the games) to Canada Hockey Place for the Sweden-Finland game. That was pretty sweet. Saw Gordo near the flame a couple days ago but he's not special.
What!? Don't sell him short - Trevor Linden was on Team Canada in Nagano in 1998!!
     
     
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^That reminds me that I saw Trevor Linden at the men's Canada-US game. Can't quite see his face in this pic my dad took though:
     
     
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^That's Trevor alright! I never knew he was on the Nagano 98 squad...
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^That's Trevor alright! I never knew he was on the Nagano 98 squad...
Linden scored with a minute left to tie the game 1-1 with the Czech Republic. Nobody was scoring on Hasek in that tournament, they ended up winning gold against Russia 1-0.

Hockey genius coach Marc Crawford put these 5 guys out for the shootout:

Theoren Fleury, Ray Bourque, Joe Nieuwendyk, Eric Lindros and Brendan Shanahan.

Looks ok except for the guys he didn't choose: Steve Yzerman, Joe Sakic, Wayne god-damn Gretzky.

Bourque was the biggest mistake, of course.
     
     
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