I watched with some amusement on Wednesday night as Chris Bigras piled up 5 points in a 6-3 win by the Attack over the Plymouth Whalers.
Amused in a ” yeah-right ” sort of fashion with Bigras being omitted from returning to the National Junior Hockey team for a second trip to the World Junior Championships.
Earlier in the week, the Attack asked me if I was going to rip Hockey Canada for what the Attack believe is a huge insult to a player that deserves so much better.
Wednesday night at the game, staff members of the Colorado Avalanche asked me the same thing, before they told Chris in person how proud they were of his performance in what had to be a trying week.
Again, I’ll leave Hockey Canada to their own business and see how it plays out.
But here’s the funny thing; Bigras 5 point game came almost exactly 24 years after a similar scenario occurred at the very same JD McArthur Arena.
On December 19th, 1990, a Sault Ste Marie Greyhound defenceman by the name of Adam Foote, a cut from the Canadian Junior team, arrived in Owen Sound and promptly tore apart the Platers with a 5 point game in a 7-4 win for the Greyhounds.
Adam Foote.
He had a pretty good career., primarily, and ironically, with the Colorado organization that now has Chris Bigras as a prospect.
Bigras & Foote have different styles of play, but if history repeated itself 24 years later at the Bayshore, is it a stretch to think Bigras may have an equally lengthy & successful pro career in front of him ?
I’m Fred Wallace