Canucks Defenceman Luc Bourdon Killed
What a sad day for hockey fans. Up-and-coming Vancouver Canucks defenceman, Luc Bourdon, was killed in a motorcycle crash in northern New Brunswick. The 21-year-old scored two goals and was a plus-7 in 27 games with the Canucks last season. His agent, Kent Hughes, said that biking was a hobby he had undertaken in the last month: “Another client of ours Kris Letang said Luc let him know he was riding his dad’s motorcycle with some friends a week or two ago,” Hughes told CKNW in Vancouver. “I have since been told – though I don’t know – that he actually bought a motorcycle two days ago.”
As a junior, he played with the Moncton Wildcats, Cape Breton Screaming Eagles and Val d’Or Foreurs of the QMJHL, split his first pro season in 2007-08 between Vancouver and the American Hockey League’s Manitoba Moose. Bourdon was set to resume training next month for the 2008-09 season.
“Luc was a winner, he was a competitor,” said Hughes. “There was no quit in him. He persevered through a lot. He was a great guy and a great teammate.”
You might remember him as being a big part of Brent Sutter’s gold medal-winning squad in the 2006 World Junior Hockey Championship. Here’s an interview with Luc at the World Juniors Hockey Camp.
