Michael Bublé Becomes Part-Owner of WHL Giants
December 18, 2008 by Jeanne Dupuis
Filed under Fan Fare, News
I don’t know how I missed this but last week, it was announced that Canadian singer, Michael Bublé, became the part-owner of the WHL Giants junior hockey team. His partner’s include Ron Toigo, Pat Quinn and the great 
Gordie Howe.
The Burnaby, British Columbia native told the Vancouver Sun that his goal is to eventually own the Vancouver Canucks (wow!). Here’s what he said: “My goal, and it might be a ridiculously silly goal, is that I would love to own the Canucks one day as well,” continued the 33-year-old crooner from Burnaby. “I have a lot of work to do but, you know, you dream, right? You set ’em high and if you don’t make it, you still land pretty close to where you want. This is a huge start for me.”
“If you ask my dad and my mom, my hockey career started in our house and garage where I ruined every wall because I put hockey pucks through them. I played as a kid and I think my hands were pretty good but my skating was atrocious. I was a forward and I didn’t backcheck. I watched Pavel Bure and I figured if he can wait at the [red] line, I can do that, too. But apparently I wasn’t as fast as Pavel.”
Earlier this year, Bublé told an Australian television show that he actually wanted to be a hockey player when he was a kid.
image: Bauer-Griffin
