Re: Ciao Luc...

MattBellamy · Post by **MattBellamy** » 29/05/2008, 23:29

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=239196&lid=headline&lpos=topStory_main

Luc Bourdon, il promettente difensore dei Canucks (tante volte citato qui per come lo considerava Jovo... Cazzo a pensarci mette ancora più tristezza) è morto oggi in un incidente in moto. Ancora non è chiarissimo come è successo, pare sia finito sotto un camion o qualcosa del genere.

Madonna che tristezza, 21 anni. Ciao Luc...

rene144 · Post by **rene144** » 29/05/2008, 23:30

Bruttissima storia. Mi spiace per aver segnalato così la notizia...

therussianrocket · Post by **therussianrocket** » 29/05/2008, 23:37

MattBellamy · Post by **MattBellamy** » 29/05/2008, 23:41

Hughes added that he never knew about his client's new hobby. "I had no idea," he explained to CKNW in Vancouver. "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. I have since been told - though I don't know - that he actually bought a motorcycle two days ago."

Cioè aveva comprato la moto due giorni prima. Poco da dire cmq. Ma un ragazzo di 21 anni... Davvero mi mette una tristezza incredibile

The Answer Palermitano · Post by **The Answer Palermitano** » 29/05/2008, 23:58

Cazzo...

E pensare che proprio in questi giorni se ne parlava con jovo nella sezione della Dinasty. E volevo anche prenderlo per fargli uno sgarbo..cazzo che notizia..
Riposa in pace Luc..

Robin · Post by **Robin** » 30/05/2008, 1:14

in alto le stecche per Luc

Hobbit83 · Post by **Hobbit83** » 30/05/2008, 9:30

E' un pò come se fosse venuto a mancare uno del forum..... cacchio....

therussianrocket · Post by **therussianrocket** » 30/05/2008, 11:27

il nuovo Pronger

jovocop · Post by **jovocop** » 30/05/2008, 11:29

All'inizio non volevo postare. Sara' perche' facendo un certo tipo di lavoro dopo un po' provi a distanziarti il piu' possibile da queste situazioni, vedendone quasi ogni giorno. Sara' perche' purtroppo di ragazzi di 20 anni ne muoiono ogni giorno, e il fatto che sia un atleta o cmq una persona relativamente piu' famosa non cambia che sia cmq una vita presa troppo presto da comunque vogliate chiamare il vostro dio.

Poi ho letto questo articolo e mi ha colpito, anche se un po' esagerato in alcune parti lo vorrei quotare in pieno.

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news ... 89304b8351

Friday, May 30, 2008

To many, Bourdon was merely a first-round draft pick of the Vancouver Canucks, a 21-year-old with all the National Hockey League tools but still needing the toolbox to organize them.

"Still." After only one full season of professional hockey.

Less than three years removed from his draft, the defenceman was already absurdly deemed a failure by some, mostly because he wasn't Anze Kopitar.

A lot of people here would have dropped Bourdon-the-commodity long before he crashed his new motorcycle into a truck and died early Thursday in his beloved New Brunswick.

The Canucks lost a good prospect. But the Acadian fishing town of Shippagan lost something more - a hero. And we can't even begin to fathom what Suzanne Boucher lost when her only boy was killed.

"I don't know if you know Shippagan," Guysma Hache said on the phone from there. "It's a very small city - only 2,500 people. We are a French community. The kids around here, they dreamed to have a chance to see Luc Bourdon bring the Stanley Cup here. He was a hero. That was the dream of a lot of kids.

"In our house, we were very close to Luc. I used to have [an outdoor] hockey rink at my house. All the time, he was here to play hockey with my two sons.

"I lost a good friend today. I lost one of my sons."

Hache coached Bourdon for seven years, until he was 12.

During that time, Bourdon was stricken with juvenile arthritis so badly he was confined to a wheelchair. He missed an entire season but went to games, anyway, and was able to play again only with the right combination of drugs and physiotherapy.

Bourdon overcame that. And he overcame Shippagan's isolation at the far eastern tip of New Brunswick, leaving the security of home at age 16 to play in the Quebec League for the Val d'Or Foreurs. When his junior team visited the Acadie-Bathurst Titan, three busloads of Bourdon fans travelled across the Acadian Peninsula to see him play.

And when the Canucks selected Bourdon 10th overall in 2005, the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal declared in an editorial that the province was now "Luc Bourdon Country."

He was the highest drafted player ever to come from New Brunswick and was expected to be the best one since Danny Grant made it to the NHL from Fredericton 40 years ago.

Bourdon was greeted as a conquering hero when he returned from the 2006 World Junior Championship in Vancouver with a gold medal for Team Canada and a tournament all-star award. And when the Moncton Wildcats acquired him from Val d'Or to boost the host team's Memorial Cup bid that year, Bourdon's initial press conference was like something reserved for rock stars.

"I used to run a hockey school and when he came to my hockey school, all the kids were so anxious to see him," Hache said. "He was great with all the kids. He never changed. He was a great ambassador here. We're all very shocked, very sad."

Bourdon was raised by his mom and had no relationship with his biological father. His mother remarried, but Bourdon took no one on the road with him when the Canucks staged their first father-and-son trip in March.

He split this season between the Canucks and their American League affiliate in Winnipeg. He played 27 games for Vancouver, scoring two goals and finishing plus-seven while averaging 12:52 of ice time.

But measured against 2005's sparkling first-round class, headlined by Sidney Crosby, Bourdon's progress frustrated some fans and reporters.

"That was remarkably unfair," former Canuck general manager Dave Nonis said Thursday. "We'd all love our kids to play at 18 or 19, but the fact is, most don't. I think Luc felt the pressure of being a high pick. He put pressure on himself. There were a lot of great players picked [in 2005], but very few had more ability than he had.

"It just took him time to find himself. He wanted to prove to people he could be a top player."

Assistant GM Steve Tambellini said: "I was just thinking today how much was in Luc. There was so much emotion inside him. He didn't always express it, but there was so much passion and emotion in this young man."

Bourdon might have become another Ed Jovanovski, who was remarkably similar in raw ability and inconsistency at that age, or maybe he'd have been Bryan Allen. In one form or another, he was going to be an NHL player. We'll not know how good.

Profoundly sadder, we'll never know what kind of person Bourdon might have become. Might he have inspired and led other Acadians into the NHL? How might he have improved his community?

He was a great son - would he have been a great father or grandfather? How many lives would he have enriched? Would he have made more of a mark in the world than swirling patterns on the ice and a skidmark on a New Brunswick highway?

"He was just a kid," veteran Canuck Trevor Linden said. "He loved music, loved guitar - he had a few of them. He loved video games, loved going down to this hot dog stand on Robson Street. He was just a boy.

"That's the amazingly sad part. His journey was just starting."

When Bourdon was alive, most viewed him as a player-commodity. Now that he's dead, we discover the person.

Cool Hand Luc, take one last bow.

therussianrocket · Post by **therussianrocket** » 30/05/2008, 11:35

non ho letto i vari articoli (forse lo farò) e non mi ricordo bene la regola: un giocatore sotto contratto può praticare attività di questo tipo anche se durante l'offseason? Dipende dalle calusole dei singoli contratti o c'è una regola generale? Mi viene in mente Uwe Krupp.

kachlex · Post by **kachlex** » 30/05/2008, 14:25

Ho letto la notizia per caso su Yahoo....assurdo.

ilya · Post by **ilya** » 01/06/2008, 17:47

Riposa in pace Luc.

rodmanalbe82 · Post by **rodmanalbe82** » 01/06/2008, 17:50

therussianrocket wrote: non ho letto i vari articoli (forse lo farò) e non mi ricordo bene la regola: un giocatore sotto contratto può praticare attività di questo tipo anche se durante l'offseason? Dipende dalle calusole dei singoli contratti o c'è una regola generale? Mi viene in mente Uwe Krupp.

mi viene in mente Jay Williams dei Bulls, che dopo l'incidente in moto mi sembra che non ricevette nemmeno un soldo dai Bulls.

Nigu · Post by **Nigu** » 01/06/2008, 18:04

R.I.P.