Colorado Avalanche

Letter to a Legend: Markus Naslund and Nathan MacKinnon

By: Izzy Cheung, SFU Student Markus Naslund,  My dad was the reason I first learned about you. He was like you, in a way, having been brought to Vancouver at a young age and not knowing anyone in the area. Unlike you, he hadn’t been traded here for Alex Stojanov. Being a recent immigrant from Kowloon, Hong Kong, money wasn’t the easiest to come by for him. The only way my dad could show support for the Canucks was by searching for jerseys to wear at the Salvation Army on East Hastings.  He didn’t go to his first Canucks game…

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