Participating NHL Alumni
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Matt Cooke
Cooke played parts of seventeen seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played for the Vancouver Canucks, Washington Capitals, Pittsburgh Penguins, and Minnesota Wild.
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Jim Vandermeer
Jim calls Delta home but prior to that he was part of a large group of brothers who made a living playing professional hockey. After winning the Memorial Cup in 2001 with Red Deer, Jim went on to play 12 seasons in the NHL with Philadelphia, Chicago, Edmonton, San Jose, Calgary and Edmonton.
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Dave Tomlinson
Dave Tomlinson played 15 years of Pro hockey across the NHL, AHL & IHL, and also suited up for Team Canada, and finished his career winning multiple Championships in Mannheim, Germany.
After retiring at the age of 38, Tomlinson continued in the sport he grew up playing…as a Broadcaster, and is the current Colour Commentator for the Vancouver Canucks.
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Denis Pederson
Pederson was selected by the New Jersey Devils in the 1993 NHL Draft (first round, 13th overall). In 2000, he was traded along with Brendan Morrison from the New Jersey Devils to the Vancouver Canucks in exchange for Alexander Mogilny.
Until 2003, he played 435 games in the National Hockey League for the New Jersey Devils, Vancouver Canucks, Phoenix Coyotes and Nashville Predators.
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Anthony Peluso
Anthony Peluso was a 6th round pick of the St Louis Blues in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft after a prominent career in the OHL with Erie, Sault St. Marie, and Brampton. He finished his professional career in 2020 with HC Slovan Bratislava of the Slovak Elite League.
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Colton Gillies
Colton, a Ravens alum, was a first round pick (16th overall) by the Minnesota Wild in the 2007 NHL Draft and spent time playing with the Wild, the Columbus Blue Jackets before moving to the KHL, where he played for Dinamo Riga for four seasons. He spent his junior career as a member of the Saskatoon Blades after playing in the PIJHL with North Delta and BCHL with the Surrey Eagles.
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Mike Brown
Mike is a Surrey native who one of the most feared enforcer of the late 90’s in the WHL with Red Deer and Kamloops before being a first round draft pick of the Florida Panthers. He was a part of the Pavel Bure trade which shipped Bure to Florida and gave Brown the chance to play for his hometown Canucks before wrapping up his NHL career with Anaheim and Chicago.
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Glenn Anderson
Glenn Anderson played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Edmonton Oilers, Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Rangers and St. Louis Blues. Anderson was known for performing especially well in important games, which garnered him the reputation of a "money" player. His five playoff overtime goals rank third in NHL history, while his 17 playoff game-winning goals put him fifth all-time. During the playoffs, Anderson accumulated 93 goals, 121 assists, and 214 points, the fourth, ninth, and fourth most in NHL history. Anderson is also first all-time in regular season game-winning goals in Oilers history with 72.