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FACEOFFO F F I C I A L F A N G U I D E

Right-wing DAVID VAN DER GULIK

gets called up for 6 NHL games.

WHO IS THAT MASKED MAN?On his way to becoming a prime-time puckstopper, Heat goalie Leland Irving survived a bout with cancer.

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LEADING ROLEVeteran enforcer Peter Vandermeer looks after his teammates on and off the ice.PAGE 4

BEHIND THE BENCHwith Jim PlayfairWith the regular season fast approaching, the Heat head coach discusses his team’s strong showing in the preseason.PAGE 6

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Considering the hazards of the position – scorching slap shots, power forwards

crashing the crease, and the like – hockey goaltenders have perhaps the toughest job description in all of sports.

But for Abbotsford Heat goalie Leland Ir-ving, the perils and pressures of being the last line of defence pale in comparison to what he’s already overcome in his life.

Irving, 21, is a cancer survivor. The disease touches thousands of lives in Canada each year – according to the Canadian Cancer Society, an estimated 171,000 new cases of cancer and 75,300 deaths will occur in 2009 – and Irving’s personal experience helps him to forge a special bond with fans in every city that his hockey career takes him through.

“For a select few fans, it seems like you’re really connected,” Irving said following a recent practice at the Ab-botsford Entertainment and Sports Centre. “Being able to relate to them on issues like (cancer), you’re able to understand them a little better and really get to know the person that they are.”

Last season, for instance, when he was playing for the Quad City Flames, Irving got to know a little girl named Maggie. The goalie spotted the youngster cruising around the

ice in her wheelchair during a “skate with the fans” event after a Flames home game, and the two got to chatting. Irving found out that Maggie was battling multiple serious medical conditions, and the pair stuck up a friendship that endured even after the franchise moved from Illinois to Abbotsford in the off-season.

“I was able to give her a call the other day and talk to her,” Irving said. “I don’t know every detail (of her condi-tion), but I still keep in touch. It’s a tough time for her and her family, and I wish them all the best.”

Irving’s own bout with cancer happened when he was eight years old. A bump above his left ear resembling an insect bite was found to be cancerous, and Irving was di-agnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma – a rare form of cancer found most commonly in children.

Irving underwent 14 months of treatment and chemo-therapy, but amazingly, the resilient youngster hardly missed any action with his Swan Hills (Alta.) Grizzlies minor hockey squad during this period.

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It took just over a period of pre-season hockey for Peter Vander-

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Midway through the middle stanza of the Heat’s exhibition debut against the Manitoba Moose on Sept. 25, Vander-meer found himself a marked man after stapling Moose forward John Swanson into the end boards from behind.

After serving his penalty, Vandermeer emerged from the sin bin to find Mani-toba tough guy Matt McCue waiting for him. Gloves hit ice, and a violent-but-entertaining tango ensued.

As Vandermeer was being ushered to the dressing room by the linesman, the veteran enforcer turned to the crowd, flashed a gap-toothed grin, and gave a little thank-you-very-much wave. It was a cheeky bit of showmanship, and the fans roared.

“I was just saying hi,” Vandermeer ex-plained with a smile later. “I was wired up after a big tilt, and playing so many years down in the States, the show was a big

part of the game.”At the age of 33, Vandermeer is in a

different place in his career than most of his 20-something teammates.

On the ice, the Heat need Vandermeer to stick up for his teammates when the game gets out of hand. Off the ice, the Caroline, Alta. native is responsible for setting an example for the youngsters in what it takes to be a pro, in terms of conditioning, nutrition, mental prepara-tion and interacting with the community.

Vandermeer’s role as a veteran men-tor is reminiscent of Crash Davis, Kevin Costner’s classic character in the base-ball movie Bull Durham.

“For all the guys here, myself included, the end goal is to get back to the NHL,” said Vandermeer, who suited up for two games with the Phoenix Coyotes in 2007-08. “But realistically, I’m an older guy, and my chances of that are on the outside. It’s my job to help these guys get there, and make sure they feel comfort-able at the rink and away from the rink so they can do what they need to do.

“Would I like to play in the NHL again?

Absolutely. I got my little taste of it, and I enjoyed it. It’s something every kid dreams of growing up. But every time I help one of these guys get there, it’s a pat on my back, I think.”

Vandermeer’s pro hockey odyssey has sent him criss-crossing the continent for the past 13 years. His stops include Richmond, Va.; Rochester, N.Y.; Provi-dence, Mass.; Trenton, N.J.; and Grand Rapids, Mich.

And by any measure, Vandermeer has been a willing combatant during that journey. According to hockeyfights.com, Vandermeer has 148 scraps in the last seven seasons. Dating back to his junior hockey days with the Red Deer Rebels, he’s spent 4,762 minutes in the penalty box. That’s 79.4 hours, or more than three days.

Given the amount of time he spends there, the sociable Vandermeer tries to make the best of his time in the sin bin.

“Usually the off-ice officials are some great guys to spend some time with,” he said. “And season ticket-holders usually gobble up all those seats (around the

penalty box), so you get a bit of interac-tion back-and-forth with those folks. It’s a great place to watch a game.”

Vandermeer’s scrap book features bouts with such noted NHL heavy-weights as Derek Boogaard, Georges Laraque, Chris Neil, John Erskine and current Calgary Flames tough guy Brian McGrattan.

“Everybody’s that’s there (in the NHL) now had to come through this league,” the longtime AHLer noted.

Over the years, Vandermeer has devel-oped a classic hockey grin. His front four teeth are missing – “Three different fights and one cross-check, over eight or nine years,” he says – but he’s got a false-teeth insert that he wears away from the rink.

Over the last few years, there’s been plenty of media buzz that hockey enforc-ers are going the way of the dinosaur. Vandermeer, predictably, disagrees.

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“I don’t remember a lot about it – obvi-ously some of the bad stuff, the sick nights in the hospital attached to an IV. But I also remember the hockey cards my mom would bring me for finishing my homework, and the support of friends, family and teammates.”

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“Standing on the blue line, singing O Canada as our flag was being hoisted, was a huge moment,” Irving said.

Irving, a first-round pick (26th overall) by the Calgary Flames in 2006, made the leap to pro hockey last season. Initially, he took his lumps as he acclimatized himself to the faster pace of the AHL – through the first two months of the season, he posted a 3.06 goals against average and an .851 save percentage.

But Irving found his game, and he was stellar the rest of the way. At year’s end, his 2.23 goals against average was good for fourth-best in the league, and his save percentage bounced back to a healthy .912.

“I’ve got to build on that and try to be one of the best goaltenders in this

league and put this team in a good posi-tion for a playoff run,” Irving said.

Jamie McLennan, the Calgary Flames’ goaltending coach, said he was im-pressed with how Irving handled the learning curve as a rookie pro.

“He’s come a long way in one year,” McLennan said. “The biggest thing that Leland has adjusted to is the speed and the size of the professional game. When you come from junior, it’s a real big adjustment – even living on your own instead of at a billet’s. On and off the ice, he’s grown so much.

“Now he’s got to fine-tune his game so he can bring it every night and be consistent. He’s come a long way, but he still has a way to go. But that’s the truth about a lot of young goaltenders in the AHL. From an organizational standpoint, in my opinion, he’s on pace to become a solid NHL goaltender.”

Given his Alberta roots, it’s somewhat surprising to learn that Irving latched onto the Vancouver Canucks as his favourite childhood team. In particular,

he idolized goalie Kirk McLean, and he had an opportunity to meet the Canucks keeper through the Make-A-Wish Foun-dation following his cancer treatment.

“He really understood what I had gone through, and just wanted me to have the best experience that I could,” Irving recalled. “It really showed me the kind of guy he was, and allowed me to appreci-ate him that much more.”

That interaction with McLean, to be sure, influenced Irving’s own openness with the fans. As much as people dealing with cancer may draw hope from Irving’s story, he says that interacting with them helps him to keep a healthy perspective on life and hockey.

“If I’m able to provide any sort of inspiration for people like that with what I’ve gone through, then I’ve accom-plished what I wanted,” he said. “But at the same time, people like that have a totally different perspective on life, and it helps me take a step back and appreci-ate what I’ve got.”

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The community is abuzz with antici-pation over the Abbotsford Heat. “Pro Hockey is Here!” says the tagline on all of the Heat promotional material. “All You Will Need is the Edge of Your Seat” is on buses, shelters, billboards and possibly livestock everywhere between Langley and Cultus Lake. The Heat have made it their goal to get informa-tion to every person who wants it, either in print, radio, television or online.

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Now these players have to regroup, refocus and perform. Let’s take Heat forward David Van der Gulik as an example. Last week, Van der Gulik was told by the Flames that he would not be making their team and would be sent to Abbotsford to work on his game. For Van der Gulik, even though he is from the area, it was a punch in the gut.

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As a broadcaster, I look forward to telling this story to you on a daily ba-sis. As a fan, I cannot wait for the puck to drop.

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Q What’s your perfect day off in the off-season?

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Q What’s your favourite movie?

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Q As a teenager, which posters did you have on your wall?

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Q If you could live anywhere on the planet, where would it be?

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Q What’s the best hockey pep talk you’ve ever heard?

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Q As a teenager, which posters did you have on your wall?

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“And then on the other side, I had Steve Yzerman, Dominik Hasek, Chris Osgood, Sergei Fedorov. I was a big Red Wings fan.”

Q You’re from Saskatoon. What’s something you can get in your home-town you can’t get anywhere else?

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Q Which song on your iPod do you hope your teammates never find out about?

A “I’ve got tons. I like country, I like Tina Turner – ‘Simply the Best.’ My mom used to listen to a lot of Tina Turner when I was little, so I think I kind of got hooked on it.”

Q If you could have dinner with anyone dead or alive, who would it be?

A “I’d say Mark Wahlberg, the actor. He’s in a bunch of the movies I like, and he’s from the Boston area where I played the last few years (with the Worcester Sharks). He’s a well-known name around there, and I think he’d be an interesting guy to meet and to see what he’s all about.”

Q If you could be in a commercial, what product would you endorse?

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Q Which player on this team would you trust to date your sister?

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In a scene that illustrates the significant changes in this city over the past few decades, a farm tractor on Sumas Prairie is juxtaposed against a background of residential development, which is spreading over Sumas Mountain.

From rural roots to urban boom, we’re among B.C.’s ‘youngest’ citiesJoe MILLICANAbbotsford News

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With a population that has more than doubled since 1981, 86 per cent of Abbotsford’s current resi-dents are below 65 years of age. At 36.6, Abbotsford residents have the lowest average age of cities in the Lower Mainland and Valley, making Abbotsford one of the youngest cities in B.C.

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