Kirk McLean is a well-known name amongst Canucks fans.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Inducted into the Ring of Honour in 2011, McLean played 516 games with the Canucks, including posting four shutouts and a .928 save percentage during their 1994 Stanley Cup run. He reflected on that time, and the pride and gratitude he felt during his induction ceremony.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was just a wonderful feeling to be able to go out there and be acknowledged by the hockey club and the organization, and of course the fans.\u00a0It\u2019s definitely a moment I will never forget,\u201d McLean said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Even after retiring from professional hockey, McLean became an ambassador for the\u00a0Canucks\u00a0organization and continues to connect with the community. McLean believes in the importance and the impact of showing up across the province and has committed to doing as much as he can in support of those initiatives.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m proud of the\u00a0Canuck logo, and I bleed the\u00a0colours, I always have,\u201d McLean said. \u201cThe community has always been great to me and travelling the province to really remote places and spreading the word, and the Vancouver organization and what we do not just for the community of Vancouver or the greater Vancouver area, but the province of BC and even up to the Yukon.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe do a lot of community work with First Nations, so we get into rural communities and just the smiles on not just the kids\u2019 face, but the adults\u2019 face as well,\u201d McLean said. \u201cTo have a little piece of [the] Vancouver Canucks get up there and appreciate them and do some stuff with the kids, whether [that] be on the ice or in the gym, it\u2019s so rewarding.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n
While McLean was originally from Toronto, he considers himself to be a Vancouverite, having spent the majority of his life on the\u00a0West\u00a0Coast.\u00a0The significance of being a part of this\u00a0organization and\u00a0playing a pivotal role in some of its historic moments is something that he carries with\u00a0a strong sense\u00a0of pride.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m lucky, I always will be a Vancouverite, Vancouver hockey player, and I consider myself a Vancouverite\u00a0because I was 20 years old when I got here in \u201887 [and\u00a0I] never looked back,\u201d McLean said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s the best place to watch a hockey game in the league.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Listen to this and much more as\u00a0McLean\u00a0joins Chris Faber on the latest episode of the Canucks Insider Podcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kirk McLean is a well-known name amongst Canucks fans.\u00a0\u00a0 Inducted into the Ring of Honour in 2011, McLean…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":839295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-839294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}