Bieksa was at The Q Centre on Saturday coaching his son’s team in the Under-18 Island Cup tournament
Kevin Bieksa’s days of firing point shots on NHL goalies and hammering NHL forwards into the end boards as a member of the Vancouver Canucks or Anaheim Ducks are long over, but that doesn’t mean he’s done with hockey. Far from it.
“I love coaching the kids. Love seeing them progress and grow and love the game like I did when I was their age,” Bieksa said after guiding Fairmont to a 4-3 win over Bourget College of Quebec. His son, Cole, a star forward on the team that is based at the Ducks’ practice facility in Irvine, is in his senior year of high school so, like many of the Fairmont players, is in his final year of minor hockey.
While Cole, who was born in Vancouver, mulls over his future in hockey, which could land him in the B.C. Hockey League or Western Hockey League, Bieksa is hanging up his clipboard, for a while anyway. “The big winner is the NCAA teams as they will now have a larger pool of players to choose from, and the players will have more options, but like everyone else in hockey, we’ll have to wait and see what this means for junior hockey clubs in Canada and the U.S.”
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