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Originally Posted by pure.life
some photos from the Canucks taking their brothers on a road trip
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Brothers AND sisters... Erin Hamhuis' blog:
http://canucks.nhl.com/club/post.htm?id=237
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What do you get when you combine the Vancouver Canucks with five sisters, 11 brothers and two brother-in-laws? A siblings road trip! In total 18 guests are traveling with the Canucks to Dallas and Phoenix this week on the Siblings Trip and Canucks.com is fortunate to have Erin Hamhuis, sister of Dan Hamhuis, as a guest blogger for the adventure.
I’ve never really blogged before, but I’ve never been on a road trip with the Vancouver Canucks either, so it only makes sense to start now.
I’m Erin Hamhuis, Dan Hamhuis’ younger sister, and I’m lucky enough to be on the road with the Canucks right now for the siblings’ trip! Dan first brought this up I think in November, he called and asked if I could get time off from the Credit Union I work at in Smithers, BC, and there was no question, I was very excited and said of course I’d come.
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It's a pretty good read
Not an unattractive lady, either:
Edit: is it any wonder Vancouver is becoming one of the THE teams of choice for players? Some of the best lockerrooms and training facilities anywhere in the league, cushy charter flights, and now they're regularly taking family members along (it was dads a couple years ago, moms another time), and laying all kinds of little perks on them:
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Anyways, after we got to Dallas Monday afternoon, we went to practice with the team and that’s where we kind of met everybody. The team gave us all jerseys with our brother’s name on the back, which was nice, and then we went to the hotel, got settled, had a team plus siblings picture and then the team took us out for dinner to a really really nice steakhouse. We sat at the table and just goofed around and enjoyed our meal and it was really nice. It was very comfortable too and it was really nice of the Canucks to take care of us the way they did; it was pretty special.
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This is one of the benefits of having a former player agent as a GM: he knows the kinds of *little things* that players like, things beyond just the paycheck that you can use to entice them.