Ed Jovanovski was one of the featured guests at the Western Canada Collectibles Experience at Langley Events Centre back in April. Next week’s show will feature four members of the 1972 Canadian Summit Series team – Yvan Cournoyer, Dennis Hull, Peter Mahovlich and Dale Tallon – as well as Jeremy Roenick and former Vancouver Canucks’ Todd Bertuzzi, Richard Brodeur and Gino Odjick.
The Western Canada Collectibles Experience is back at Langley Events Centre November 18 to 20.
Four members of the Canadian team from the famed 1972 Summit Series between Canada and the Soviet Union will be among the featured guests at the Sports Collectors Convention at the 2022 Western Canada Collectibles Experience.
The event takes place in conjunction with Bossa Productions November 18 to 20 at Langley Events Centre.
The scheduled guests include Yvan Cournoyer, Dennis Hull, Peter Mahovlich and Dale Tallon – who were members of Team Canada for the Summit Series, an eight-game exhibition against the USSR in 1972 – as well as Jeremy Roenick, Todd Bertuzzi, Richard Brodeur and Gino Odjick.
“Every year we love seeing the Western Canada Collectibles Experience grow from both a vendor and fan aspect and this year is no different,” said Tyler Dinwoodie, Associate Director, Production Services & Communications for Langley Events Centre.
“Our autograph guest line-up is going to be appeal to fans of all generations and having Yvon Cournoyer, Dennis Hull, Peter Mahovlich and Dale Tallon here gives us the opportunity to do our part to honour the 50th anniversary of the Summit Series, which is such a significant piece of Canadian sports history.”
Guests
Yvan Cournoyer, Dennis Hull, Peter Mahovlich and Dale Tallon played for Team Canada in the epic eight-game series, which celebrated its 50th anniversary this year.
Cournoyer spent his entire NHL career with the Montreal Canadiens, helping the team win 10 Stanley Cups, and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1982. He first played for Montreal in the 1963-64 season and retired in the 1978-79 season after playing 968 regular season games with 428 goals and 863 points.
Hull was in the NHL from 1964 to 1968, playing 959 regular season games, primarily with the Chicago Blackhawks, where he scored 303 goals and 654 points.
After beginning his career with the Detroit Red Wings in the 1965-66 season, Mahovlich joined Montreal in 1969 and helped the Canadiens win four Stanley Cups. Following a few seasons with the Pittsburgh Penguins, he retired in the 1980-81 season back with the Red Wings. Mahovlich finished his career with 288 goals and 773 points in 884 games.
Tallon was the first-ever draft pick of the expansion Vancouver Canucks in 1970, spending three seasons on the West Coast before playing five seasons with Chicago and another two with Pittsburgh. The defenceman scored 98 goals and 336 points in 642 career games. He would later become an NHL general manager with both Chicago and the Florida Panthers.
Joining them on stage at Langley Events Centre will be nine-time NHL all-star Jeremy Roenick. Drafted eighth overall by the Chicago Blackhawks in 1988, Roenick scored 513 goals and 1,216 points in 1,363 career regular season games over the course of his 21-season career with five teams, retiring in 2009. He ranks fourth all-time among American-born players in both goals and points.
The rest of the autograph guests all have ties to the Vancouver Canucks as Todd Bertuzzi, Richard Brodeur and Gino Odjick are set to appear at the show.
Bertuzzi was drafted by the New York Islanders in the first round in 1993 and his career blossomed a few years later when he was traded to Vancouver, becoming one of the NHL’s dominant power forwards as part of the West Coast Express line with the Canucks. He spent 17 seasons in the NHL with six teams and finished with 314 goals and 770 points in 1,159 regular season games, retiring in 2014.
A seventh round draft pick by the New York Islanders in 1972, Brodeur first played in the World Hockey Association with the Quebec Nordiques before becoming a full-time NHL goaltender with Vancouver in 1980.
Nicknamed King Richard, Brodeur backstopped the underdog Canucks all the way to the 1982 Stanley Cup Finals, the first time Vancouver advanced that far. He finished his NHL career in 1988 with all but eight of 385 games played with the Canucks.
Odjick was a fifth-round draft pick of the Canucks in 1990 and made his NHL debut that season. He would later play for the New York Islanders, Philadelphia Flyers and Montreal Canadiens, Odjick retired in the 2001-02 season with 605 NHL games on his resume with 64 goals and 137 points, as well as 2,567 penalty minutes.
Weekend Details
Doors are open 4:00 to 8:00pm on the Friday, 10:00am to 6:00pm on Saturday and 10:00am to 3:00pm on the Sunday with admission prices $20 for the first day, $10 on Saturday, and free on Sunday. Everyone ages three and over requires a ticket. Autographs are available for purchase and the featured guests will be on site Saturday and Sunday.
The Western Canada Collectibles Experience also features more than 200 vendor tables with collectibles dealers and retail merchandise available from all eras.
For more or to purchase autograph tickets, please visit www.westerncanadacollectiblesexperience.ca.
