I'm not from Brantford, but I'm from SOnt, and he was a god to a kid in the 80s. I remember fighting every ounce of my energy trying to stay up to watch the late night games as a little tiny kid. I remember saying as a 3 or 4 year old that I'm going to Edmonton when I grow up, I'm going to work and watch Wayne Gretzky (and it's funny how that almost actually played out, but I got the wrong city). It breaks my fucking heart. You broke our hearts Wayne. Never meet your heroes they say, and it's a funny saying because most of my heroes have actually turned out to be pretty stand up in person too. All but one.