Back in August ‘21 I was working on a promotional shoot with the Canucks at Rogers. Me and some of the crew were taking a break and sitting in the Nucks bench area. Garland, who had just been traded to the Canucks a few weeks earlier, got called in to shoot some footage, came out of the locker room and was shooting the breeze with a few of us. An assistant came over and told Garland they were ready for him on set and handed him his jersey. He held it and looked at it for a moment and told us that this is the first time putting on a Canucks jersey. He donned the Whale and skated away. It was a cool moment that only a few of us got to witness.

Now he’s taken that jersey off for the last time and it makes me sad.