In 1995, Bryan Adams played the opening of a new arena for the Vancouver Canucks known as GM Place.

Friday night, team forward Evander Kane came onstage during the singer’s Roll With the Punches Tour at Rogers Arena to unfurl a banner commemorating the Bryan Adams performing at the 30th anniversary of the venue opening, noting that he was only four-years-old when the first show took place.

While the whole thing was obviously planned in advance, it’s now part of the history of both the artist and the arena. Adams decamped to the U.K. decades ago, but there is always something of the North Van kid turned superstar about him. Last night, with his 97 year-old mother in the audience watching, the singer looked up at the banner and proclaimed “I’m speechless.”

For a moment, his incredibly s

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