Ask a bunch of millennials to name a professional athlete from Hamilton and the responses are bound to start with Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. Kia Nurse will certainly get some mentions. Same with her brother, Darnell, and her cousin, Sarah. Mackenzie Hughes, too. As well as others.

Dave Andreychuk?

“Let’s face it,” says his father, Julian, “there are guys in their 40s who don’t know who Dave is.”

He’s not being insulting or taking some kind of weird shot at his son. Simply stating facts. As time passes, peoples’ attention moves from the heroes of the past to the stars of today. Many people today will hear the name and think of an arena rather than a 62-year-old former hockey star.

Which helps explain why the Dave Andreychuk Foundation turned out its lights for the final time the other day

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