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Gino has always been one of my favorites and even my wife, who is not a hockey fan liked him so it is a sad day. She made me light a candle for him and I decided to toast him with some good stuff, the pic may be bad but it's the thoughts that count. Cheers Gino, from my wife and I.

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Wow. This one stings. Some of my earliest childhood memories of the Canucks have Gino in them. I still remember chanting Gino! Gino! Gino! in our basement and flying around on the furniture (the only time nobody would notice and yell at me). Scoring goals in the NHL is hard, Gino's job was tough. 

Absolutely on the Canucks Mt. Rushmore of scrappers/fan favourites. Right up there beside Rypien.

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Saw this on Twitter and seemed a fitting tribute. Beautiful image for a beautiful soul.
 

IIRC, Everson created it a while ago (minus the number), as an indigenous spin on the logo, but it fits very well with Gino’s #29.

 

I might come back and add some more words, but right now, even hours after first hearing the news, I’m still gutted and the words don’t come easily, or they somehow seem insufficient.

 

This one just hit me really hard. :( 

 

Rest in Peace, Gino.

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What a dedicated player and a good human being Gino was.   Some of the very best top entertaining hockey this city ever saw - played with true heart & soul and a true human being off the ice.  You just don't see players like this anymore in todays "Homogenized" NHL.   

 

I'm sure he'll be in a good place. RIP Gino!!!                  image.jpeg.87abedaf9a70a071eb639788f15a7898.jpeg

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Gino.   One of my favourite players on my favourite Canucks team.    Listening to Smyls words about how important he was for that team.   Sure the big Irishman is in the spirit world, welcoming him, sharing a cigar with Gino right now and watching over our team.    

 

Warrior class.   Every group needs guys like Gino.   RIP. 

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5 hours ago, -Vintage Canuck- said:

No one will ever pass Gino.

 

 

Nope.   And he did that in 7.5 years ...444 games.   Odjick was every bit as important to those teams as Probert  was to Detroit, and McSorely EDM/LA.    People are inspired by braveness, especially when conducted in the way he and others did it.  

 

Dave Manson was one tough SOB, and Grimson was not a small body gentlemen.    At 20, this guy just came in and sent a message his first game, that this team would not be pushed around while he was there.   Even his number 66 was a message kind of.  

 

Few players ever, came in and did what he did right away.   Domi, the leagues all time hardest skull, one of the few guys that actually enjoyed fighting, wasn't really taken that seriously until he became a Maple Leaf.   None of the top fighters feared him despite his big mouth, not for a long time anyways.     Manson was a scary vet by then.   Didn't fight as much didn't need too.   Grim Reeper got his ass handed to him by one of the scariest guys ever in Brown.    Was a different era with some really tough players.    He of course paid his dues in pain, as most of these guys, not in goals. .    Brown did that to guys every year he was around.  Like Kocur and Twist - imagine breaking helmets.   Some of those guys did.   Plus back then players literally fought their way into the league.    A lot of guys could handle themselves.   Back when power forwards also fought. 

 

Gino, Antoski, Hunter - the "Fear Line".   Won't ever see anything like it again.   And even back then it was scary.   Antoski was proving he could go toe to toe with the biggest baddest heavy's, Hunter always looked like a World War 1 vet, who'd spent 5 years in trench warfare, and Gino was probably the fastest start fighter for a heavy in the league.   Not to be trifled with.   Plus we had Momesso who looked like he'd spent the weekend in jail, after a bad week of doing bad things.   Diduck was no slouch either ... had a rep for being a feared fighter.   Like Bostons McQuaid, ... or Gudbranson, didn't drop them often but could do some damage when he did..   The heavies respected him.   Babych the leagues strongman or Tim Horton.   Didn't want to fight because why hurt someone?    Courtnall looked like he'd fought the night before every game too lol... what a mean, tough team Quin assembled.   Not sure why Butcher always looked like he was ready to murder someone, but suppose that's why he got the name Strangler.    Sad to see him go but what a trade.   Murzyn would take on anyone who came into his crease - no matter who it was and pretty sure I never saw him win a scrap.   But did it anyways.    One year we had both Gino and Brashear ...  Brashear didn't do what Gino did ... he waited (his own words) and didn't open up until his third season picking his spots. 

 

For those who didn't grow up back then, there were lots of guys who fought 20-30 times a year.   Not one guy maybe getting to 15-20, and mostly just wrestling after a couple punches land and looking to the refs to break it - but all out war. 

 

Gino's spirit is all over this organization.  And will still be up in the banners, even though his number won't ever be retired.    For those that never got to see that era, he's a big reason why older fans still look back at it very fondly.   The Skate is every bit as synonymous to Gino, as it is too Linden, Bure, Ronning, Gelinas, Lumme, McLean and most others that wore it back then.   Sure hope he's honoured in a way that brings some of that into the present and the future.   Every group needs an enforcer or two.  Someone who protects, inspires and encourages, no matter the cost.   And nobody will ever do it as well as he did it for us. 

 

Thank you Gino, for always towing that line.    We will miss you.   What a treasure.  

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I highly encourage anyone who loves hockey to watch Ice Guardians. Gino (Dors, Guddy) attended the premier at the Rio and had a live forum at the end where they answered questions from members of the small audience. It was a very cool event. Gino shared stories and insight with his usual comedic flair.

 

A tidbit...true testament to their friendship, he actually has a child named Bure (Odjick)

 

I feel so sad today....like we've lost a friend.

 

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41 minutes ago, -DLC- said:

I highly encourage anyone who loves hockey to watch Ice Guardians. Gino (Dors, Guddy) attended the premier at the Rio and had a live forum at the end where they answered questions from members of the small audience. It was a very cool event. Gino shared stories and insight with his usual comedic flair.

 

Also...true testament to their friendship, Gino actually has a child named Bure (Odjick)

 

I feel so sad today....like we've lost a friend.

 

That 90s team.  I was probably 10 or 11, and i looked at those players like they were superheroes.  

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12 hours ago, Down by the River said:

Growing up in Haida Gwaii in the 90s, I don't think there was a single athlete more universally loved than Gino Odjick

For all the fans who don’t know excluding yourself @Down by the River Haida gwaii is Canuck crazy ,as is the whole north coast being half native myself           ( Haida) Gino was ,is , and will always be highly revered. Howa Gino ! image.jpeg.39fe9c6172dbd8f66706595ed412a0ea.jpeg

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