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Hi All,
Just completed this longform story on the career of Bryan Fogarty, some Avs fans may not know that he was selected by the franchise (Nordiques) ahead of Joe Sakic in the first round of the 1987 NHL Entry Draft. His skill was immense, a generational talent, he may have played a generation too soon.
Bryan's Song
From Avs scout Curtis Leschyshyn when asked about a comparison between Fogarty and Cale Makar:
“The comparison is fair,” he says. “That’s their style, to slither and move in and out of traffic with the puck. (Though) Bryan was six-foot-one, six-foot-two — back in those days, big men didn’t move that well, he was an anomaly. There were only one or two or three guys throughout the league that could play like that and he didn’t play a lot of those games at 100 per cent. He was limited because of the way he lived off the ice. What he had was God-given.”
Just completed this longform story on the career of Bryan Fogarty, some Avs fans may not know that he was selected by the franchise (Nordiques) ahead of Joe Sakic in the first round of the 1987 NHL Entry Draft. His skill was immense, a generational talent, he may have played a generation too soon.
Bryan's Song
From Avs scout Curtis Leschyshyn when asked about a comparison between Fogarty and Cale Makar:
“The comparison is fair,” he says. “That’s their style, to slither and move in and out of traffic with the puck. (Though) Bryan was six-foot-one, six-foot-two — back in those days, big men didn’t move that well, he was an anomaly. There were only one or two or three guys throughout the league that could play like that and he didn’t play a lot of those games at 100 per cent. He was limited because of the way he lived off the ice. What he had was God-given.”
