Broken Bryan
by Alissa
Well my story isn't as cool as the ones already
on the site, but here it is anyway. In July, the Canucks were having a
prospects mini camp at Burnaby 8 Rinks, and I just had to check this out,
considering Bryan Allen was going to be there. Well, as luck goes, he broke
his foot, and he couldn't play, but I went anyway. I was standing
at one end of the rink watching the guys and taking pictures, when I noticed
a very tall blond guy standing way over by the dressing room entrance by
the benches. I decided that this had to be Bryan, so I slowly made my way
over to the bench, and talked to the canucks photographer lady, who was
really nice by the way. She gave me a monopod thingy, like a tripod with
only one leg, for my camera. Anyway I decided to walk up to Bryan and ask
him to sign my Canucks media guide. But just as I was about to, he walked
over to where I was sitting (at the end of the players bench) with a bunch
of reporters with TV cameras. So they taped the interview right ! beside
where I was sitting. He was wearing a cast on his foot. He had really cool
pants, these dark green cargos. Anyway, when they finished the interview,
I asked him to sign my book. He asked what my name was, and I told him,
and how to spell it too. But he still almost spelled it wrong. He almost
put two "L"s, so the "i" looks abnormally long. This happens often to me,
by the way. No one can spell or pronounce my name. He was really nice and
really cute too. And to top off this interesting day, me getting an autogrpah
from Bryan Allen ended up being on the news on two different channels.
Kind of embarrassing, but oh well.