The Vancouver Canucks and their fans are reeling after the news that top prospect Luc Bourdon was killed in a motorcycle accident in northern New Brunswick on Thursday morning. He was 21.
Bourdon, a promising young defenceman who played his junior hockey with the Moncton Wildcats, Cape Breton Screaming Eagles and Val d’Or Foreurs of the QMJHL, split his first pro season in 2007-08 between Vancouver and the Canucks’ farm team, the American Hockey League’s Manitoba Moose.
He scored two goals and was a plus-7 in 27 games with the Canucks last season. The Shippagan, New Brunswick native was drafted 10th overall by the Canucks in 2005 and was among the last pre-season cuts at training camp just a few months later.
He was an integral part of Brent Sutter’s gold medal-winning squad in the 2006 World Junior Hockey Championship and ended the season with Ted Nolan’s Moncton Wildcats in the Memorial Cup.
After a nine-game stint with the Canucks the following season, he was returned to the QMJHL and helped lead Canada win its third straight gold medal at the world juniors.
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