

Mark Brennan
Hall of Fame NHL Equipment Manager
My favorite hockey moment that I remember the most is, when I was growing up in Toronto, we've got a hockey games. At the Old Maple Leaf Gardens and we would sit in the upper sessions. They were the greens of the time of the mezzanine seats and in the lower section Maple Leaf Gardens. The time, the lower seats were the goals and I asked my dad once I said, why is it that who sits in the Gold section? And my dad said, well, those are, were people said that can afford them, more expensive tickets. Unfortunately, we're not going to be sitting in the goals, but we were sitting in the mezzanine seats, but it was great to be at hockey, answer me with Gardens. And when I got to the NHL, my dad passed away. When I was 15 and our first game at Maple, Leaf Gardens. I handle the tickets for the team. That was one of my duties on players had requests for tickets. I would go to the ticket office, I actually bought a gold ticket and left it in my dad's name at will call. And I mentioned the one of the actors that I knew, I said, please whatever you do, make sure no one's That's it. I've already paid for it and if the person comes and get the ticket great, if not, just make sure no one else sits in that seat after the game, the Esther who I knew came up to me and said, you know, we watch that seat for you for the whole game and there's no one came to pick up the ticket. There's no one sat in the seat and I said, well, I didn't tell him what I had done or the reason I done it. But I knew my dad was there watching the game. He always wanted to sit in the Gold's and my opportunity when I got the energy. I was to give him the ticket to the gold section to Maple Leaf Gardens. So that will always be one of the highlights that I made it in a gel and I was able to do something for my late father and it'll always be a moment that I will cherish because I know when I was standing on the bench looking over the empty seat, I knew somebody was sitting there so that would be the moment that I relish the most in my career.