Daughter’s birth prevents Montour from attending jersey retirement night

Brandon Montour was unable to attend his jersey retirement night with the Caledonia Corvairs as his daughter was born that same day in Seattle.

By Sam Laskaris Writer Brandon Montour’s jersey retirement night with his junior squad did not go quite as planned last week. The Caledonia Corvairs, a Junior B squad that competes in the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League (GOJHL), were keen to honour Montour, a Six Nations member, on Oct. 30. The plan was to have Montour, who won the Stanley Cup as a member of the Florida Panthers this past June, in attendance for his jersey retirement night. But as it turned out, Montour, who is now a member of the Seattle Kraken, was not able to come to the Corvairs’ home rink, the Haldimand Country Caledonia Centre, that evening. Caledonia Corvairs’ president Brendan Painter explained what happened. “It’s a bit of a crazy morning,” he said. Montour had played…

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