[The Knowledge Project Ep. #49] Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining

Shane: Take me to the Stanley Cup final. You’re a professional hockey player at this point. This is before we get into mining and post-playing career. What is that like?

Brent: I was fortunate enough to play in two Stanley Cup finals, and…fortunate and probably misled a little bit. My first year in the NHL I played with the Montreal Canadiens, and we had a great team. We finished second that year in the standings, and in 1989, we ended up playing the Calgary Flames in the Stanley Cup final. And we lost in six games, obviously really devastating, but as a 21-year-old kid, to play in a Stanley Cup final your first year….