Kevin Bieksa

Yeah, it was devastating news for us yesterday and really sad.

But so there's so many great stories, though, about Cheech that we have to get him out.

He was such an unbelievable person, you know, self-deprecating, hilarious, passionate about hockey.

So I'm in my hotel room today and I start going through YouTube and I start looking at some of my favorite moments as a Vancouver Canuck.

And I just wonder, how many of those moments did Cheech, you know, call the color for?

And I'm watching some, and it's like, oh, Cheech again.

Cheech again.

Cheech again.

He was a part of all my biggest moments in the NHL playing for the Vancouver Canucks.

And I feel very fortunate because his calls were awesome.

I loved his perspective.

I loved his brutal honesty, right?

But that's not going to be my favorite memories of him.

My favorite memories of him are going to be, you know, going to have a Coors Light with him and Murph and Shorty at Pippen's in Chicago, right?

Or going to Sherlock's in Edmonton to have a beer with them before dinner.

Or meeting them at the Aria Hotel in Las Vegas like we did a few years ago.

And sitting around and shooting the breeze and telling stories and laughing and making fun of each other.

And, you know, I traveled for 10 years with Cheech.

And he was always on the charter, went to hotels, to rinks on the road together.

And after games, when we were flying out after the game, the players would get dressed and we'd bus to the plane.