We catch up an old friend from my playing and coaching  days Bruce Garber. He has a great career in the game of hockey. 

Bruce starts off telling how he played hockey and other sports outside of Boston in Chelsea. His first organized hockey was at the age of six in Pee Wee hockey in Revere with Mike Eruzione from Olympic Hockey Fame. 

When Bruce was starting high school his dad became the trainer to the Milwaukee Bucks in the days of Oscar Robinson and Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul Jabbar). Great stories about his time with dad and the Bucks. 

He played high school in Wisconsin and set the state record for scoring which was broken a year later by Mark Johnson who was on the 1980 Olympic Team and then Lane McDonald from Harvard broke the record and still holds it. 

Bruce started out at the University of Wisconsin playing hockey and baseball. A week before the hockey season started Bruce found out he could not play his freshman season because of rule in the WCHA and USHL. So he left school and went to Canada in Laval and played on a team with Mike Bossy and Ray Bourque. Ray was his defensive partner and said you could see Ray's talent at 15 years of age and Bruce was 19. After the season he was able to get to Providence College with Lou Lamoriello and his life in hockey was going to change without his knowledge. 

It is a great start to a fun interview with my buddy Bruce Garber.