Dan Hamhuis: Hockey Is What I Did, My Purpose Is Bigger Than That
The Full 60 with Craig Custance
The Athletic
4.8 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Dan looks back with Craig how he came to the decision to retire, and what it was like to do just that inside the Edmonton bubble.
Plus Dan takes Craig through the process of being a free agent, and leaving Nashville for Vancouver back in 2010. Dan also looks back on the notorious hit on Milan Lucic in game one of the 2011 Stanley Cup Final, that backfired and ended his season.
From there, Dan discusses trying out for Team Canada at the Olympics, missing the cut in 2010, but making the team for the Winter Games in Sochi, winning Gold for Canada.
Dan also tells Craig why it is so important to him and his family to be able to give back to others less fortunate than him, and why his beloved town of Smithers, British Columbia is the perfect place for the Hamhuis family to retire to.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Full 60 featuring Craig Custins and presented by The Athletic. |
| 0:09.0 | Each week we'll dive into the biggest stories in hockey while bringing in unique voices to entertain and explain all aspects of the game. |
| 0:18.0 | Hey, this is Craig and welcome to this week's episode of the full 60. |
| 0:23.2 | And I am thrilled to be joined by Dan Hanhous, who announced his retirement. |
| 0:29.1 | And in very typical understated fashion, I was reading a Q&A that Thomas Trans did in the |
| 0:34.8 | athletic with you, Dan. |
| 0:36.1 | And I like that you were like, I didn't |
| 0:38.2 | realize this was going to be a big deal, that your retirement would be a big deal. But it is a big |
| 0:42.8 | deal. So congratulations. First of all. Thank you. Yeah, I didn't really realize that either. |
| 0:49.2 | And then we got a kind of a flood of text messages and people were telling me that it was all over the |
| 0:56.3 | internet and social media and I was a little bit surprised and but yeah it was uh I'm kind of glad |
| 1:02.6 | that the the announcement I guess if that's what it was is is kind of behind me but need to |
| 1:07.5 | connect with everybody that's reached out and for someone like you you've never been one that's like eager to grab the spotlight, |
| 1:13.6 | but what was the best part about, I'm sure you hear from people you haven't heard from, |
| 1:16.6 | like what were some of the best people to reach out? |
| 1:19.6 | You know, it's just been a whole mix of guys over my career from, you know, the early years |
| 1:24.6 | in Nashville through Vancouver guys and Dallas and back to current |
| 1:30.6 | teammates again, hockey Canada people that I played with and then of course people that |
| 1:35.2 | not necessarily in the NHL world but just friends and family and people that I've known |
| 1:41.6 | for a while. So kind of the whole range of people and, yeah, it was |
| 1:47.3 | people had a lot of nice things to say, which, and it was nice to kind of connect with them a bit. |
| 1:51.5 | So a couple of things I want to get into right off the hop, and just to stay in the moment for a second, |
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