Keith Jones

THE FLYERS’ NEW PRESIDENT OF HOCKEY OPERATIONS GOT HIS START IN BRANTFORD WATCHING WAYNE GRETZKY, THEN WORKED HIS WAY UP TO THE NHL

WITH W. GRAEME ROUSTAN

W. GRAEME ROUSTAN: Let’s go back to Brantford, where this whole thing started. Tell me about being a kid in Brantford and playing hockey there. KEITH JONES: Yeah, so I grew up obviously watching Wayne Gretzky and following his incredible career and watching him play as a junior and coming back to Brantford occasionally to play with the Toronto Young Nationals at that time. He had an exhibition game in Brantford and I could barely see over the boards and I was like, “Oh my gosh, that’s Wayne Gretzky.” And so that’s the way I was introduced to a star player. The best ever to play the game, in my opinion, but there were a lot of players that came out of Brantford. Doug Risebrough comes to mind, and Doug Jarvis…

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