EDMONTON -- He saved precious hockey memorabilia from the flames, but one of Canada's biggest sports collectors says the Fort McMurray fire may have cost him his hobby.
"I don't know that collecting means as much to me anymore," said Shawn Chaulk, who was once referred to as the Wayne Gretzky of Wayne Gretzky collectors.
Chaulk's collection is prodigious.
It includes dozens of game-worn jerseys and sticks, some worth up to $20,000. He has more than 100 Gretzky sticks from one used in the 1978 world junior tournament to one used in Gretzky's last game with the New York Rangers in 1999.