LOVELAND — After finishing his collegiate hockey career at the University of Denver, Pioneers winger Luke Salazar spent the next four years seeing the world.
The Thornton native and Legacy High School graduate played professionally in Norway, Sweden, Austria and ultimately, in 2015-16, with the Manchester Storm in England.
Then it was time to come back to Colorado.
“I did the European experience,” Salazar, 28, said this week at the Budweiser Events Center. “It was four fun years. I got to see a lot of cool places. But I was excited to start my life back home.