The former Senators’ impact will be missed from coast to coast.
Justin Morissette fielded a lot of interesting phone calls during his 27 days in Vancouver’s St. Paul’s Hospital.
They ranged from friends and family, to prominent media figures, to the Prime Minister of Canada, all of them expressing admiration for a man whom up until recently had only been known as a local broadcaster for Sportsnet 650.
“It was a weird time for me,” said the 33 year-old Morissette, “a very surreal stretch of my life, while I was in the hospital”.