All in all, it was just another brick in the wall of Jannik Hansen’s National Hockey League career.
The Vancouver Canucks’ winger played his 500th game Wednesday and Hansen will tell you it beats the alternative.
When he finished high school in Denmark, Hansen wasn’t sure if he could scratch out a living playing hockey. So Hansen, the son of a carpenter, took up a trade.
He began training as a bricklayer.
“Obviously, it’s better to be doing this than to be getting up at six in the morning and working outside in the rain and snow back in Denmark,” he said before the Canucks met the New York Rangers at Rogers Arena.