There was a time during his school years when Brendan Gaunce was at centre stage when he wasn’t at centre ice.
He loved acting. He sang and danced, even played a woman in one school play. He understood roles, learned to adapt his personality to fit his character.
That ability to adapt may get him a National Hockey League career, too — as long as his costume shows up.
Gaunce was with the Vancouver Canucks on Wednesday, but his equipment — skates, sticks, pads, helmet — was spending an extra day at JFK airport in New York.