HALIFAX — Kirk Furey boarded a plane at age 16 with the knowledge his hockey journey — his dream — would likely take him far from home.
Nearly three decades later, that path through leagues on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean brought him right back to where it started.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails or any newsletter. Postmedia Network Inc.
“The one beauty of East Coast people is when they embrace a situation or their own people, they do it 100 per cent,” said Furey, 46, some 20 years after Halifax first held the world juniors. “I don’t think people really understand the magnitude and what it means to the East Coast.His own script, however, has included plenty of twists.Article content
“One of the big things with Kirk was just perseverance,” said childhood friend and teammate Robbie Sinclair. “After that he really took off.” Furey, whose Austrians were blown out in their first two games at the world juniors ahead of Thursday’s date with Canada, was also an inspiration to other Nova Scotia talents looking to make it.Article content
“He would tell the guys behind him, ‘You want to make it? You’ve got to be more committed than somebody else.”‘
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