The NHL and conservation nonprofit Ducks Unlimited Canada are teaming up to tell stories of current and former NHL players and how access to community ponds and the outdoors helped shape their love for the sport. Today, in the eighth installment in the series, a look back at former goalie Richard Sevigny, who started his hockey career at his local park, never believing he would one day reach the NHL.
As far back as he can remember, Richard Sevigny was always fascinated by hockey. And it was just a few blocks away, at a park in Montreal’s Rosemont neighborhood, where the rather improbable journey of the former Montreal Canadiens and Quebec Nordiques goalie began.
Sevigny was about 6 years old when he first received hockey equipment. It was one of the key moments that pushed him to become a goalie.