Overtime Podcast: Season 2 - Ep 16 - Alexander Daigle
Alexander Daigle joins us this week! Alex was one of the most highly anticipated players ever to come out of Canadian Junior Hockey - A 6-foot and 200 -pound center, possessing ridiculous speed & stickhandling skills, he tore apart QMJHL in his draft year, accumulating a staggering 137 points in only 53 games for the Victoriaville Tigres - it was easy to see how such production and domination vaulted him to the top of prospects for the 1993 NHL Entry Draft.
He was selected 1st over-all by the Ottawa Senators, but struggled to ever reach the lofty expectations placed on him by NHL scouts and fans alike. After seven disappointing NHL seasons, he walked away from the game entirely, and retired from hockey at the very young age of 25.
After a two years absence however, he regained his passion, and returned to the NHL and played for 3 more seasons, and quietly earned respect from his coaches and teammates alike.
Now, 48 years old and with a documentary on his career recently released on Amazon, he is opening up on what that experience was like to have had those expectations thrust upon him as a teenager. He is very open and candid about his struggles and his thoughts on the professional career that he did manage to have, and what the sport of hockey means to him today... A VERY interesting and revealing conversation - ENJOY!!
Alexander Daigle joins us this week! Alex was one of the most highly anticipated players ever to come out of Canadian Junior Hockey - A 6-foot and 200 -pound center, possessing ridiculous speed & stickhandling skills, he tore apart QMJHL in his draft year, accumulating a staggering 137 points in only 53 games for the Victoriaville Tigres - it was easy to see how such production and domination vaulted him to the top of prospects for the 1993 NHL Entry Draft.
He was selected 1st over-all by the Ottawa Senators, but struggled to ever reach the lofty expectations placed on him by NHL scouts and fans alike. After seven disappointing NHL seasons, he walked away from the game entirely, and retired from hockey at the very young age of 25.
After a two years absence however, he regained his passion, and returned to the NHL and played for 3 more seasons, and quietly earned respect from his coaches and teammates alike.
Now, 48 years old and with a documentary on his career recently released on Amazon, he is opening up on what that experience was like to have had those expectations thrust upon him as a teenager. He is very open and candid about his struggles and his thoughts on the professional career that he did manage to have, and what the sport of hockey means to him today... A VERY interesting and revealing conversation - ENJOY!!
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