Hockey: Vancouver's Lucic 'honoured' to be picked for Canada's Olympic team camp

Rugged Boston Bruins winger calls it 'a really special feeling' if he gets to play for his country in his hometown come February By Elliott Pap, Vancouver SunJuly 2, 2009 Photograph by: Dave Sandford, NHLI via Getty Images files VANCOUVER — It was the summer of 2003 and Milan Lucic, barely 15 years old, was hanging around with his buddies talking up the 2010 Winter Olympics, which had just been awarded to Vancouver. "Me and some people were joking around saying 'I'll be 21 then and, you know, there's a chance I'll make the team,' but we were just joking around and laughing about it," Lucic recalled Thursday after he was one of 46 players — along with Canuck goalie Roberto Luongo — named to Team Canada's August orientation camp in Calgary. "Now that it's a reality, it would be a really, really special feeling if I did... [read full story]                    

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