![]() ![]() It follows then that Gord would appreciate Thornton, too, given that Sinden selected him. The singer who adored the team he was now playing for, in part, because of the man who drafted him. Thornton sat stunned as he glimpsed into the life of his favourite singer. “Back in the day, we supported every move Harry made,” Downie told Bob McKenzie in his book “Hockey Confidential” of his Bruins fandom. Downie’s parents asked Sinden to be godfather to their children. As a minor league coach, Sinden also worked in real estate and sold the Downies their home in Amherstview, outside of Kingston, Ont. Harry Sinden, then the team’s general manager, was a family friend. The Downie family obsession with the Bruins began at a young age. He said he and his brother talk nearly every day about their favourite team, a fact highlighted in Downie’s 2017 song and ode to his brother, “You, Me and the B’s.” Thornton, a wide-eyed teenage fan of the band at heart, asks about Gord Downie and Patrick details his favourite singer’s obsession with the Bruins. He works for the team, doing everything from producing interviews to DJ’ing games. Patrick is a lifelong Bruins fan who lives in Boston. When the interview finishes, Thornton and Patrick Downie connect. “That’s Gord Downie’s brother,” the interviewer says, and Thornton’s smile grows wider. The interviewer points behind him, to a man clad in black holding a boom mic. The Tragically Hip was played in his minor hockey locker rooms when he was as young as 12, he says, around the time 1991’s “Road Apples” was released. “Oh, you like that band?” the interviewer asks. Thornton’s wide smile, already his trademark, flashes and he says: “The Tragically Hip.” The musician helped him find a better path, one that eventually led him to the Toronto Maple Leafs.Īnd, Thornton says, “He made me a better person.” In a rare interview on a topic he has often declined to address, Thornton said he was thankful to have Downie in his life. “There was always an open door for Joe,” says Patrick.Īnd in those meetings, Thornton both grew closer with Downie, and became a changed man. Instead, they created an environment where Downie could rest when he needed to, focus on being around his children and make more music, as were his wishes.īut those rules didn’t apply to Joe Thornton, Downie’s favourite hockey player, who over time became a close friend. Gord Downie’s family, led by his brother and newfound caretaker, Patrick, were not necessarily open to regular visits from anyone who wanted to wish Downie well. The Tragically Hip’s final tour had finished months earlier. And the hockey player knows this meeting, which he kept private from his teammates, might be the last with his friend. ![]() The two friends share laughter because they have to: the musician is in a bout with terminal brain cancer. The hockey player wakes up the sleepy park with his boisterous laugh as the musician describes his game. Some characteristics of downs syndrome include: Poor muscle tone Slanting eyes with folds of skin at the inner corners (called epicanthal folds) Hyperflexibility (excessive ability to extend the joints) Short, broad hands with a single crease across the palm on one or both hands Broad feet with short toes Flat bridge of the nose Short, low-set ears Short neck Small head Small oral cavity Short, high-pitched cries in infancy Sufferers of Downs Syndrome are ussually smaller than their normal peers and their physical and intellectual development is ussually slower.Beside him stands the other man: an adored Canadian rock musician, regaling him with exploits from the hundreds of games of shinny he’s played as a goalie on that rink. Downs Sydrome is caused by non disjunction of the 21st chromosome (humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes - each parent supplies 23 chromosomes to the child getting a total of 46) which means chromosome 21 in the mother has not split like it should when making sex cells ( gametes) and the child ends up with 3 copies of chromosome 21 compared to the usual 2. Refering to someone with Downs Syndrome - so really should be " downsie" It is a genetic condition that is increasingly common the older the mother of a child is when she falls pregnant. ![]()
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