Brock Boeser tried to focus on hockey. But his mind was almost 2,000 miles away on his ailing father Duke. After a year of pain and loss culminating in Duke's passing, he is attempting to move forward. 📚RussoHockey
“He knew it was the last time his dad would see him on the ice,” Laurie says. “He said, ‘Mom, you have to bring him to the game because I know it’s the last time.’ I said, ‘We just can’t. It’s not fair to Dad.’ The game the month before was too much for him. Too much noise. It just was too chaotic.”
“Yet he trucked along for so many years. Never complained. Every time we thought he was done, he’d come back. We just wanted more time with him, and I’m thankful we got a couple extra years.”Brock returned to Minnesota in early May and got to spend Duke’s final few weeks with him.If you know anything about Brock’s career, it feels like he’s always had something weighing over his head.
Brock still writes his friends’ initials and numbers on his sticks to keep them close during hockey season.But Brock is hoping to go into this season finally with a clear mind. He has been working with a life coach to help him deal with the loss of his father and his friends’ accident, which is something he says he “never really dealt with.”
Last week, Brock took his mom to a Michael Buble concert at Xcel Energy Center and got backstage with the Canucks superfan. After the show, Brock took off for the long drive to Vancouver along with his two dogs, Coolie and Milo. He arrived this past weekend.Laurie is in the process of selling her home and plans to move into Brock’s home with Jessica and their two dogs. In the spring, she plans to buy a townhouse and really begin life without Duke at her side.
Laurie plans to travel a lot to Vancouver this season to spend time with her son. It still eats her up that during Brock’s struggles last season, both on the ice and emotionally, she couldn’t visit to help him to “just be a parent.”“I think God gives his toughest battles to the toughest soldiers,” Brock says. “I don’t know how she did it for so long. But it just shows you her love for my dad and how much she cared for him.
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