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Congratulations to Darcy and his wife Lisa on the birth of their new baby boy.

The little bruiser was born on Sunday, February 22nd.

Last night was my very first Dice & Ice event with the Canucks and I must say I am very impressed with the way everything was run.

The theme was “Hockeywood” and it was great, they couldn’t have done it any better. You’ve got to give credit to everyone who was part of the event props – it’s definitely one of the better events I’ve been a part of. I know how hard the community crew worked on the event here and it showed because everything went so smoothly.

I think it was fun the way they had it set up. Having the Blackjack tables set up was a good way for us to interact with fans, which was different that what we did in Nashville last year, where we had a “Queen of Hearts” theme and I did some magic tricks on stage so it was different.

It’s so great to be part of an event that is part of such a good cause and raised almost $300,000 for children’s charities around the Lower Mainland.

I ran a Blackjack table at the beginning of the night in the VIP (or highrollers) section of the “casino”. I think I probably gave away the most purple chips, which is the $10,000 chip, of all the tables. We had some big winners last night so maybe there will be more people looking forward to going to Vegas after getting a few tips and pointers – they’ll have better odds.

A lot of people would win money at the other tables then they’d come to the VIP area, which was our area, and so if you want to win big money, you’ve got to play with big money. That’s exactly what happened last night. Paul and Jeff were probably the two biggest winners of the night and they were from my table. My job is to go out there and deal the cards and put money in people’s pocket and give them advice and that’s exactly what we did.

Every player puts together a baskets for the silent auction and my wife and I did a baby basket because we’re expecting so it just made sense. We’re going through that whole process and know what expecting parents would need and what to put in the basket. I’m glad we were able to do something like that and help out.

Because of the movie theme, every player was introduced accompanied with a movie and I got “Fight Club”. So I decided to try and show a little personality out there, I rolled up my sleeves and got into character. Why not, right?

The best movie-player pairing had to be Alex Burrows – he got Bambi. I think it describes him 100%, him coming out with Bambi and Thumper, that’s the way he is sometimes on the ice. He was a good sport about it, so it was good.

From what I hear, traditionally, rookies would have to do something on stage and this year was no different. Mason Raymond and Steve Bernier teamed up against Jannik Hansen and Alex Edler to re-enact a scene from Jerry Maguire – I don’t think I need to tell you which one… They each did the same scene and competed to see who would do the best.

The winner was decided by out had guest judges, Kevin Bieksa, Ryan Kesler, Alex Burrows to critique kind of like Idol a little bit. For the most part, the judges were hard on those guys.

Bernier pulled it off even with his French accent, nobody understood but with Burrows being one of the judges, I’m sure there was some politics and favouritism. Mason came away with the Oscar performance, I think he kind of pulled it together for Bernier and they beat the other two.

I think these guys maybe stressed a little bit more than they had to over the six lines that they had to say and it just goes to show you that practice makes perfect. They practiced all afternoon and they pulled together at performance time.

I never had to do anything like that on stage but I’m sure I could’ve matched their work. Overall, the event was great and I’m glad I was able to be part of something like that.