Oh sure, during his career on the ice, and even post-hockey, he’s been a bit of an asshole, but he’s getting better. But after years of running down his hockey dreams, he finally hangs up his skates for good and takes a job as a talent scout for the LA Kings.īrad’s a pretty cool guy, all things considered, possessed of a sharp wit, and a wry observer of the game both on and off the ice. Jules (on television) finds out Matt has been running a background check on her boyfriend.įormer pro hockey player BRAD SHADE has bounced all over the NHL (including a stint playing for the Habs), never quite becoming the superstar he’d always wanted to be, but never quite giving up either. “Congratulations, Dad, you’re officially a dick!”

Brad reveals his career highlights in The Code I had to think my way around the ice, and I took the same approach off it.” I wasn’t good enough on the ice to have an attitude. They always said I was ‘good in the room.’ I was just being pragmatic. One sportswriter tagged me ‘the Journeyman’s Journeyman,’ a pejorative squared. My last four seasons I spent on a European tour–Germany, Switzerland, Russia, and Finland. For every league game I played, I played two in the bus leagues. One year near the end I got called up from Hartford for a single game and was told I was being sent back down before I untied my skates. I didn’t last long in the league: 457 career games. I played against all the others who mattered. “I played with a bunch of names you’d recognize: Gretz, Mess, Mario. Developed for television by Tim Kilby and Shelley Eriksen

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