Chris Levesque - Life After The Game

Life After The Game

The thing I held on to for a while was, What if I did go in and finish the game? Or made a couple of big saves and people saw me? I just had to let it go, have fun with the story, focus on where I am now. Otherwise it would have been too frustrating, always coming back to 'what if?'

In May 2008, The Province interviewed Levesque to reflect on his life since his experience with the Canucks. For a few days after the game, he enjoyed brief celebrity. He said that he treasured the experience, and refuses to watch the only video tape he owns of the game, for fear of his VCR destroying it. Levesque never got to play in a major-junior hockey league, and when he finally earned the starting position at UBC, he suffered two concussions. He later tried out for the ECHL's Augusta Lynx, but was cut.

Levesque currently works as a sous chef for Joey's, a restaurant in Vancouver. The management took advantage of his fame when they opened a location on Broadway, recruiting workers by asking "Hey, who knows Chris Levesque, the guy who played for the Canucks?" According to Levesque, the tactic was actually effective in hiring a few employees. He hopes to have his own location someday, which he says is now his "ultimate dream", along with having a family with his wife Tanya.