Wes McCauley’s ‘Conflict of Interest’ a Serious Miss for NHL
April 19, 2023 by Shane Seney
For me, this story starts in 1998. My parents surprised their 13-year-old hockey obsessed son with season tickets to the Ontario Hockey League’s (OHL) Barrie Colts and my family would go on to hold these tickets for more than a decade. 1998 is significant here because of the fact during the 1998-99 season, the Colts pulled off one of the biggest and most lopsided trades in junior hockey history, which ended up bringing in the dominant Sheldon Keefe to Barrie. Keefe was as talented as any player in junior hockey, with a competitive fire that was unmatched on the ice. The only problem was, at the time, the talented youngster had a ton of baggage.