Who is Patrick Roy?
” she asked. “No. 33,” the 5-year-old said. “Was he the best one ever?” “Yeaaa. He was good, but he let some goals go in.” Mom gave an embarrassed laugh. “Yes, but we wish he wouldn’t have retired, right?” “He wasn’t getting too old,” Zakkary said. “We miss him.” To James McDaniel, Roy gave a way for him to connect with his son, Austin. At a game together, glued to the family-room TV. “Words can’t describe what he meant to us,” said McDaniel, 37, who estimates spending up to $6,000 on Roy merchandise over the years. “He was just so special.” To Zane Meredith, Roy gave her a reason to drive from her home in Colorado Springs to Denver and watch a game with her girlfriends. “Roy had this attitude,” the 55-year-old said. “He’d take whatever you’d throw at him and he’d give it right back, and then some.” To Susan Trujillo, Roy was a dinner conversation with her husband – even today when they remember the good, but not-so-old, days of Avalanche hockey. “It hasn’t been the same without him,”
