Stan Loewen was in the kitchen cutting up a pineapple when his wife, Tara, yelled from the other room.



“It was a normal Saturday, we weren’t doing anything special, then she yelled over to check my phone,” Stan Loewen said. “At that time her phone was ringing, and I checked mine and saw that Jermaine had been drafted.”



Throughout the day the Loewen family had been keeping tabs on the NHL Draft, but they weren’t huddled around the television or holding their breath. They knew that if Jermaine Loewen was drafted it would likely be in one of the later rounds. But they also accepted that it was highly likely he wouldn’t be drafted at all.



“We were just distracting ourselves,” Tara Loewen said. “Really watching in the background, but trying not to think about it. I was actually just finishing up doing our daughter’s hair.”



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