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A moment will arrive, sooner rather than later Cliff Ronning hopes, where he will face a dilemma: Does he don a New York Rangers jersey?

Ronning’s record-smashing son Ty has signed an entry-level contract with the NHL’s Rangers, the franchise that Ronning and his Canucks teammates so memorably lost to by a goal in Game 7 of the 1994 Stanley Cup Final.

“I’m still a Canucks fan, of course,” Ronning said. “Am I a Rangers fan? I’m a Ty Ronning fan.

“Hopefully he gets a chance to play an exhibition game or some league games down the road and I’m sure I’ll, uh … I don’t know what I’ll do. That’ll be an interesting thing.”

Ty Ronning scored 61 goals for the Vancouver Giants this season, and won the Western Hockey League’s Doug Wickenheiser humanitarian award for his community work.

Poppa is proud, naturally. But this is the father’s day.

Being inducted into the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame means a lot to Ronning, who at 5-foot-8 and 170 pounds had to scrap his whole life for on-ice acceptance.

“It’s not something you set out to do,” Ronning said. “You grow up playing hockey in the streets of B.C., to be inducted into the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame means a lot. I never expected it, but it’s sure an honour to be a part of it, to join so many other athletes.”

Five feet and eight inches weren’t the only numbers that stood out in Ronning’s hockey career.

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There were the 483 points he racked up in three junior seasons with the New Westminster Bruins; his six productive Canucks seasons in which he averaged 25 goals per 82 games; 18 NHL seasons in all; and Ronning is still the all-time leading Canadian scorer in international play (72-79-151 in 97 games).