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Doug Low was just being a hockey dad.

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The boys loved the game. Their group was a special one, a rare combination of talent and good spirits.

That he was able to get Canucks tickets through work from time to time was just a bonus. And because he often scored four tickets instead of two meant his son could invite a couple of buddies, too.

And so, one night in 2002, Doug Low carted seven-year-old son Brayden and his two friends, Braedon Arcand and Troy Stecher, to a Canucks game.

The boys posed for a photo, the smiles of the three boys stretching from ear to ear, all holding up pucks that Low had procured from a friend who worked as an off-ice official for the NHL.

Low still has the photo and when he ran into Stecher last summer, he mentioned how he’d recently found the photo at home.

“We were reminiscing about the old days, about the travelling with the teams, and his dad,” Low recalled. “I mentioned the picture … and then with pride, he pulled it out of the archives on his phone and showed it.