New Vancouver Canucks assistant general manager Emilie Castonguay has revealed that the idea of having a top job with the Canucks is high on her “vision board.”
It might seem like a curious anecdote to local journalists, or a sign that they were dealing with a highly motivated, organized person who pays a lot of attention to detail. But in reality, it was much more than that.
When Castonguay switched from English to French during her Zoom conference, what’s on her vision board suddenly became clearer.
It was heavy with meaning and deeply human. It bore the mark of mourning, of love and of this invisible power which sometimes provokes what seems to us to be serendipity.
“My sister died about 10 years ago in a somewhat tragic way,” Castonguay said. In one of the last conversations we had in her life, she told me that I would one day lead the Vancouver Canucks.
“Actually, that was the last conversation I had with her. Let the Canucks call me…it was quite an emotional moment for me. This is one of the reasons why I had to consider and listen to what Jim Rutherford had to say to me. For the Vancouver aspect, he didn’t really have to convince me, but I felt that it was a bit the universe that brought me there.
