The pride of Tsawwassen and his long-time Chicago Blackhawks’ teammate are headed to the BC Hockey Hall of Fame (BCHHF).
Brent Seabrook will be joined by Duncan Keith when the 2023 induction class is honoured in July. The pair combined to win six Stanley Cup rings with Chicago and logged plenty of ice time together on the blueline during those memorable runs.
“It is unique and almost unheard of that two defenders who played together as a pair at the highest level for so long will be inducted together,” said former Hockey Night in Canada broadcaster and BCHHF chair Jim Hughson.
Seabrook is the most accomplished player ever to come out of the South Delta Minor Hockey Assocation, making the jump from Bantam rep to Junior “B” and helping the Delta Ice Hawks win their first-ever championship when he was just 15.
He led the entire league in playoff scoring that year and it was only a sign of more great things to come.
He went on to enjoy a stellar Western Hockey League career with the Lethbridge Hurricanes and was selected 14th overall by Chicago in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft.
Fifteen decorated NHL seasons with the Blackhawks followed, highlighted by Stanley Cup wins in 2010, 2013 and 2015. Each time Seabrook’s designated day with the cup was spent in his hometown and included a city-hosted mini-parade.
“That’s the cool thing about the Stanley Cup is you get a day with it and you bring it home and go around and show it up,” he told the Optimist in an interview last year. I brought it to Delta Hospital. The police station and fire hall. Just little things like that. I think as hockey players there is an obligation a little bit to share it and show people. The satisfaction for me is the look on people’s faces when they get to see it and touch it.”
In total, he played more than 1,200 games for Blackhawks, producing more than 500 points, including 123 goals. Lingering injuries forced the now 37-year-old to step away from the game in March of 2021.
He also thrived on international ice, helping Canada win World Junior gold in 2005 and was a member of the Olympic gold medal winning hockey team in 2010 in Vancouver.
Seabrook now resides in Kelowna with his wife Danya and their three children. He also is a player development coach with the WHL Vancouver Giants.
Keith and his family moved to the Okanagan when he was a teen. He signed with the B.C. Hockey League’s Penticton Panthers when he was 16. The Blackhawks selected him in the second round of the 2022 NHL Entry Draft.
Joining Seabrook and Keith as part of the 2023 BCHHF induction class are the 2007 Memorial Cup champion Vancouver Giants in the team category, former NHL official Lonnie Cameron and Ronnie Patterson in the builder category.
Patterson was a one-time goaltender for the Canadian men’s national team and currently owns the White Rock Whalers of the Pacific Junior Hockey League.
His business interests includes ownership of the Landing Pub & Grill.
