Brandon Yip has had hockey on the brain for more than 30 years.
His mother, Gale Yip, said he walked around the house with a hockey stick in his hand from the time he was three years old.
He would go on to play for the Coquitlam Express in the BCHL, then Boston University’s team and, in 2009, he made his NHL debut with the Colorado Avalanche.
In 2015, he left North America to play hockey in Germany, and made his way to China in 2017 to play for HC Kunlun Red Star of the Kontinental Hockey League.
Yip, 36, was then
