MANITOBA MOOSE
The
Comeback Song
of Scott Glennie
Does the name Scott Glennie ring a bell? For fans of the Brandon Wheat Kings, Dallas Stars, and now Manitoba Moose, it should. Glennie – the Manitoba Moose’ s latest comeback kid – carries with him a story of perseverance and dedication. From can’ t miss prospect to comeback veteran, Scott Glennie still loves the game of hockey.
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By Carter Brooks Photos by Will Borys and James Carey Lauder
Taking one’ s game from minor hockey in Winnipeg to the Western Hockey League to the National Hockey League is a long climb up a seemingly never-ending ladder. Scott Glennie, one of the greatest bantam and midget players in Winnipeg history, a former junior star with the Brandon Wheat Kings and a first-round Dallas Stars draft pick, is still making his way up the steps – rung-by-rung.
It’ s quite a story. A story of perseverance, dedication and the power of hockey. Somehow both Glennie and current Philadelphia Flyers forward, Brayden Schenn fell to Kelly McCrimmon and the Brandon Wheat Kings in the 2006 WHL Bantam Draft. Both players went on to play four sensational seasons with the Wheat Kings, and in the process, heard their names called within the first 10 selections at the 2009 NHL Entry Draft. Schenn was taken by the Los Angeles Kings with the fifth overall selection, while Glennie went eighth overall to the Stars. Following the 2010-11 WHL season – a year in which Glennie played alongside fellow Manitobans Mark Stone, Michael Ferland, and Ryan Pulock – Glennie moved up to the Stars’ American Hockey League affiliate in Texas. It was with the Texas Stars where things started to become, well, a little complicated. Glennie spent the next five seasons playing in the AHL for the Stars, only seeing action in the NHL once. While his former Wheat Kings teammates, Schenn and Stone helped lead their respective NHL clubs to playoff appearances, Glennie found himself in the minors. Although, in fairness, he was playing for a legitimate contender. After battling for, and eventually capturing, the Calder Cup with the Stars in 2014, Glennie enjoyed one more solid season with Texas, putting up 39 points in 69 games. But that success did not come without struggle as Glennie constantly found himself in a sea of discomfort.