Maple Ridge’s Brandon Yip will be captain of the first Chinese hockey team to take part in the Olympics.
The former NHLer, 36, is the leader of the Kunlun Red Star, which is a proxy for the Chinese national team that competes in Russia’s Kontinental Hockey League.
He’s surely had one of the most interesting hockey journeys in Canadian history.
Yip had an NHL career that spanned from the 2009-2010 season until 2013-2014, and saw him skating for the Colorado Avalanche, Nashville Predators and two games in his last season with the Phoenix Coyotes.
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