Stu Berry is the 2003 Larry Ashley Award Recipient. The award dedicated to the memory of the late Vancouver Canuck trainer is given out annually to a member of the trainer fraternity. The recipient must be from BC or working in BC and must show many of the same humanitarian values that Larry had.

   Trainer’s equipment managers, and medical staff have been an important part of the game for many years and the men and women who perform this service (many unpaid) do so with little if any recognition outside of the dressing room.

  Stu has spent the last 20 years as a trainer of junior hockey in Prince George. He has seen the team be involved in the Peace Caribou, Rocky Mountain, and now the BC Hockey League. He has helped players such as Tony Twist, Stu Malgunas, and Brad Fast go on to further their careers and has put together a scrap book since 1982 that is on display in the Prince George Sports Hall of Fame.

  Both Orca Bay and Sportsnet recently featured Stu and he will be honored Feb. 25^th in Prince George with “ Stu Berry Night”. He will receive a lifetime award from the BCHL and an Award named after him for volunteer work by the Spruce Kings to go along with the Ashley Award. It should be quite a night for a man who has kept in the shadows for many years being both a trainer and father figure to many who have worn the Prince George colors.

  The Larry Ashley award has a permanent home in a case in the BC Hockey Hall of Fame located in Penticton Memorial Arena. For more information contact the BCHHF Society at 250-490-5211