Brad Schlegel

Brad Schlegel was born in Kitchener in 1968. He played his minor hockey at the “AAA” level beginning with the Bauer Krauts and finishing with the Kitchener Greenshirts. He played his Junior “A” hockey with the London Knights. In 1988 he was the captain and named MVP of the Knights and an Ontario Hockey League All-star.

In 1988-1989 Schlegel joined Team Canada. He has worn the Team Canada Hockey Jersey more than any other Canadian Hockey Player. He was the captain of the Canadian Olympic Team in 1992 that won a silver medal and he was a silver Medallist and the Assistant Captain at the 1994 Olympics and a Bronze Medallist at the 1995 World Championships. He was voted Team Canada’s Top Defenseman in 1995; Team Canada won a silver medal at the World Championships that year.

Schlegel played two years in the National Hockey League for Washington and Calgary. In 1992 he won the Governor General’s Award and the Victor Davis Award for excellence in sport. He played several years in the Elite European Hockey League and represented Canada eight times in the Spengler Cup winning a gold medal in 1996, silver medal in 1988, named to the All-star team in 1989 and won a bronze medal in 2003.

Schlegel has been active off the ice with the Hicks for Kids Foundation helping sick and orphaned children in Germany, the Goals for Kids raising money for sick children’s hospitals in Germany, the Christmas Wish foundation in Austria and the Spinal Cord division of Parkwood Hospital in London, Ontario.

He is married to Heidi and they have one child.