Titans to honour former NHLer Young

Wendell Young watched his teams hoist championship banners to the rafters six times during his playing days.

Now the former netminder is coming home to witness his sweater being raised to the roof.

The Halifax Titans major midget hockey team is honouring one of its best-known alumni by retiring his jersey in a ceremony Saturday night at the Halifax Forum before the squad plays host to the Dartmouth Subways.

Young, in his first season as general manager of the American Hockey League’s Chicago Wolves, was one of the original members of the Halifax McDonald’s, tending goal for the triple-A midget team that began play in the 1978-79 campaign and became the Titans this season.

Drafted by the Vancouver Canucks in the fourth round of the 1981 entry draft, the Halifax native played 18 seasons of professional hockey, including 10 in the National Hockey League with the Canucks, Philadelphia Flyers, Pittsburgh Penguins and Tampa Bay Lightning.

He holds the distinction of being the only player in hockey history to have won all four North American championship trophies: the Memorial Cup, Calder Cup, Turner Cup and Stanley Cup.

The 46-year-old, inducted into the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame in 2007, is being honoured as part of an alumni night for the McDonald’s hockey program. A reception for former McDonald’s players will precede the ceremony, which begins at 6:45 p.m Saturday at the Forum.  The Titans will face off against the Dartmouth Subways following the ceremony.