On this episode of the Hockey Talk Podcast, The Sin Bin’s Cameron Turner interviews former Olympian and AHL veteran Jon Blum!
Jon speaks on…
- Growing up playing roller hockey
- Small amount of youth on-ice competition in California
- Having been recruited by the WHL at age 13
- As a teen, losing a sibling and having a family cancer diagnosis
- Being the first California native to get picked in the first round of the NHL Draft
- Holding captaincy in both the WHL and World Juniors
- Difficulties with the NHL/AHL balance later in his career
- Transitioning to Russia for the KHL, captaining a foreign team
- Honor of being chosen for the 2018 USA Olympic Team
- Sitting on the Board of Directors for USA Hockey
- Playing in Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic
- His taste in music and other rapid-fire questions
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