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By Earl Seitz

Shuswap native

Former Vancouver Canuck Rob Flockhart dies

Jan 4, 2021 | 9:55 AM

Former Vancouver Canucks forward Rob Flockhart has died.

The Sicamous native was 64.

Flockhart played for the Kamloops Chiefs in the Western Canada Hockey League, now known as the Western Hockey League, from 1973 to 1976.

He played for Canada in 1976 in the second ever World Junior Hockey Championship.

Drafted in round three, 44th overall, in the 1976 NHL draft by the Vancouver Canucks, Flockhart played 55 NHL games over five seasons with the Canucks and Minnesota North Stars.

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He retired from pro hockey after the 1984-85 season.

In recent years Rob Flockhart had lived in Kamloops.

He is the older brother of former NHL player Ron Flockhart.

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