In this episode we're excited to be joined by a high school buddy from back in the day, Colin Lancaster, who - it turns out - was instrumental in our host meeting his future wife over 30 years ago. Unsurprisingly, it involved a hockey game. We say unsurprisingly because Colin was a high level metro-Detroit youth player who eventually played collegiately at Princeton University. Colin's also spent time in Milwaukee, Chicago, and London, England, during his professional life which, for the past 25 years, has been in the finance industry; primarily in the hedge fund arena. He authored a book about the experience of managing billions of dollars in assets in the lead up to and during the pandemic, entitled Fed Up!: Success, Excess, & Crisis Through the Eyes of a Hedge Fund Macro Trader.
During our time together we trace Colin's hockey-loving roots to a January 2, 1972 Detroit Red Wings-Montreal Canadiensgame (a 6-4 Wings' victory) he attended with his father at Detroit's Olympia Arena. By our count, eight future Hockey Hall of Famers skated in this game and another, Scotty Bowman, was in his first year behind the bench in Montreal. Then, three months later, Colin returned to Olympia and saw the Wings lose, 5-4, to the Boston Bruins and three more HoFers. Once he began playing, Colin had the opportunity to play with and against future NHL standouts like Jimmy Carson, Mike Modano, and Craig Wolanin. With early hockey experiences like that, it's no wonder Colin later was part of a Milwaukee Admirals' ownership group.
Baseball also holds a special place in his heart partially due, no doubt, to his first in-person MLB game. It was July 3, 1976 at Detroit's Tiger Stadium when he saw eventual American League Rookie of the Year recipient, Mark Fidrych, toss a 4-hit shutout of the Baltimore Orioles. A decade later, in his dorm room at Princeton, one roommate was a Boston Red Sox fan and the other a New York Mets fan, Colin experienced Game 6 of the World Series with those two while the Mookie Wilson/Bill Buckner drama played out.
Along the way we also touch on a trip to Wimbledon, how he became a Leicester City FC fan, and his recollections from the night Hockey Hall of Famer Ted Lindsay came to dinner at the Lancaster House.
