David Booth is somehow still playing and now the ex-Vancouver Canucks player is headed to Australia
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If you find yourself on the other side of the world wondering if you can watch a former Vancouver Canucks forward in action, you just might be in luck.
Former Vancouver player David Booth is joining the Australian Ice Hockey League’s Melbourne Ice at the age of 40, with their season already underway.
“We can’t wait to see what he brings to the ice this season — welcome to Melbourne, David!” shares an Instagram post from the team announcing the news.
Booth played 134 games with the Canucks from 2011-2014 after coming over from the Florida Panthers in a trade.
He also spent time in the NHL with the Toronto Maple Leafs in 2014-15 and the Detroit Red Wings in 2016-17, taking a two-year run in between with a pair of Russian-based KHL teams.
But Booth’s foray to the land down under is far from his first foreign expedition.
Since his last NHL game with the Red Wings in 2018, Booth has now played for seven teams across five countries, four of which are in Europe.
Belarus’ Dinamo Minsk of the KHL, Manglerud, Vålerenga, and Storhamar in Norway, the Jackson Hole Moose of the U.S.-based Black Diamond Hockey League, Eisbären Regensburg in the German second division, and Ferencvárosi TC in Hungary.
For the headlines that Booth has found himself in over the years, perhaps we shouldn’t be too surprised that he’s become a world traveller.
Ex-teammate Kevin Bieksa once described Booth as a “bizarre guy” when sharing an anecdote about him one night on Hockey Night in Canada.
“One meeting that we had in Buffalo, [Booth] wasn’t there. So we’re calling him, and we were like ‘Boother, we’re having a meeting now, where are you?’” Bieksa recounted on a 2023 Sportsnet broadcast. “He goes, ‘I’m in Ohio, hunting white tail deer.’ He was in Ohio, he was a state over, and he was in a tree, hunting deer. Just a bizarre guy. Punctuality was not his priority.”
In 2018, Booth raised eyebrows for his widely panned take on a Nike ad featuring former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, where he compared a tagline from the ad to the September 11 terrorist attacks.
“‘Believe in something even if it means sacrificing everything’ does this mean you can fly a plane into a building? How can so many people @Nike be this ignorant as to the logical fallacy this entails. This is absolute [sic] absurd. I really don’t understand. Why would u support this?” Booth tweeted.
We don’t know exactly what the next David Booth headline we’ll see is, but given his track record, we doubt it’ll be boring, at the very least.
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