Raise-a-Reader: Canuck Troy Stecher’s love of reading a gift from parents

Vancouver Canucks defenceman Troy Stecher credits his parents’ love of reading for his own daily reading habits — and among the books his mother read to him at bedtime was a series called Brady Brady, because it was all about hockey.
The books, including Brady Brady and the Great Rink and Brady Brady and the Puck on the Pond, were written by an Ottawa-area mother who wrote them to encourage her hockey-obsessed son to read.
“It’s a routine we had together, it was a nice th