Full name: Joseph Steve Sakic
Eyes: green
Hair: dark brown
Height: 180 cm (5' 11)
Weight: 84 kg (185 lbs.)
Born: 7/7/69 in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Parents: Marijan (carpenter) and Slavica (ensembeled electronic parts), both
emigrated from Croatia in the age of 17
Siblings: Brian (hockey player, born 4/9/71) and Rosemarie (ex- figure skater coach
nowadays, current last name Sakic- Friel)
Other family: Joe met his wife Debbie when Joe was 17 and Debbie 16 they went to
high school together, they have 3 kids Mitchell (born 4/10/96) and mixed twins Kamryn and Chase (born 14/10/00)
Current residence: Littleton, a town outside Denver
1st car: White Pontiac Firebird '81
Favorite food: lambchops and spaghetti
drink: 7 UP
ice- cream flavour: strawberry
music: country (Garth Brooks) Joe doesn't like rap, but everything else
goes
tv- program: Cheers, Seinfeld
movie: Caddyshack
writer: Sidney Sheldon
Friends in NHL: Ron Tugnutt (Dallas Stars) , Curtis Leschyshyn
(Ottawa Senators)
Nicknames: Super Joe, Burnaby Joe, Quoteless Joe
Other stuff:
- Joe's a partial owner of italian restaurant Santino's
- He used to own a little part of a hockey team called Calgary Hitmen, other co-ownes
included wrestler Brett "The Hitman" Hart and NHL:ler Theo Fleury
- Hates the bobblehead made of him, says it doesn't look like him (I agree)
- Likes baseball, favorite team is Seattle Mariners and favorite player is Ichiro
- Also likes european football, favorite player Davor Suker of Croatia and Joe
owns his jersey too
- Was in a bus crash 30/12/87, Joe survived, but some of his team mates didn't.
He says that after that accident he started to drive more carefully
- Joe likes to watch women's tennis "The action and the volleys"
- Players he likes to watch: Mario Lemieux, Sergei Fedorov, Wayne Gretzky, Michael
Jordan, Monica Seles
- Joe and his wife do charity with Food Bank Of The Rockies. Joe hosts Joe Sakic
Celebrity Classic annually
- Joe's boyhood idol was Wayne Gretzky
- On road Joe's roommate is Alex Tanguay whose boyhood idol was, who else, Joe
Sakic
