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PROFILE Bruni scores with Hockey Canada Calgary lawyer takes on top spot as sporting body faces tough issues around concussions and fighting. By Vawn Himmelsbach For anyone who loves Canada's national sport, it's a dream job, and for Michael Bruni, the newly appointed chairman of Hockey Canada, it's possibly the best sports-related job in Canada, or even the world. "It's a privilege, and I take it as a privilege," he says. "And it's a real challenge, too." But challenge, it seems, is what drives Bruni. Having spent much of his career in the oil and gas industry, he attributes his career success to a long history of volun- teering. "One thing that has contributed to my experience and abilities more than anything — even my workplace — has been my volunteer life, without question," he says. Based in Calgary, Bruni started volunteering with minor hockey asso- ciations, working his way up through the provincial scene to head Hockey Alberta, to eventually become vice chairman at large and executive vice chairman of Hockey Canada. He was named chair- man of the board in June 2011. Hockey Canada is the national body that oversees pretty much anything hockey-related in the country. It over- sees minor and Junior A hockey, and its membership includes 13 provincial sports organizations. It's also a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation, The tipping point has arrived and pushed us to a crisis with concussions and injuries in the game. We have the ability and, quite frankly, the obligation to engage attitudinal change." Michael Bruni, HOCKEY CANADA INHOUSE FEBRUARY 2012 • 35