now 22-year-old was paying his dues off the ice filling in as the team's mascot for a night."He had come to the game as most local boys do and they ask if they can get extra tickets," Bonner recalled. "He had phoned at the time and asked if he could get some tickets, when he got there (Giants VP of Business Development) Dale Saip was in a pinch and needed someone to help him out. Milan being a nice kid couldn't say no did it for half a period."Lucic laughs about the story now."I remember that particular game … me and my buddy were at the game," he said. "Then two months later, I was playing with the team in the playoffs versus Kelowna that year."During Lucic's first full season with the Giants, 2005-06, his uncle, and former Vancouver Canuck, Dan Kesa, was an assistant coach with the WHL club. Bonner remembers Kesa developing a plan for his nephew."His uncle gave him directives for who to set the tone with," said Bonner. "Milan was real physical, fought a lot that first season so that he could establish a reputation so that the next year he'd be able to play a little more."I think when you look at his plan, he followed it perfectly: he went to the 2006 Memorial Cup, found out who the toughest guys were in Moncton, fought them all. The next year he came back, he didn't have to have as many fights, but put up 30 goals, had a great Memorial Cup tournament."Following the 2006 Memorial Cup, the Boston Bruins used their second-round pick (No. 50) to select Lucic at the NHL Entry Draft, which ironically, was held in Vancouver.The next season, Lucic picked up 30 goals, 68 points in 72 regular season games with the Giants to go along with his 147 penalty minutes. He added 19 points in 22 playoff games and was named the 2007 Memorial Cup MVP.He was named the team's captain heading into the 2007-08 WHL season, but never made it back from the Bruins training camp -- making Boston's line up as a 19-year-old.Lucic says he still draws on the Memorial Cup experience today while playing in the Stanley Cup Playoffs."It's such a hard trophy to win and it's such a hard battle to go through. Doing what we did there in Vancouver in going to the finals twice, the Memorial Cup tournament twice, and obviously the second one went our way," Lucic said. "You learned a lot about how to win and what it takes to win. Even though it is only the junior level, it's not the NHL level, but still you learn a lot about what needs to be done to win. You can't overlook how Don Hay prepared us for things like that."The East Vancouver native, who grew playing his minor hockey next door to the Pacific Coliseum where the Canucks played for a number of years, was a Canucks fan growing up and fondly remembers the 1994 run to the Stanley Cup