Link Gaetz was a former up and coming hockey enforcer who's NHL career was brutally cut short in 1992 when he was thrown from a Camero traveling at 80/mph. He would go on to never play another NHL game after suffering brain stem injuries and losing 50% of his movements on the left side of his body. He morphed into a minor league lifer. Over the years he has had problems with drugs, alcohol and the law; To say the least, his reputation of being the meanest hockey player to ever live has followed him to every city he has played in. Link had played for over 24 teams during the rest of his career ranging from Anchorage to Mexico City and almost everywhere in between, before hanging up the skates in 2007. After playing his final season with the St. John Scorpions, Link went virtually missing. After finally tracking him down, Link has agreed to participate in a documentary film about his life and career. This is a blog to track the development and production of the upcoming documentary film "The Missing Link" about former hockey enforcer Link Gaetz.

NEWS FLASH !

Well, the pre production of the project continues as we’re moving to the next step in the production: finding a producer. To this point I have been doing all the work in trying to lift this film off the ground and get my story onto the screen. I am in search of a producer, someone who can finance or find financing for my film and help me to take this project to the next level. In the meantime though, my plan is to create a 10-15 minute sample version of the film to attach to the proposal and send around to various producers. I’m hoping to shoot the sample within the next 3 months. It really depends on Link’s availability and my crews availability, but I think we should be able to get it done within that time frame.

In other news…

We’re getting some love from Quebec… I recently got an email from a reporter who will be doing a story on my film for the newspaper “Le Soleil” in Quebec City. The reporter had been following Link when he played in the LNAH a few years back. I’m pretty excited for the story. I’ll post the story/interview when it is completed.

I’m not sure if anyone has been reading “The Hockey News” lately but we got mentioned in the “Greatest Jerseys Of All Time” collectors issue. There was a small story about Link on page 157 and it also mentions the film which is pretty cool.

So that is basically where I’m at now. Trying to find a producer and making a demo of the film in the meantime. Should be a pretty good next few months doing a little bit of shooting and hopefully attracting someone to help me lift this project off the ground.

Keep posted here for the latest,

-James de Boer