Alan Kurdi and Kirk McLean

Louis Blues: Just a few months ago, Shergo was working in a clothing factory in Turkey to help support his family after they fled the war in Syria, according to CTV. On Saturday, he met his goalie idol Kirk McLean and watched the St. The 15-year-old is the cousin of Alan Kurdi, the two-year-old boy who became a symbol of the Syrian refugee crisis when his lifeless body was photographed on a Turkish beach last September. Louis Blues practice at Rogers Arena. "My team is Canucks, and I like to play goalie," said Shergo, clad in a Vancouver Canucks jersey and clutching a signed photograph of McLean. As Shergo sat in the stands with his father Mohammad Kurdi and brothers and sisters, the moment couldn't have been more different from his old life. The grinning teenager was one of 13 refugee youth who toured the arena as part of an event arranged by non-profit organization S.U.C.C.E.S.S. and the Vancouver Canucks, with help from a federal government grant, to introduce newly-arrived Syrians to Canadian culture through hockey. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.