Swiss Legend By Way Of Carman

Swiss hockey legend Patrick Fischer was once a foreign exchange student at Carman Collegiate in Manitoba back in 1991-92.

Switzerland hockey legend Patrick Fischer was once an exchange student at Carman Collegiate in the early 1990s.

Fischer was born and raised in Zug, a Swiss city of 30,000 people in the middle of the country where German is the primary language. He started playing hockey for the EV Zug program and went on to spend much of his hockey career there in his hometown.

In the early 1990s, Fischer’s father went to work for an American company in Tennessee, so the family temporarily moved to the United States.