Farhan Devji: Passion for puck, pen and paper

Student’s love of writing takes him from Canucks games to j-school

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Farhan Devji, a first-year journalism student, combines his love of hockey and writing as a sports journalist (C.J. Roussakis)

Farhan Devji has always been a hockey fan and a hockey player, but when he realized he wasn’t going to make it to the NHL, he switched his passion to writing.

Although the first-year journalism student from Vancouver didn’t start writing about hockey until a few years ago, he has already written for several hockey websites and has published a novel.

“I love writing and I love hockey . . . I guess writing about hockey is a way for me to combine my two passions,” he says.

He began by writing editorial pieces on the Vancouver Canucks for insidehockey.com. In Grade 11, in his last year of Midget B hockey, he started writing for his school paper. The year after, he became the paper’s sports editor.

Devji says one of the hardest things to do when he was starting out was finding credible places to write online. After e-mailing several people about writing opportunities, he came across InsideHockey.

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