A longtime NHL player, broadcaster, and coach has died.

On Friday, the Vancouver Canucks announced that former winger Brent Peterson died at age 68.

Peterson was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2002. Along with fighting the disease, he started the Peterson Foundation for Parkinson’s in 2009.

Peterson had a long pro career and spent a couple of seasons in British Columbia. The Calgary native joined the Canucks in the summer of 1985 and spent two years with the club. In 1985-86, he registered eight goals and 31 points, the third-best offensive output of his NHL career.  He helped Vancouver finish fourth in the Smythe Division, good enough for a spot in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. However, he and the Canucks were eliminated in the opening round by some guy named Wayne Gretzky and the Edmonton Oilers. Peterson managed to score twice in the three-game sweep.

In his two years with the Canucks, Peterson posted 15 goals and 38 assists for 53 points in 146 regular-season games.

His brief time in Vancouver isn’t all of Peterson’s experience in Western Canada. He spent two seasons with the Edmonton Oil Kings, before rounding out his junior career with the Portland Winter Hawks of the Western Hockey League, then known as the West Coast Hockey League, scoring 112 points with the Winter Hawks in 1976-77.

Across 11 NHL seasons, Peterson had stops with the Detroit Red Wings (the team that took him 12th overall in the 1978 NHL Draft), the Buffalo Sabres and the Hartford Whalers before retiring at the end of the 1988-89 season.

From there, Peterson got into coaching. After serving as an assistant coach with the Whalers for two years, he returned to Portland, where he was both an associate and head coach across seven campaigns, guiding the team to a Memorial Cup title in 1998. The following season, he moved stateside and joined the expansion Nashville Predators as an assistant. After 12 years behind the bench in Smashville, Peterson jumped in the booth, where he was part of the team’s broadcast crew for three years.

Peterson does have some international accolades to his name, as he was an assistant coach on Canada’s men’s national team at the 2001 IIHF Men’s World Championship.

Brent Peterson is survived by his wife, Tami, his children, Brad and Kristin, and his extended family.