TJ Oshie moved back to Minnesota after retiring from the NHL in June. His late father developed Alzheimer's and stopped paying for a storage unit in northern Minnesota. The unpaid unit was sold to someone through a storage auction. The buyer demanded a large sum to return the contents even though the items were childhood memorabilia with little monetary value. Oshie initially told the buyer to keep and sell the items if desired. A Warroad community member later tracked down the storage buyer, paid to retrieve the belongings, and surprised Oshie with the returned medals and team pictures at a tournament.
TJ Oshie: I haven't dug too deep into the memorabilia stuff. Actually, last summer, which technically was right after I played my last game, I went through - my teammates, high school teammates up in Warroad, there was this big debacle. My dad had Alzheimer's, forgot a lot of things. He forgot that he had a storage unit up in northern Minnesota and just stopped paying for it. And, you know, 'Storage Wars,' someone got it.
They tried to ask me to buy it back for, like, I think the number was 16 grand or something. I was like, 'Dude, it's just my childhood things.' There's no (value) - it's all high school and before, so not World Juniors, none of that stuff, right? And he wouldn't give it back, wouldn't give it back. And finally, I was like, 'Alright, just keep it. Like, peace off and sell it if you want.'
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