"In any manner of workplace situation imaginable — bank, auto-body dealership, newsroom, neighbourhood bakery, NHL inner sanctum — it's immensely rare to find someone, anyone, who transcends all petty jealousies and personal agendas; who doesn't irk this person or alienate that one.

Who is universally liked.

Brendan Morrison is such a someone.

"Oh yeah, he was very popular in our room,'' said captain Jarome Iginla, the morning before Morrison's return to the Scotiabank Saddledome as a Chicago Blackhawk. "He gets along with everybody."