Story #1: A Heartwarming Tale from a Frozen Land
The entire Blackhawks team forgoes a trip home around Thanksgiving while in the middle of a road trip, in order to go with their GM Dale Tallon to northern Ontario for the funeral of his father. Pretty nice show of solidarity by the only blue-collar professional athletes left, and they should be commended even more for their willingness to spend more time in Ontario (although at least they got out of Toronto).
Story #2: Living the “Rink of Dreams”
Due to an injury to Jose Theodore and transportation problems with a goalie being called up from the farm team, the Washington Capitals were left without a backup goalie at the start of their game against Ottawa. So they got web producer Brett Leonhardt to put on the pads, and he got to dress as the backup goalie for 1/3 of a game (the AHL goalie showed up halfway through the first period), taking warm-ups on the ice and everything. Is he the Moonlight Graham of hockey? “Now, if I’d only got to be a web producer for 10 minutes, that’d have been the real tragedy.”
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