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A Look At Ken Holland
by Paul on 05/07/09 at 11:23 AM ET
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from Shawn Windsor of the Detroit Free Press,
It is, he said, “an unreal life. A dream life. I can remember when I was 12, 13, 14, we had this garage. I don’t know what you call it—you drive in, it had pillars.”
A carport?
“Yeah, a carport. And it was yellow. I would sit out there by the hours. I had 10-15 tennis balls, just slapping them. My mom would scream from the window because every time I missed the net, there was the tennis ball mark.
“My mom would go out—probably she should’ve sent me to clean it—but my mom was an eager beaver. She loved to clean. She’d be wiping down all these tennis ball marks. Next day I’m out there pounding tennis balls, and I’m pretending I’m this one ... I’m that one, and all of sudden you wake up one day and you’ve spent your whole career in hockey.”
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and I’m pretending I’m this one ... I’m that one, and all of sudden you wake up one day and you’ve spent your whole career in hockey
He’s spending too much time with Babblecock.... what did he say?
Posted by MarkK from Maryland on 05/07/09 at 10:57 AM ET
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I spent hours and hours on the driveway, practicing my slapshot. There are tons of dents in my parent’s garage door. It got so bad, they eventually asked me to open the garage door, which of course just lead to tons of holes in the back wall of the garage.
Good times.
Posted by Ryan from Toronto on 05/07/09 at 10:46 AM ET