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Gabe Gauthier Living A Dream
by Paul on 03/22/07 at 06:41 AM ET
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from the OC Register,
Gauthier, 23, is hope on skates, inspiration in pads. Which is just what the playoff-eliminated Kings need now, even if it’s from a native Southern Californian with 12 days of NHL experience.
His Canadian-born father, Gerald, put skates on Gabe at age 4 and signed him up for a youth team at the Norwalk Ice Arena. Next, father and son were Kings season-ticket holders with Forum seats perched over the shoulder of goalie Kelly Hrudey and devotion for Wayne Gretzky, Luc Robitaille and a 1993 Stanley Cup Finals team.
Parents Gerald and Pam Gauthier watched him zip around driveway in Rollerblades firing shots and yelling “Gabe Gauthier shoots and scores!”
They woke mornings to the sound of Gabe interviewing himself, toothbrush as a microphone, in front of the bathroom mirror about his winning goal.
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