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Madden Has Always Carried A Chip On His Shoulder
by Paul on 09/21/10 at 07:25 AM ET
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from Kent Youngblood of the Star Tribune,
He’s been asked to tell the story so many times that at first you get a little roll of the eyes.
But it’s there, a movie-of-the-week tale that begins in Toronto’s poverty-stricken Parma Court housing projects 37 years ago.
John Madden, who has joined the Wild—coming to Minnesota with three Stanley Cup championships in his past—will tell you that a difficult childhood and a life spent proving that a 5-11, 190-pounder has a place in the NHL will give you an edge. It’s just that he doesn’t want to make too big a deal of it.
“It’s true,” said Madden, whose parents had divorced by the time he was 10, when asked about learning hockey on a flooded basketball court, about looking out for himself while his mom worked two jobs, about how he had to carry his bag onto the bus, and then the Toronto subway, just to get to games when he was 12.
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