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One Poor Choice Can Lead To A Lifetime Of Disappointment
by Paul on 03/26/09 at 07:23 AM ET
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from Jeff Gerritt of the Detroit Free Press,
Thirty-six seems too young to let a dream die. But after serving 14 years in prison for unarmed robbery, Mike Chegwidden, who might have become one of the Upper Peninsula’s greatest hockey players, knows he must let one go and find another.
He can still blaze most players 10 years younger. But in hockey as in hoops, 36 is way past prime time. Chegwidden knows he will never play in the NHL, or even semi-pro. He lost that ice dream when he was 16.
“I threw my life away,” Chegwidden told me at the ICE Arena in Mt. Pleasant, where he plays drop-in hockey once a week. Paroled on Jan. 13, he looks for work while living with his mother, Gerry Cote, and stepfather, John Cote, in nearby Clare County.
“I could have played a game for a living,” he said. “All it takes is one poor choice.”
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