Chelios overcomes odds to make Hall

Chris Chelios never expected to make it to the NHL, let alone into the Hockey Hall of Fame. There is no reason in the world that I should have made it as a hockey player, Chelios told me a few years ago. I grew up in Chicago on the south side, and no one else had ever made it in the NHL from that area in Chicago because theres not a lot of money there. I moved to California when I was 16. I had no intention of playing pro hockey or even continuing with hockey, I was just skating for fun. And then fate intervened. I was sitting on the beach watching these guys on a hockey team working out, Chelios recalled. One of the kids came up to me who had seen me skate and said he knew of a place he thought I could play in Canada. The rest is history. A history culminating with Chelios being named a first-ballot inductee into the Hockey Hall of Fame on Tuesday afternoon in Toronto. Chelios, 51, is the greatest American-born defenseman to ever play the game. Arguably, hes the greatest Ame...