There are two ways to start this entry, and I’m going with them both:
1. About ten minutes into Grand Rapids Griffins assistant coach Jim Paek’s drills with the “afternoon group,” which happened to be “Team Lidstrom,” I was taken back to my childhood by a torrent of f-bombs so loud, so sharply spoken and so eloquently used as nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and even prepositions and articles that I thought it was my father speaking (and dad was a probation officer in Detroit in the 70’s and 80’s with a veritable Jedi knightship in cursing). It would turn out that Brian Lashoff had later told me that the players were a bit tired from some serious dry-land training earlier in the day, but that they needed to be brought to attention, and as such, it was good that what was said was said.
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July 10, 2012
