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Change Of Heart

By Gare Joyce

Thursday, December 4, 2008

"I have to know." It was a Christmas phone call in 2003 that Sylvain Pouliot desperately didn't want to make. Sylvain had coached dozens of teams in the village of St. Isidore, an hour's drive from Ottawa on the way to Montreal. He knew a call from a parent was the last thing a team executive wanted. Sylvain had cut the sons of neighbors, the best friends of his own sons. He hated asking for personal favors. But now he was talking to Oscar Clouthier, a friend and assistant general manager fo ...

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