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West Side Story

By Bryant Urstadt

Monday, December 8, 2008

It's something of a miracle that Danny Genovese has made the 2,500-mile journey from inner-city New York to an elite junior hockey team in Chilliwack, British Columbia. It certainly wasn't supposed to happen that way. Danny could have turned out like some of his friends from the projects, dead or in jail, or like his father, a sweet man who never overcame a heroin problem. But the 20-year-old definitely wasn't supposed to be shoring up the blue line for the Chilliwack Chiefs, nailing perfect b ...

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