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Still Grinding After All These Years

By Eric Adelson

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

The cow's name was Liz, and Liz was 1,500 pounds of grouch, and every morning on the frigid Alberta plain Shane Doan had to milk her. He was 12 then, two decades before this, the bittersweet twilight of his hockey career. But in a way, Doan's mornings with Liz would be a parable for his NHL nights. Because Liz kicked Shane. A lot. The boy didn't like it or deserve it, but it kept happening. And Shane always shook it off. He winced and grimaced and kept doing his job, because he'd rather Liz ki ...

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