Like so many of the youngsters chosen in the annual NHL draft, Jaret Anderson-Dolan watched his parents skate and he took to the ice on a pair of double-runners before he was 2 years old. Like many of those kids, he developed a terrific shot by rifling the puck hundreds of times a day at the rink or in his Calgary backyard, to the detriment of the nearby houses.
Unlike those other kids, he and his older brother were raised by two moms, Fran and Nancy Anderson-Dolan. He told the Spokane (Wash.) Statesman-Review that when he was eligible for the Western Hockey League’s bantam draft, some teams let him know they’d pass on him because of his two moms.