DETROIT – A 4-year-old Dennis Cholowski watched on TV when Nicklas Lidstrom’s shot from center ice eluded Dan Cloutier and changed the course of the 2002 first-round playoff series between the Detroit Red Wings and Vancouver.
“Of course, I remember that,” Cholowski said more than 17 years later. “Cloutier had a hole in his glove or something.”
Holy sh*t. He was FOUR?!??
I feel old.
“Big wake-up call, eye-opener, however you want to call it. It was tough, but I think it only made me better and stronger.