TRAVERSE CITY - Keith Petruzzelli has been getting asked the same thing for years.
"Do you play basketball?"
It's an obvious question given Petruzzelli is 18 years old, stands almost 6-foot-6 and is a stereotypical string bean at 185 pounds. He looks like a basketball player.
He isn't, of course, after being selected by the Detroit Red Wings in last month's NHL draft. But has basketball ever been a part of his past?
"No," Petruzzelli said with a laugh last week during the Red Wings development camp at Centre Ice Arena. "I could never put the basketball in.