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Winnipeg Jets alumni team member Brian Mullen gets his slapper back into shape Friday at the MTS Centre.
The five seasons he spent in Winnipeg are half a lifetime away now, but Brian Mullen has vivid recollections of his start in the NHL.
In 1982, fresh from two seasons at the University of Wisconsin, a 20-year-old Mullen gravitated to a pair of other young guns on the Jets — 19-year-old Dale Hawerchuk and Scott Arniel, 20.
"We kind of bonded, lived together at Dale’s place (in Tuxedo)," said the 54-year-old Mullen, who will play for the Jets squad in today’s Heritage Classic alumni game against the Edmonton Oilers at Investors Group Field.