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Jay first sees Trent Play in PeeWees.
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Jay narrates about starting insurance business in 19902
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Intent on playing hockey, Trent goes to school at Finlandia
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Trent gives up on college hockey enrolls in Mich Tech
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Jay calls coach tries to get Trent on Mich Tech team
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Trent prepares to graduate. Jay calls Trent asks if he would consider going pro if he had the chance. Spring 2007
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Intro to get reader into story: Jay calls Red Wings gets a tryout
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Jay goes after the “biggest big guy (he) ever heard of, Kenny Hollands.” Gets tryout contract with Generals. Jay lends Trent his car.
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Trent’s first Flint Generals game. ’Your best freakin’ player is sitting in the stands’ Jay is in watching in stands.
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Trent gets in lineup 2nd game based on what Jay told the owners about him. Trent plays only a few minutes at end of game. Gets a scoring chance.
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Coach cuts Trent. But offers Trent a chance to try out next fall.
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Jay gets call from Pete South General Manager of Flint Generals two weeks before tryouts. The Red Wings are “loaded this year.
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NEHL has new team Cooper City Chiefs of Rome New York. Trent could tryout there
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Pete South connects Jay with Chiefs coach, Mike Beavis Jay calls Bea
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Jay calls Trent, tells of bad news with Generals, and makes plan to fly Trent going to fly him out to Rome, NY for training camp.
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Mike Beavis calls Jay tells him the owner is folding team, the entire NEHL folds.
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Low point of Trent and Jay’s quest.Trent and Jay exhausted by the ups and downs.
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In dismay, dejected. Jays calls friend Tim, Who has an in with Bob Macnamara Grand Rapid Griffins, General Manager.
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Grand Rapid Griffins Pete South in the stadium “Who’s that #7” Bruce McNamara gets tryout with Bruce Ramsey in Muskegon.
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Bruce Ramsey looks at him for 3 days. Cuts
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Jay lines up tryout with Ft. Huron. They cut him. Try out Bloomington January 2008. Bloomington cuts him.
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Call with Nick Bootlin. Kalamazoo.
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Trent with Kalamazoo playing Flint Generals. Battaglia Second line center for kalamazoo gets knocked out of game. Jay sitting behind the bench. “play him." Trent into game. Trent scores a goal. Sets up tying goal.
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Trent with Kalamazoo playing Flint Generals. Battaglia Second line center for kalamazoo gets knocked out of game. Jay sitting behind the bench. “play him." Trent into game. Trent scores a goal. Sets up tying goal.
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Jay gets Trent a trainer
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Jay sees Trent. Trent looks a lot different, has bulked up.
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Jay starts calling NHL team, since he scored 18 points in 20 games. Trent gets invited to NY Rangers rookie training camp. This gets Bootlin's attention. NY Ranger - we'll campout eat peanut butter slammers.
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John Tortilla “hard-ass” coach. Trent works so hard he nearly kills himself during tryouts.
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Kalamazoo Wings (ECHL) where he stays plays 15 games, gets called up by Adirondack Phantoms (Philly Flyer AHL farm team)
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Calls Bob McNamara (Griffins) Why aren’t playing him plays 2 games on the 4th line. Gets 1 point, goal.
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K Wings First line Center forward. Leads to the second round of the finals
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Trent’s wife announces her pregnancy. A wedding is planned.
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Preparing for 2011-12 season, Trent’s hockey life now includes a famil
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Trent and family moving around North America. Kalamazoo, Mi; Glenn Falls, NY; Grand Rapids, MI; Newfoundland, CA; Chicago, ILL; Cleveland, OH; Loveland, CO.
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begins 4 years with Colorado, Eagles. Trent is captain of the team 2014-2016 under coach Chris Stewart.
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Trent’s wife becomes pregnant with third child.
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Trent decides to hang-up his skates, pursue career as structural engineer. Heads back to Howell with family.
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Trent and family move home to Howell, settles in.
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Jay receives a letter from Tampa Bay Lighting. All are thrilled, but Trent is satisfied with his hockey career, and sticks to his plan to raise family in Howell.
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Trent and Jay watching their kids playing hockey on the pond in Trent’s Backyard