Why Ian Cole is a 'really good match' with the Blackhawks
Ian Cole helped create Landon Slaggert's earliest hockey memory.The new Blackhawks defenseman, now 37, was a 19-year-old freshman when Notre Dame made a dramatic run through the 2008 NCAA tournament to the national championship game, which they lost to Boston College.Slaggert, now 24, was a six-year-old kid at the time, scrambling around the locker room while his dad Andy, an assistant coach, did his job. To him, those Fighting Irish players were his "superheroes." Cole remembers Slaggert as an…
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