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Babcock recalls his 'wild' northern childhood
Published: 25 June 2009
By Ann Jacobs Mooney
DetroitRedWings.com
The first nine years of Mike Babcock’s childhood were perhaps
the only years of his life when hockey didn’t play a part.
“Where I was, I had skated but we didn’t have a hockey rink. I
lived in the Northwest Territory and there was no hockey. There was
curling in our town,” commented the Red Wings’ coach.
Babcock was born in 1963 in Manitouwadge, Ontario, but his family
moved up to the Northwest Territory when he was about three.
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