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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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