Numbers and dates. We all have those we celebrate, be it birthdays or holidays or anniversaries. For Jordin Tootoo, Dec. 19, 2010 will always hold a special place.
On that day Tootoo stopped drinking and, as he tweeted on Monday, he “was gifted a new life.” Now happy and healthy, a married man with a 7 ½-month-old daughter, Tootoo, who signed with the Blackhawks last summer, is grateful and humbled at how he’s turned his life around.
“Well, it’s obviously a huge accomplishment,” Tootoo said earlier this week. “The first few years are pretty tough. But when you have a great support system, by that I mean the guys in the dressing room respecting your personal decision to go that route, it always makes you feel a lot more comfortable around the guys.