The Dallas Stars' 4-3 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning was especially sweet on Brenden Morrow Night – marking as it did the retirement of one of the Stars' greatest players, in Victory Green no less, in the presence of the team he helped take to the 2015 Stanley Cup finals.
So you might be forgiven if you missed the essay Morrow shared yesterday at The Players' Tribune, posted right around the time the Stars were holding his press conference. He writes about mistakes on and off the ice, and learning not to repeat them, beginning with the figure-skating lessons he began at age four and continuing into his first foray into junior hockey, at 16 years old and 230 pounds:
When I went to Portland for my first year of juniors, the trainer, Innes Mackie, put me on the scale.