Stephen Johns is a big guy from a tiny town who's worked his way from local teams to Notre Dame to stints in the AHL with the Rockford Ice Hogs and the Texas Stars. And now the former Chicago Blackhawks second-rounder is with the Dallas Stars, ready to play a second game against the team that drafted him and follow his new squad into the Stanley Cup playoffs.
No one is more thrilled about this turn of events than Johns' friends and family back home, who are an important part of his personal support system, he tells Heika:
Hailing from Wampum (pop.