Detroit — Neither leg of Saturday’s doubleheader at Little Caesars Arena ended the way they wanted it to, but for the Joshua family, that’ll never take away from a “once-in-a-lifetime” type of day.
On the same day that Vancouver Canucks forward and Dearborn native Dakota Joshua played his first NHL game in Detroit, his younger brother, Jagger, was playing for the Michigan State Spartans in the nightcap’s “Duel in the D."
“It was probably about six months ago when Dakota just signed with Vancouver, so it was just a crazy coincidence,” said Jullee Joshua, who introduced her sons to the game through her involvement in the Metro Senior Women’s Hockey League in Detroit, which she still plays in.