If you do not feel a great welling of emotion with the story of St. Louis Blues forward Pat Maroon, you must be dead inside or have a personal vendetta against him or one of his family members. The way his ups and downs have mirrored the team and even how his journey brought him to St. Louis in the first place is a made-for-TV movie of the week.
The fact that Maroon made it to the NHL is a great story in and of itself. Maroon had talent in spades, but his size gave him an early advantage that was almost his undoing.