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With NHL Draft on Hold, USHL Prospects Prepare in Waiting

Chicago Steel winger Sam Colangelo doesn’t have a pristine in-home gym or a trainer’s makeshift garage-turned-fitness-center. Cross off any hope for an indoor ice rink, like the one enjoyed by Marek Hejduk, son of 14-year NHL veteran Milan, too. But, he does have his parents restaurant, Local 438 Grille & Sport, less than 10 minutes away from his Stoneham, Mass., home.

“Some of the food boxes are super heavy,” the 18-year-old Colangelo says. “I think it was boxes of steak meat —I was doing farmer carries and shoulder shrugs with them. It was kind of funny.