If this hockey thing doesn’t work out, Dan Hamhuis can always open a Jamba Juice.
He already owns a commercial-grade blender, which he has learned to operate the way Yo-Yo Ma operates a cello.
Hamhuis’s pureeing peak performance came at Christmas when the injured Vancouver Canucks defenceman blended an entire turkey dinner that could be poured through the wires holding shut his broken jaw.
“I had turkey, cranberries, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, creamed spinach and gravy,” Hamhuis explained. “Each one was in a different coffee cup in front of me.”
A hearty liquid diet, including dozens of soups provided him by friend and celebrity chef David Hawksworth, sustained Hamhuis when the 33-year-old was unable to eat solid food after his mouth was shattered by New York Ranger Dan Boyle’s slapshot during a Dec.