bacon blog: Improbably, Shawn Hunwick comes up huge for Michigan hockey team
Posted on Fri, Mar 26, 2010 : 3:42 p.m.
If Hollywood ever gets around to making hockey's version of Rudy, directors might find their script at the University of Michigan.
There's been no better story this season than that of U-M goalie Shawn Hunwick.
At 5-foot-6, he's toiled on the bench as a practice goalie for three seasons. In his first-ever start, he got pummeled.
John U. Bacon has the story of what came next, of Hunwick's logic-defying ascension and how it impacted the Michigan hockey team.
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