What is so cool is the grandma and grandpa angle. This kid/man has such cool humble beginnings. I think he was smart to leave the game before it destroyed him. Life is too short and he has more than made enough to last many lifetimes.
Beautiful story......when he was with the hawks i knew he was gonna be great, now hes a jet, thats my team ....for life, being from wpg, we lost our team , but now were back, still cant believe it, hes the best.
I’m from Rockford IL and watched Dustin play as a icehog when I was a kid and obviously am a huge black hawks fan This brought back so many memories ! I’ll forever remember this man ! Much love to him and his fam
Byfuglien is that one player that always amazed me, and it was brilliant that Chicago used him as a centre for a while. Good to see that he's still playing too.
I used to play traveling ice hockey against Dustin's first-cousins back in the 80s. We never defeated Roseau once. The Rams were a dynamo, up and down the age brackets, from Squirt to Varsity Level. I remember staying at legendary Coach Dick Johnson's place, whom I'm sure Dustin had as a coach. He was nice to us, but to hear him scream during the game and the watch the results those kids gave him. Man! they were damn good. What a wonderful biography of Roseau and one of the Byfulgliens.
I'm a Chicago fan, not as much now since they got rid of buff, and I still have a few players that I like, hosa, Shaw, number 4, I can't even begin to spell his name, jammerson... Something like that, but my all time favorite was, is and always will be big buff... I'd follow him no matter who he played for...my man and such a gentle giant...hats off to you Dustin, and best wishes for no matter what you do...
He probably woulda been a good pro defensive lineman if he'd taken that route, but there's no better place to grow up if you wanna be a hockey player than Roseau MN. With Grandma workin to next to the ice rink at a place where she could make him sandwiches? Damn, that's livin the dream!
I was a big fan of Buff's before I had the honor of playing drums at his wedding party in Minneapolis. Great guy, great family. An integral part of the 2010 Cup Champs. All was amazing that night until the rap-off between Kris Versteeg and Blake Wheeler, when #26 dropped one of our 1500.00 microphones like it was hot.
Lawrence, you and I can be honest, just how disappointed are you in your daughter? You can be honest, you know you are. Its ok to feel as though she destroyed generations of your family tree. She really did, its sad. I'm sure it took you a very long time to accept that your daughter was a piece of garbage.
