D2uesday: Catching Up With Ken Wu, Julie Gaffney, Russ Tyler and Jesse Hall
In 1994, one of the greatest upsets in sporting history occurred on U.S. soil. It was then that a ragtag group of kids from the Minnesota suburbs joined up with a collection of “talent” from around the country to participate in the Junior Goodwill Games. There they somehow managed to defeat a loaded Iceland team that saw seven (!) players make it to the NHL.
That was fifteen years ago. Unbelievable.
The question remains; what have the USA Ducks been up to since then? A lesser blogger might have just done a quick Google search to see what the team had been doing since they left Eden Hall Academy, but not this man. I crisscrossed the country in hopes of interviewing the whole gang.
The first three installments caught up with Coach Bombay, Averman, Luis Mendoza, Charlie Conway, and The Bash Brothers; this one with Ken Wu, Julie “The Cat” Gaffney, Russ Tyler and Jesse Hall.
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