Mitchell Interviewed

Another Ben Kuzma article today.. This time, about Willie Mitchell. Snippets below:

Mitchell was a winger in minor hockey ... Mitchell's coach thought otherwise and the winger became a blueliner the following year.

''Truth be told, I took a lot of figure skating when I was a kid and my sister took it, too,'' said Mitchell. ''I never did the drills or the figure-8s, but I was always a good backwards skater and that's why I switched over.''
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''Yeah, five or six years against Nazzy and that line and he's probably sick of seeing me and I'm sick of seeing him,'' chuckled Mitchell. ''But he's very intelligent and a guy like that you look to get him the puck as much as possible.

I guess you don't need to like your teammates to be able to play with them.