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Hellebuyck Nearly Bailed After High School
Connor Hellebuyck, the Jets' Vezina machine and Team USA's Olympic rock, carved his path from Walled Lake Northern's losing locker room in Michigan, where he posted a 93% save clip on a 6-16-1 squad that screamed obscurity. Everyone in those Michigan rinks knows the AAA kids dominate the pipeline, yet this high school grinder bypassed the hype, hit NAHL Odessa, dominated UMass Lowell for the first Mike Richter, and fifth-rounded his way to NHL stardom.
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