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Jad Abumrad

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I would have gotten education for free.

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And, you know, I'd play hockey with the guys on the weekends.

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But that would be the end of hockey.

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But then a couple of things happened.

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He met Danielle.

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They were both engineering students, started dating senior year.

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And the other thing that happened was... I got this opportunity to go play for the Houston Arrows, Minnesota's farm team.

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A minor league team.

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It wasn't crazy money.

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It was $30,000 or $35,000.

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He talked to Danielle about it.

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Like this is the only chance I'm going to get to be able to say I played pro.

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So John moved down to Houston.

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I didn't have any expectations.

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I just worked my tail off.

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I was a bad skater.

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I worked at skating.

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I was a bad passer.

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I would work at passing after practice.

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But he says no matter what he did, he would not get any playing time.