The Homeless Unheard Story of Dustin Byfuglien
We know NHL'ers as rich celebrities, and can sometimes misjudge a individual. At the end of the day, money is not a personality trait, and everybody comes from somewhere. Let's take a look at the unheard story of Dustin Byfuglien.
"Cheryl Byfuglien and her son lived in a trailer behind the tidy home of her parents in Roseau, a hockey town of 2,700 in northwest Minnesota hard by the Manitoba border. Byfuglien rented his skates-not uncommon among growing kids--but paying off a stick shaft in three installments at the local hardware store was out of the ordinary.
When Byfuglien went off to play junior hockey, his mother borrowed $80 from her parents to buy him an all-purpose black suit. "And we never found a winter coat that fit because he had such long arms and big shoulders," she says. "I don't know how he [lived in Canada] without a winter coat ... but we couldn't afford it at the time."
This truly goes to show never judge a book by its cover, �'big buf'' came from somewhere just like we all did.
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Yes, he was a beast! | 291 | 78.4 % |
No, but close. | 80 | 21.6 % |
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