by Bob Lutz
Wichita Eagle
Alex Bourret, it will not shock those who have regularly watched him play hockey, was a bit of a malcontent in school.
“Nothing big,” the Wichita Thunder forward said. “I just didn’t like going.”
When he was in class as a child, his teachers pleaded with him to pay attention. He was helpless; all he could think about was playing hockey.
This doesn’t set Bourret apart from many children who grow up in Canada, of course. But Bourret’s obsession with the sport did go a little above and beyond.
And now, all these years later, he’s as in love with hockey was he was as a wide-eyed kid growing up in Drummondville, a small town in Quebec about 45 minutes from Montreal.
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