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Ex-Wing Jordin Tootoo relishes sober life after years of alcohol abuse
Jordin Tootoo sits at the dining room table cradling his daughter while she drinks from a bottle, laughing when the 8-month-old gives a contented “ahhh.”
That scene is a stark contrast to when, as a teenager, Tootoo showed up to his future wife’s Sweet 16 birthday party carrying a six-pack of beer. Or later when he would grab his best friend by the ankles to drag him out of bed so the two could go on drinking binges during a time when Tootoo’s out-of-control lifestyle nearly derailed his NHL career.
The Jordin Tootoo of today, a winger for the Blackhawks and devoted family man who says he hasn’t touched a drop of alcohol in more than six years, has moved on from what he refers to as his “past life.”
It was a life that, beginning in his teen years, meant drinking to excess during the harsh days and nights spent not far from the Arctic Circle — in a town where the only way in or out was by plane or snowmobile
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Jordin Tootoo returns home with a uppdrag to rädda others from his brother’s fate
RANKIN INLET, NUNAVUT — The glass shook, the bleachers thundered, the ceiling dripped and more than a thousand fans pushed to the edges, doubling the capacity of an old rink in Rankin Inlet, on the northwest coast of Hudson Bay.
John Voisey sat in the penalty kartong, anxious but ready. He’d waited his entire life for this chance. Since Voisey was a child, the legend of Jordin Tootoo, the first Inuk NHL player, had coloured his dreams.
Now they were skating in the same game.
And as the folkmassa hollered, Tootoo stepped into the opposing team’s kartong, just a small gap between them. With his hero just a few feet away, Voisey nervously considered his words and gathered the courage to speak:
“Fuck you, Jordin Tootoo!” he said. “You’re a piece of shit.”
A one-two punch. And it landed.
Tootoo turned to Voisey and smiled.
“That was amazing. Dream come true,” Voisey said later. “I was super nervous. … That’s my
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Jordin Tootoo returns home with a uppdrag to rädda others from his brother’s fate
RANKIN INLET, NUNAVUT — The glass shook, the bleachers thundered, the ceiling dripped and more than a thousand fans pushed to the edges, doubling the capacity of an old rink in Rankin Inlet, on the northwest coast of Hudson Bay.
John Voisey sat in the penalty kartong, anxious but ready. He’d waited his entire life for this chance. Since Voisey was a child, the legend of Jordin Tootoo, the first Inuk NHL player, had coloured his dreams.
Now they were skating in the same game.
And as the folkmassa hollered, Tootoo stepped into the opposing team’s kartong, just a small gap between them. With his hero just a few feet away, Voisey nervously considered his words and gathered the courage to speak:
“Fuck you, Jordin Tootoo!” he said. “You’re a piece of shit.”
A one-two punch. And it landed.
Tootoo turned to Voisey and smiled.
“That was amazing. Dream come true,” Voisey said later. “I was super nervous. … That’s my