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Nicholas Kingman
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(Credit: Andy Nietupski/Texas Stars) In one's lifetime, an individual embarks on many adventures, and with that comes many first milestones – we all remember our first kiss, car, or whatever else that is consequential that makes us part of the human experience. We don’t have much choice; we are constantly reminded of them to prove who we are when signing into sensitive information, like a bank account. Then there are rites of passage that are uniquely tied to our given profession, maybe a musician's first paying gig or a lawyer's first big win. For a sportswriter, it's getting chastised by a coach in a post-game press conference. “We always win, and you always come with a negative question. Now that we lay an egg, are you going to come with a positive one?” That is what Neil Graham told me, opening our post-game press conference after a brutal home ice loss to the eventual Western Conference regular season champion, the Colorado Eagles, back in late February. I finally ...
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