How a Rookie Hockey Player Prepared for the Big League
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🗓️ 22 October 2023
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NPR's Scott Detrow spends time at hockey training camp with goalie Mitchell Gibson.
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| 0:29.5 | I'm Scott Detron. |
| 0:32.0 | That thud is the sound of a rubber hockey puck that's been shot at Gibson that he is |
| 0:36.8 | blocking with his body. |
| 0:40.4 | It's kind of a crazy position where your job is to put your body in front of hockey |
| 0:44.3 | pucks that could be going at this level over 100 miles an hour. |
| 0:48.6 | A new NHL season is underway. |
| 0:50.6 | For one rookie, that means it's his first day of work. |
| 0:54.4 | Instead of this went behind the scenes on Mitchell Gibson's first day on the job with |
| 0:57.8 | the Washington capitals. |
| 0:59.8 | We had our microphones out as the 24 year old Goldie reported to rookie camp to try to make |
| 1:04.9 | the team. |
| 1:06.5 | Gibson was drafted in the fourth round back in 2018 and in hockey, unlike the NFL and |
| 1:11.2 | other sports, players are often drafted before they go to college. |
| 1:15.1 | So he committed to the capitals, but then headed to Harvard to play college hockey. |
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