Rocco Grimaldi, Nashville Predators

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5 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Episode 247

Rocco Grimaldi plays professional hockey with the Nashville Predators in the NHL. He was selected in the second round (33rd overall) by the Florida Panthers in the 2011 NHL Draft after playing his college hockey at the University of North Dakota.

He made his NHL debut on November 1, 2014 with Florida and even had the unique honor of playing in 2 professional hockey games, with 2 different teams, in the same day.

He was traded from Florida to Colorado on June 23, 2016 and then signed a one-year, two-way contract with the Nashville Predators in July of 2018.

On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Rocco about the grind of playing in the NHL, how he lives his faith out as a hockey player, being patient in the midst of adversity, and how he came to play 2 pro hockey games with 2 different teams in the same day.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation.
0:17.0	Here's your host, Jason Romano.
0:20.0	This episode of the Sports Spectrum podcast with Rocco Grimaldi of the Nashville Predators is brought to you by Compassion International.
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1:39.7	Today's guest on the podcast, Rocco Grimaldi joins us.
1:44.1	Rocco is a center with the Nashville Predators in the NHL.
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