Sportsnet: Call the Wolf

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A really great read for those who can still read more than 300 words at a time.

I find it a fascinating story (BY SONNY SACHDEVA IN MONTREAL)

There’s a story he tells about the ’07 All-Star Game in Dallas, his first. As it goes, a jersey mishap left the hulking, six-foot-nine Zdeno Chara without a properly fitting set of threads for the big game. Argentino got the call and went to work, scrambling to find some blank all-star jerseys, cutting sections off the spares and sewing them onto the bottom of Big Z’s sweater to extend it as much as possible. The last-minute save earned him a colourful nickname from an NHL rep who was there to see his work: The Wolf, after Winston Wolf, the Pulp Fiction character known for cleaning up messes. “If you have a problem that needs to be solved, you call up The Wolf,” Argentino explains.

When NHL stars have equipment issues, they call The Wolf - Sportsnet.ca

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