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All Aboard The Silovs Train: How Goalie Arturs Silovs Led Abbotsford To An AHL Championship

All Aboard The Silovs Train: How Goalie Arturs Silovs Led Abbotsford To An AHL Championship

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Shortly after the Abbotsford Canucks began celebrating their Calder Cup championship, a few of the players got to work. Their goalie was busy doing interviews – because he was the biggest reason they won the thing – so he didn't see his teammates surreptitiously cutting the netting off the Canucks' goal at Bojangles Coliseum. (Greatest arena name ever, by the way.)
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