A goalie, a poet aims for political big leagues:
And now he writes bad poems. But, well, that's nothing. Did you know that John Dryden played a little hockey?
Many people know Ken Dryden as a hockey player. Some are now getting to know him as a politician. But as a poet?
That uncharted side of Dryden is discovered on a visit to his storefront campaign headquarters from where he's running as Liberal candidate in York-Centre in tomorrow's federal election. [...]
He played hockey well enough to become a gold-standard legend in his time on the ice. He was the goalie in the 1970s for the last Montreal Canadiens dynasty, with six Stanley Cup wins in the eight seasons he backstopped Les Glorieux, the last time they truly lived up to the name. He was in goal for the country's team in the greatest hockey series ever played, the immortal 1972 Canada-Russia showdown.
And now he writes bad poems. But, well, that's nothing. Did you know that John Dryden played a little hockey?
But wide Ambition loves to slide, not stand;
And Fortunes Ice prefers to Vertues Land...
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