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SAM ANAS

SIGNS WITH

MINNESOTA

WILD

W hen Sam Anas played youth hockey for the Little
Caps and Team Maryland, he wasn?t the kid everyone
said would one day play in the NHL. Each season, he
says, ?I just worried about making the AAA team the next
year.?
One year he didn?t make it. ?I played for Little Caps for
three years, squirt major then pee wee minor and pee wee
major,? he says. When Little Caps went dormant for a few
years, he moved to Team Maryland ? where he faced the
first major setback of his hockey career.
?As a freshman in high school, things didn?t really go my
way for a year or two,? he says. ?I didn?t make Team
Maryland and I also didn?t make the Landon Varsity team.
Those were the first two times I?d ever been cut from a
hockey team in my life.? It was devastating.
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