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KK Hockey found this 11/15/2008 on globesports.com

VANCOUVER — Almost from the get-go, he felt lost. A first-round draft pick, fifth overall, of the Colorado Rockies in 1978, Mike Gillis injured a knee in his first training camp, had surgery, and didn't feel healthy for three years. "I fought, really, to hang on," he said. "There wasn't ...