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Derek Grant Looks Back On His Hockey Career

OHL career, and after a four-
By Dave Murphy
game stint with the Adirondack
hey say hockey is a family Red Wings of the American
Tand once you’re a member Hockey League in the spring
of the family, you never leave. of 1995, Grant arrived in
For Cornwall-born Derek Grant, Charleston for the East Coast
it’s a fraternity and he’s still a Hockey League playoffs as a
part of it. member of the South Carolina
Stingrays. “I couldn’t believe the
Grant will always be the answer crowd,” Grant shares, excited as
to the question, “Who was the he reminisced. “Southern fans
last Cornwall-born player to be were just getting used to hockey
drafted by the OHL’s Cornwall with the hitting and fighting.”
Royals?”. He may have been
drafted by Cornwall, but he Grant spent most of the next
played a year and a half with the six seasons with the Memphis
Newmarket Royals. Grant spent River Kings raking in 468 points
three seasons in the OHL with in only 317 games, including
Newmarket, Niagara Falls, and a 123-point season in 1998-
the Ottawa 67’s amassing 172 99. “We (all the players) were
points in only 161 games. It’s his celebrities with the fans. They
time in Ottawa he remembers the couldn’t get enough of the game Photo Submitted
most. “Playing for such a storied of hockey.”
franchise was a lot of fun,” says Grant wrapped up his playing
Grant. “Having the legendary career with three teams during
Brian Kilrea as my coach helped the 2000-01 season: Memphis,
me develop as a player.” Macon, and Indianapolis.

Immediately following his Continued on page 37
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