No. 270: DOMINIK SHINE & BUD HOLLOWAY / Good things come to those who wait ... and wait ... and wait some more. Oh, and for Bud it wasn't "things," just one lonely, really good thing.
In Detroit, a 31-year-old minor-league journeyman finally made his NHL debut. It takes me back to a sheepish kid I talked to at the 2006 combine who had to wait nine years for his shot.
The photo of Bud Holloway, No. 52 of the Canadiens in your program, No. 1 from the 2006 NHL combine in my heart. Photo by Getty’s Bruce Bennett, a friend of How to Succeed in Sportswriting (without Really Trying).
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