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Although the Ontario Hockey League is on hiatus through mid-July, many OHL players are involved with National Hockey League pro camps.
Plymouth goaltender Matt Hackett was taken in the third round (77th overall) by Minnesota in the recent 2009 NHL Entry Draft and is currently participating in his first camp with the Wild.
Minnesota Wild TV produced an interview of Hackett.
Hackett is also working on a diary for www.plymouthwhalers.com.
It starts last summer:
Dear Diary-
This year has been CRAZY! I started off last summer training hard 6 days a week with London Knights forward Nazem Kadri and our trainer Lee Griffith. Towards the end of the summer, my uncle (who was the goaltending coach for the Colorado Avalanche) brought me out to Colorado to train with Ian Laperriere, Peter Budaj, and John-Michael Liles. We trained 2 to 3 times a day. If we weren't in the gym we would be out running mountains, training with UFC fighters, or playing hockey with local NHLers. Seeing how hard they worked was a real eye opener for me and I wanted to bring that into Plymouth and show the team that I was ready to be a number one goalie in this league.
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