What I did know was that I did not want to make any mistakes. So I took the year off and did a lot of thinking; it really made me miss the game. So when I came back to training camp this year, it was the hungriest I have ever been to play the game since I got drafted
“ My shoulder had been bugging me for over a year in Texas,” he said.“ I kept getting it looked at, but the doctors down there kept telling me that there was nothing wrong with it. So when I came back here for the summer, Pete MacDonald checked it out and said it was pretty messed up. He did an operation on it and gave me a six-month recovery.” At this point, Glennie was without a contract, without a team, and without a fully functioning shoulder. So he did what any other former eighth-overall NHL draft pick would have done. He took a year off to reassess.“ If I pushed it I knew that I could have come back around February,” Glennie said.“ But at that point, I wasn’ t really where I wanted to be, and I just didn’ t really know what I wanted to do. What I did know was that I did not want to make any mistakes. So I took the year off and did a lot of thinking; it really made me miss the game. So when I came back to training camp this year, it was the hungriest I have ever been to play the game since I got drafted.” During his rehab, with the help and support of his agent and Winnipeg Jets’ Assistant General Manager, Craig Heisinger, Glennie was given the opportunity to sign a professional tryout with his hometown Manitoba Moose. It
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