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lex Goligoski doesn't look like a typical hockey player. He's this unassuming, always smiling, friendly (proof he's Minnesotan, at least) and super skinny, 5-foot-11 guy that looks like he's maybe 170 pounds drip- ping wet. Back in 2007, when Pittsburgh Penguins general manager Ray Shero and assistant GM Chuck Fletcher flew to Minnesota to meet with agent Ben Hankinson about signing the Penguins' second-round pick after his sophomore season at the University of Minnesota, Shero walked into Hankinson's office and asked Fletcher, "Who's that?" when he saw this lanky kid with his arm extended after shoulder surgery talking in a hallway with Hankinson. Fletcher looked at Shero and chuckled because he thought Shero was kidding. He wasn't. Fletcher said, "That's Goligoski, you know, the kid we're here to sign!" Shero's jaw dropped because Goligoski just did not look like a typical hockey player. "Plus, he looked like he literally came right out of the operating room," Shero said, laughing. "He looked so uncomfortable." Goligoski opted to return to school for his junior year before signing in Pittsburgh. P R E S E N T E D B Y 27 "The first thing I did when I arrived was take Goose's number. I'm not kidding. Goose wore No. 13 in Pittsburgh, but I showed up and said, 'Thanks very much kid, but that's my number.'" – Bill Guerin N O V / D E C 2 0 2 1 | M H J ON L I N E . C O M A Photos / Rick Olson