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per Greder:
When Thomas Barber delivered crushing checks for the Robbinsdale Armstrong High School hockey team, his coach Dan Charleston would look apologetically at the other bench.
“Thomas would hit guys so hard,” Charleston recalled. “He hit a kid so hard one time that his forehead split open.”
Barber wasn’t a goon on skates. The forward would score some goals, but he relished his enforcer role on the ice, bringing the same physical style he now uses as the Gophers’ starting middle linebacker. On a roster peppered with two-sport prep athletes, he is the only scholarship player at Minnesota who played high school hockey.
“Football is my heart, but I will always miss hockey,” Barber said.
http://www.twincities.com/2017/10/2...-honed-aggressive-football-skills-on-the-ice/
Go Gophers!!
When Thomas Barber delivered crushing checks for the Robbinsdale Armstrong High School hockey team, his coach Dan Charleston would look apologetically at the other bench.
“Thomas would hit guys so hard,” Charleston recalled. “He hit a kid so hard one time that his forehead split open.”
Barber wasn’t a goon on skates. The forward would score some goals, but he relished his enforcer role on the ice, bringing the same physical style he now uses as the Gophers’ starting middle linebacker. On a roster peppered with two-sport prep athletes, he is the only scholarship player at Minnesota who played high school hockey.
“Football is my heart, but I will always miss hockey,” Barber said.
http://www.twincities.com/2017/10/2...-honed-aggressive-football-skills-on-the-ice/
Go Gophers!!