‘“We’re so proud of him,” Joan said of her eldest grandchild, who embraced the family’s hockey-playing heritage as a boy and took it all the way to the NHL, where he plays for the Buffalo Sabres. “You sit here and watch him out there and remember that little bugger who used to get into all the sticks and pucks in the basement … His goal was always to be an Olympian. Even when he was very young, he knew he was going to be a hockey player, just like his dad and his grandpa.”’