August 24, 2010
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Mitchell Gunning for a Contract
Photo by Jenelle Schneider/Vancouver Sun
The following article featuring former Clarkson standout Willie Mitchell appeared in the August 24 issue of the Vancouver Province.
By Gordon McIntyre
The Province
If you're wondering how Willie Mitchell's doing, some shattered pieces of polymethyl methacrylate behind one of the nets at UBC's Thunderbird Sports Centre will give you an idea.
Mitchell, skating with a half-dozen other NHLers on Monday morning, stepped into a drop pass at the blueline, put all his weight into his 63-inch Easton and blistered a puck past the ear of goalie Martin Jones.
Mitchell's smile can be infectious and he sported one of his biggest after the glass splintered into hundreds of shards.
