When he decided that 14 years in professional hockey were enough,
Paul Gaustad had a simple plan - "My whole goal this year was to basically relax," he says. "Be a father. Relax. Do things like I haven't been able to do - like go skiing." That plan lasted all of a couple of months.
When stepson Phillip Lamancusa's hockey team found itself without a coach,
Gaustad stepped forward. So, instead of battling the best players in the world,
Gaustad is preparing teenagers for hockey games and life beyond high school. The former Portland Winterhawks and NHL star from Beaverton, who retired in September, is trying to learn more about the world of youth hockey that once provided the foundation for his career.
"I didn't want to have a ton of commitments. But the thing that pushed me was being involved in Phillip's hockey and having maybe the only chance to be able to coach him and hang out with him on the road and that sort of thing,"
Gaustad says. The team won about half of its games this season, finishing with a championship of a Presidents' Day tournament hosted by the Junior Winterhawks - a title won in overtime of the championship game.
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