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Article: Risebrough is quiet part of Wild's success.(SPORTS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- March 4, 2003
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Byline: Tom Jones; Staff Writer
Since trading in his hockey uniform for a suit, Wild General Manager Doug Risebrough has been the quiet type. Feisty and rowdy on the ice as a player, Risebrough has taken a much more unassuming approach as a hockey executive. He is humble, soft-spoken and modest about being a cornerstone - perhaps even being the center beam - in what many people in hockey cite as the model expansion team.
Maybe his reserved demeanor and unwillingness to take a share of the credit for the Wild's success has led him to keep this little nugget to himself: A month ago, Risebrough signed an extension to continue being general manager of the ...
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