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Article: DASKALAKIS SETS SIGHTS ON OLYMPIC GOAL
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 9, 1987
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For goalie Cleon Daskalakis, the time for decision came early
this summer. He faced it and made his choice.
"I'm leaving the city I love for the country I love; it's like
moving from a pond to the ocean," he said before leaving for the US
Olympic team camp at Lake Placid this weekend.
He wasn't "gassed by the Bruins," he said. "I was offered a
contract and I turned it down. It was my option, my choice, my
decision to leave. I had a clause that gave me my walking papers if
I wanted them." And he stepped through that opening to try
something that has been a long-standing objective in his checkered
career -- to make the US Olympic team.
The former Boston University star signed with the ...