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Article: Fishing Lake produces a devil of a good player
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- Alberta Sweetgrass
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- March 31, 1998
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Fishing Lake produces a devil of a good player
FISHING LAKE METIS SETTLEMENT -- Sheldon Souray, 21, from the Fishing Lake Métis Settlement, north of Lloydminster, is now a Devil -- a New Jersey Devil -- in the National Hockey League.
The six-foot-four Souray wears number two and likes to play it tough. Just ask Edmonton Oilers forward Valeri Zelepukin who got dumped by Souray in a Jan. 28 battle which the Devils won at the Edmonton Coliseum.
Souray is one of Alberta's few Aboriginal players to make it to the National Hockey League. He appears to be fitting in quite well in his first year in the league. Since being drafted late in 1994 and playing for New Jersey's American Hockey League ...