Hockey players talk about bad bounces all the time, but Blake Clayton ’s was about as bad as they come. Article content

More than halfway through his first OHL season with the Sudbury Wolves, the hard-working centreman from Burlington, Ont., was just two games back from a month-long stay on the injured list this past February when a puck deflected off a crossbar in practice and hit him square in the face, breaking his jaw. Article content Article content

While some players may have written off the season at that point, the 17-year-old was back in Sudbury just a week after his surgery, sitting through pre-scouts and team meetings. As soon as possible, he was back on the ice — wearing a full face shield, of course — for training sessions with assistant coach Andrew Desjardins, then e

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