"I had a really good support system around me," Seattle Kraken forward Frédérick Gaudreau says. "My parents never asked anything other than 'do you love the game?' " Photo by Steph Chambers / Getty Images

Frédérick Gaudreau got used to being told he wasn’t good enough over the years. Article content

That he heard it for the first time at age 12, from an obviously insensitive minor-league hockey coach, was damaging yet motivating and set the wheels in motion for what he would blossom into — an undrafted free agent now in his ninth NHL season , with more than 400 career regular-season games on his resumé. Article content Article content

“How many times? A lot,” the Seattle Kraken forward said Tuesday morning at the Bell Centre before facing the Canadiens in Montreal’s home ope

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