BOSTON -- Pat Falloon knew where his broken sticks were going, knew what Craig Geekie was doing when he slipped the discarded pieces of equipment out of the trash can. He knew that they would have a new owner, a new purpose, a second life.

What Falloon didn’t know was what those sticks would mean for Morgan Geekie .

He didn’t know that those sticks, and the shot they would produce, would end up leading the NHL in goals.

It was back in the early 2000s, around 2003 or 2004, when Falloon -- the veteran of 575 NHL games with the San Jose Sharks, Philadelphia Flyers, Ottawa Senators, Edmonton Oilers and Pittsburgh Penguins -- joined Craig Geekie on a senior team, the Foxwarren Falcons in the North Central Hockey League in Manitoba.

Craig Geekie, who had two (soon to be three) young boy

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