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From pairs skating to NHL coaching.
The two women looked at each other, disbelief wrapped in joy. Nearly half a century after Barbara Underhill and Tracy Tutton had met in seventh grade as aspiring figure skaters attending the same school, they were now standing on the ice at Amalie Arena, together, as the Tampa Bay Lightning celebrated winning the Stanley Cup.
The emotions came through, in tears, in hugs, in eyes shining with the knowledge that their boys, "a whole team of sons," as Tutton put it, had just won the Cup for the second straight season. But it was more than that. They had done it together, an unexpected outcome in an unexpected career in an unexpected sport, and this time they were allowed on the ice to celebrate...
The third member of their trio -- longtime friends who all made the transition from figure skating to hockey as NHL skating coaches and now are consultants to various teams in the League -- was not there on the ice that night, July 7. But even Dawn Braid had a hand in that season and that moment, having long tutored then-Lightning forward Barclay Goodrow as a private client...
"All three of us were pairs skaters for quite some time and [learned] the whole biomechanics and science behind what you need to be aware of in your body and how you need to handle yourself on the ice in order to not be killed," Tutton said. "Because it's definitely not an easy task.
The two women looked at each other, disbelief wrapped in joy. Nearly half a century after Barbara Underhill and Tracy Tutton had met in seventh grade as aspiring figure skaters attending the same school, they were now standing on the ice at Amalie Arena, together, as the Tampa Bay Lightning celebrated winning the Stanley Cup.
The emotions came through, in tears, in hugs, in eyes shining with the knowledge that their boys, "a whole team of sons," as Tutton put it, had just won the Cup for the second straight season. But it was more than that. They had done it together, an unexpected outcome in an unexpected career in an unexpected sport, and this time they were allowed on the ice to celebrate...
The third member of their trio -- longtime friends who all made the transition from figure skating to hockey as NHL skating coaches and now are consultants to various teams in the League -- was not there on the ice that night, July 7. But even Dawn Braid had a hand in that season and that moment, having long tutored then-Lightning forward Barclay Goodrow as a private client...
"All three of us were pairs skaters for quite some time and [learned] the whole biomechanics and science behind what you need to be aware of in your body and how you need to handle yourself on the ice in order to not be killed," Tutton said. "Because it's definitely not an easy task.
