" There is something that sets hockey apart from all others form. -- viewed by many as merely a regional pastime it has a tradition that can only be fully understood by experiencing it. Medicine hat Alberta. Duluth Minnesota. For Cole Harbour nova Scotia. Throughout the winners in Canada and the northern United States. You find an endless number of frozen lakes and ponds the local youth make their own hockey -- A fresh sheet of ice is an oasis during endless winter and canvas for the game to be displayed in its purest form. Fathers plus their backyards and let it freeze over in an attempt to give their children up private rank. Kids braved sub zero temperatures until they're told don't nom because once hockey is in their blood. The desire to escape it knows no bounds. It truly is just as much a tradition. As it is a sport. In the case of Jack Johnson you don't have to look far to see where his hockey roots alive."

" Jack's dad to act played hockey grew up played -- his whole life went to college at a hockey scholarship and when a national championship friend and a hockey was a huge part of his life."

" My uncles still. High school. Scoring record in Michigan and -- those. His one of them the good and they clear ability far."

" The midwest roots ran just as deep on Jack's mom's side."

" My mom and grandparents on -- in Michigan so my mom lives enjoy doing a football game you know -- along with various in this game about it. My dad took me a few Wisconsin and Minnesota in finishing things. Michigan's place."

" Jack and Tina Johnson may not realize that -- through the -- and -- Michigan athletics and the families own hockey tradition. The groundwork was being laid for a very special future for their son."