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Light and dark combine in Kadri香蕉视频直播檚 journey to lifting the Stanley Cup with the Colorado Avalanche in 2022.

After a collision with St. Louis Blues goaltender Jordan Binnington in Game 3 of the second round, police sought Kadri out to inform him that he and his family were targets of death threats and vitriolic racism 香蕉视频直播渨orse than anything I香蕉视频直播檇 ever experienced,香蕉视频直播� he recalled in the book.

The Avs assigned Kadri a security detail and arranged to have a police presence at his Denver home.

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Kadri turned that trauma into motivation to score his first career playoff hat trick in Game 4 of that series.

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His NHL career is far from over as he plies his trade in Western Canada, but Kadri felt the time was right to tell his story so far.

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