Word: balmochnykh
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...more than any other Latino ever to play in the NHL. You see a lot of unusual names on the back of hockey sweaters (Balmochnykh, Selanne, Satan), but Gomez still sticks out. He's the first Latino to make the NHL, and perhaps the first to try. Even though the Anchorage, Alaska, native needs an interpreter for Telemundo interviews, he's become a Latino hero. "Just because he doesn't speak the language doesn't mean he isn't proud. He's just lazy," says his father, Carlos, whose parents were illegal Mexican immigrants. "It's become such an issue...
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