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Hobson takes mantle and leads the way

CHIEFS

Last-place Portland invades the Arena tonight for a showdown with the next-to-last-place Chiefs, who are trying to stop a long losing streak.

So whom do the Chiefs look to for leadership? That would be captain Adam Hobson, the subject of a Jeff Bunch profile in today's S-R. According to Bunch's story, Hobson has fulfilled the high expectations the team had for him when Spokane took him in the first round of the WHL draft in 2002.

As we mentioned before, the Winter Hawks have won three consecutive games. But we neglected to link to this story. Now we have.



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