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GLENDALE, Ariz. — For two summers when he was 18 and 19 years old, Phoenix Coyotes coach Dave Tippett would trek up to northern Saskatchewan and set up camp amid the brush and bushes.
But this wasn’t a vacation from the junior hockey season that had just ended. Tippett had taken a job as a firefighter.
“You were up in the bushes for 10 days, and then you came out for five,” he said. “When you’re a teenager and you work hard for 10, then get a five-day weekend, it was a good thing."That’s why Tippett is more than willing to arrange his players into two teams Wednesday night for an intrasquad scrimmage to benefit the families of the 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots firefighters who died battling the Yarnell Hill fire on June 30.
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