Ed Willes: DiPietro embraces Canucks' challenge, pressure, keeping life 'simple'

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PENTICTON — Michael DiPietro, who is 19 going on 32, looks around the Vancouver Canucks’ locker-room at the 2018 Young Stars Classic and says every player here represents a unique story so, on that basis, he’s no different than anyone else. And that’s true — to a point. But when you lose your mother when you’re five, when you and your dad have to make your way in the world together, when you’re confronted with choices you’re really too young to make, that’s not a story everyone can tell. DiPietro is many things — an elite goaltending prospect for the Canucks, a Memorial Cup champion with the Windsor Spitfires, the presumptive starting goalie for Canada at the World Juniors in Vancouver this Christmas

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