Radim Bicanek learned to curse in English before he could say ‘hello.’ Of course, that’s an exaggeration, but you get the point. And his language mentor was Paul Rushforth. Both were members of the former Belleville Bulls during Bicanek’s debut season in the OHL in 1993-94. Fresh from the Czech Republic when Canadian junior teams were just beginning to draft European skaters, Bicanek arrived in The Friendly City with a very limited English vocab…
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