Dan Petry made his name as a pitcher on the famed 1984 Tigers. But in retirement, he became a hockey dad. And now, his son is a Red Wing.
had been up-front with him: They were going to try to move him somewhere else. And they had done him the courtesy of asking which destinations he might want them to explore. Detroit, where Jeff had grown up and where his father had made his name, was at the top of his list.Jeff, naturally, told his father, but the situation was still fluid. It needed to be kept quiet. And that put Dan in secret-keeping mode.
Fortunately, he didn’t have to wait long. Nine days after Petry was dealt back to Montreal on Aug. 6, he got the call he and his family had been waiting for: The Canadiens were sending him home to Detroit in exchange for defensemanJeff Petry had allowed himself to think about this idea over the course of his career. He had grown up watching the Red Wings, with a Red Wings-themed bedroom, playing out in his mind the idea of one day wearing their jersey.
“He ended up signing with Montreal, and then it was just like, yeah, I don’t quite see this happening ever,” Dan said. “But here we are.”It’s a full-circle moment, both for a kid who grew up in Grosse Pointe and then in Farmington Hills, and for a dad who learned the sport of hockey through his sons’ eyes.
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