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The last place Keith Primeau wanted to find his son Cayden located was between the pipes.

“It wasn’t his top choice. My oldest brother (Corey) was a goalie and switched back over,” recalled Cayden, in Plymouth, Mich., on the weekend for USA Hockey’s Warren Strelow national team goaltending camp.

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Breaking Cayden’s will proved to be much like he often is in goal — unbeatable.

“I would just drag my stick along the ice when I was a forward and he didn’t really like that, so he was like ‘might as well give him the opportunity (to play goal)’ and I loved every second of it,” Cayden explained. “He was like, ‘I’ve got to make my kid happy’ so he let me do it.

“I don’t know why I wanted to be a goalie. I couldn’t tell you, but I still love it.”

Keith was a power forward who won the OHL’s scoring title with the Niagara Falls Thunder in 1989-90 before moving on to an NHL career that lasted 15 NHL seasons, the first half dozen with the Detroit Red Wings from 1990-96.