El Diablo on Ice

Rookie Scott Gomez is the first Latino to play in the NHL. Now he's playing for the Stanley Cup

Do you have a shirt I can borrow?" It's Scott Gomez's first year living on his own, and he forgot to pack a T shirt. He is sequestered at a hotel in northern New Jersey with his Devils teammates during the Stanley Cup finals, and even though the team is in a good mood after beating the Dallas Stars, 7-3, in Game 1 the night before, no one is helping him out. "Come on," he says to roommate Jason Arnott, "you don't have an extra shirt? You've got a better body than me. Let me wear yours."

Other than the shirt...

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