Frédérick Gaudreau got used to being told he wasn’t good enough over the years. Article content

That he heard it for the first time at age 12, from an obviously insensitive minor-league hockey coach, was damaging yet motivating and set the wheels in motion for what he would blossom into — an undrafted free agent now in his ninth NHL season , with more than 400 career regular-season games on his resumé. Article content Article content

“How many times? A lot,” the Seattle Kraken forward said Tuesday morning at the Bell Centre before facing the Canadiens in Montreal’s home opener. “It started very young. I was probably 12 years old the first time it happened to me.

“At first, it’s your ego that takes a big shot. You start believing that you’re not good enough. But I had a really go

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