Her brother, Tony, played hockey at the University of Wisconsin, for the 1988 U.S. Olympic hockey team, and for the New York Rangers, Los Angeles Kings, and San Jose Sharks of the NHL. Two of Granato's other three brothers, Don and Rob, also played college hockey at Wisconsin. "We were hockey nuts," she explained to the
St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The Granato family played hockey whenever they could on a pond across the street from their home in Downers Grove. "We were on the pond all day," Granato recalled in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "We'd come in for supper and sit at the table with our skates on and then go back across the street to play some more. Everything our family did was hockey, hockey, hockey."
In the summer time the Granato children continued to play in the basement of the family home on a rink they marked off with tape on the walls and floor. They played on their knees using sawed-off sticks and rolled up Kleenex wrapped in tape as a puck. "It was a couple hours, every day," Granato told Newsday. "The wall was the boards. Full body checking.
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