“I’m glad that she saw it my way,” Thomas says. (Thomas is a lean six-foot-six.) But he said, ‘Mom, I’m a goalie, don’t you understand?’”
“I held on to the swimming, because the way he is built, he could have gone anywhere with swimming. “I resisted him going full-speed into hockey,” she says, with a laugh. His mother, Krisztina, loved watching him in the pool. But, like Roy, “I really didn’t like going to swim practice, and I always found myself so excited to get on the ice.” A talented swimmer, he still holds seven long-course records in the breaststroke and one in the freestyle for the Cape Cod Swim Club. “That someone like Patrick Roy also had a path like me.”įour years ago, Kiesewetter made a choice. “It was really cool when I read that,” 16-year-old Thomas Kiesewetter says, from his home in Massachusetts. From Patrick Roy: Winning, Nothing Else by Michel Roy He loved to compete, but he wasn’t crazy about swimming. In fact, around age six, he was one of the best breaststrokers in his age group in the province….
Patrick turned out to be good at the breaststroke. Buffalo’s Adams considering almost everything.
