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Very interesting read from the Star-Ledger in New Jersey today about Team USA's Bobby Ryan, his family's relatively secret past, and how the events of October 30th, 1997 altered his life (and identity) forever.
"Bobby Shane Stevenson awoke to a nightmare on Oct. 30, 1997.
The 10-year-old had fallen asleep shortly after returning from attending a Philadelphia Flyers game. He went to bed upstairs not knowing his life would change forever in the next few hours.
He didn’t hear his dad — insurance company owner Robert Stevenson — storm into the family home in Cherry Hill, drunk, looking for his mother, Melody. Stevenson was sure his wife was taking drugs.
Their only child didn’t hear the screams and the panic. He didn’t see the bizarre chase down the street into a neighbor’s house. His father, an amateur boxer, ripped the door off the hinges and whaled away at the love of his life, causing her to bleed from her mouth and sending her to Cooper University Hospital in Camden for four days with four broken ribs, a fracture to her skull and a punctured lung.
Robert Stevenson was charged with attempted murder and five other felony counts. He tried to obtain a passport using the name of a dead baby before jumping bail. He fled to Canada and his wife, who had forgiven him, and his son later joined him.
Robert Stevenson and his son changed their names and lived under assumed identities and the family lived on the lam.
Today, the boy who protected his family’s dark and complicated secret for much of his life is a pivotal part of the U.S. Olympic hockey team that faces Canada.
The name on the back of his hockey jersey is different from the one he was born with, but Bobby Ryan realized he needed to tell the truth and no longer hides from it."
You can read the rest of the article on the Star-Ledger's website by clicking right here. I'd recommend you do just that.
 Cole Jones covers the Dallas Stars at The Other 6 Seconds in addition to his work on Bloguin's Olympic Hockey Blog.
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