"Jean Keith will never forget the day when she realized her hockey-crazed son, Duncan, was fixated on proving the skeptics wrong.

"One parent asked Duncan, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' and he said 'I want to be an NHL player,' " Jean told NHL.com on Saturday. "And the parent just laughed because Duncan was just so small. But he was really mad that she laughed and he asked me, 'Why is she laughing, mom?'

"He was 9 years old at the time, and I knew then his heart was in this for the long haul."

It was a long road to the top but Keith reached hockey's pinnacle this past season – an Olympic gold medalist, Norris Trophy winning defenseman and Stanley Cup champion with the Chicago Blackhawks."