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The Faceoff: Jake Chelios
Jake Chelios did not intend to wear the #7 in his debut KHL season, nor did he begin his hockey career as a defenseman. The twenty-nine-year-old Kunlun Red Star newcomer acknowledges that the hockey gods may have been at play in forcing him to pay homage to his father, three-time Stanley Cup Champion Chris Chelios. “It was never up to me, I guess,” the Beijing blue-liner joked, but embracing a hockey adventure in China was wholly his own doing—a transatlantic trip that he will repeat next season.
