Brad Ziemer Vancouver Sun Ryan Kesler refers to teammates Kevin Bieksa and Alex Burrows as his brothers. "Not like Hank and Danny brothers," he says of the Sedin twins. "We're like brothers that fight. We get into our arguments." But they always settle them and have been now for about seven years, ever since that day the three of them, all greenas-grass pros, became teammates with the Manitoba Moose. Bieksa remembers it like it was yesterday. "I didn't like Burr at first, I know that," he says. "He didn't make a good first impression. I think the first time I met him was in an intra-squad scrimmage in tryouts for the Moose and he went into my goaltender and I tried to keep him in the netting and wouldn't let him out as the play went into the other zone. I was trying to fight him and that's kind of where it started." Little did he know that would mark the beginning of a special...
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