BUFFALO – The joke started during Zemgus Girgensons’ draft season three years ago.
Coach Jim Montgomery and his Dubuque Fighting Saints told stories – well, more like tall tales – about Girgensons, their hard-nosed Latvian captain, and dubbed them “The Legend of Zemgus.”
The stories, Montgomery said, “would just grow.”
“Because of the way he plays,” Montgomery said by phone Wednesday, “some of them are believable, like Zemgus means ‘one who eats lions’ in ... Read the full article