WHEN THEIR CHILDREN WERE playing youth hockey in Toronto, Rania and Alain Hage had a good-cop, bad-cop scenario that would play out after every game. On the way home in the car, regardless of how well they played, Alain would be a little hard on them, pointing out things they could have done better. When they arrived home, Rania would hug them and accentuate nothing but the positives.
Their sons, Michael and Alexander, never knew whether their parents plotted it that way, but Michael thinks it was an extension of their natural personalities. “My mom is just really caring, and she’s probably the nicest person in the world,” he said. “My dad was very, very hard on me, but it was how he showed how much he loved me and how…
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