Amateur Career
Rod Langway was born when his father, an American serviceman, was stationed in Taiwan, and he is the only NHL player to have been born in Republic of China. He grew up in Randolph, Massachusetts and did not begin playing hockey until age 13 in 1970, aside from pick-up street hockey games with the neighborhood boys. He then played for his high school team, the Randolph Blue Devils, which he led to state tourney appearances in 1973 and 1975. He was also the quarterback for the Randolph football team, and it was a football recruiter from the University of New Hampshire (UNH) who convinced him to play college hockey at UNH.
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