Dan Hinote was already a local boy who made it big. Hinote, raised in Elk River, eventually went to the U.S. Military Academy before becoming the first player from there to be drafted by an NHL club. He parlayed being drafted by the Avalanche into a nice NHL career, which has continued with the St. Louis Blues. And, over this past weekend, he got married.

To a former Playboy playmate.

Who is the sister of Jenny McCarthy.

And Jim Carrey attended his wedding dressed as Fidel Castro.

Mr. Hinote is shooting from close range into the goal of life. From the STLToday blog and Rocky Mountain News (and many thanks to one J. Shelman for the tip on this):

Regardless of what the Blues did in free agency this summer, nobody in the organization had bigger offseason plans than Dan Hinote. On Saturday in Colorado, where Hinote was one of the city’s most eligible bachelors while playing for the Avalanche, the 31-year-old Blues forward will say “I do” to Playmate model Amy McCarthy.

The 31-year-old McCarthy, who was the “cyber girl of the month” for Playboy.com in January 2005, moved to St. Louis and has attended many Blues games the past two seasons. She is a personal trainer for obese children locally, volunteers at Children’s Hospital and also writes for a St. Louis magazine.

Older sister Jenny McCarthy, a fellow Playmate and the girlfriend of actor Jim Carrey, has attended at least one Blues game. Jenny might be the more popular of the two, but together they drew quite a bit of attention.

And …

The wedding party of 10 groomsmen and 10 bridesmaids wore traditional garb for the ceremony, but the guests were asked to show up in their favorite ’50s costumes, which would explain the dead celebs who attended the wedding.

Castro, in full military garb and a fake beard, was among the last guests to arrive, which seemed a bit odd because he had a reserved front-row seat on the bride’s side. After the nuptials, Mr. On the Town spotted Castro walking arm-in-arm with the bride’s sister, actress Jenny McCarthy, out to the parking lot.

Was it? Could it have been? Yup, superstar Jim Carrey, Jenny’s beau, slipped in and out of the ceremony almost undetected except when Jenny’s 5-year-old son, Evan, started getting spooked by the get-up. “It’s me, Jimmy,” I was told that Carrey said while pulling down his beard to soothe the troubled young ‘un.

Congrats to the happy couple, but mostly to Dan Hinote.

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