Austin Czarnik doesn’t look like a hockey player. At just 5’9″ and 160 lbs, Czarnik looks like he’d fit in more on a soccer field than an ice rink. He’s had to work extremely hard just to prove he can compete with other players. Even then, hard work wouldn’t be enough to make a team.
“For me it was hard coming up. I was cut from pretty much every Triple-A team pretty much because I was too small,” shared Czarnik with the Boston Herald. “It’s been a hard process for me. I always had just one person who’s believed in me and that’s how I’ve gotten through my whole career pretty much.