As a young boy in the early 90’s I fell in love with the sport of hockey, and I had little interest for other sports. I played a year or two of soccer, when I was 6 or 7, but I quickly followed in my brother Ryan’s footsteps as I traded in the cleats for a pair of skates and spent many weekends watching the NHL on FOX’s game of the week.
Growing up in Hillsboro, there were not many other hockey fans in my elementary school, but the Canadian blood I inherited from my Winnipeg born mother and the time at the rink both playing and watching my older brother made for a fan of the coolest game on earth in the pacific northwest.