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His advice to smaller players is to have a town to make a junior team.," he says.
high compete level ?whether you are Anas packages so His advice to today?s Little Caps? ?Never
skating to beat out an icing or just win a give up. You might think that just because
short puck race.? many things that you don?t make a team that you might not

?Being a smaller statured player, you can are inspirational: have a future in hockey, but definitely don?t
never back down,? he says. ?If you finish He?s the small guy give up and keep working hard. Never
your check on a [big] defenseman, that forget the people who doubted you so you
might not mean you knock him down, but it w ho didn?t let his can use that as motivation to prove people
might mean you slow him down.? As a size define him; wrong. Use it as that extra little bit of
result, ?they?re not able to jump up in the motivation when you?re working out of
rush or they turn the puck over and we the ?bubble? kid doing some off-season training.?
regroup, now that defenseman has bad gap. w ho struggled to ?And for sure at that age, you?ve got to
You have to be competing every shift and enjoy it,? he says, ?just remember that
not skating away and having turnaways make the team you?re doing this because you love the
from bodies.?
and never quit; game.?
He says players today don?t have to leave the local player Anas packages so many things that are
the Washington area to make it to the next inspirational: He?s the small guy who didn?t
level. w ho didn?t move let his size define him; the ?bubble? player
?I?d gone to Landon since third grade and aw ay from home who struggled to make the team and never
there wasn?t any doubt in my mind that I and still achieved quit; the local DC-area kid who didn?t move
would graduate high school from anywhere away from home and still achieved his
else. I was going to make it happen one way his dreams. dreams. He overcame every obstacle and
or another.? Even as an NHL prospect, he?s now is headed to the NHL.
still training in the DC area. He skates four
helped me in my career and they still do,? ?It?s even crazy for me to think about,? he
times a week with his old DC Capitals
he says. Staying local is an option for says. ?I try not to get caught up in it and
coaches, Jason and Jared Kersner, with
others as well. "You don?t have to leave just keep working hard.?
Pinnacle Hockey. ?Those two guys really

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