When I was just little baby boy starting to play hockey, I was like all the other kids: I wanted to clap bombs and dangle and snipe top-shelf for a living. But the day I realized there was more to hockey than that and decided to switch and become a solid defensive defenseman, there was only one player I could turn my head towards, to try and emulate: Mia Landvik.

She has such great defensive ability, and can throw the body around to punish her opponents just as much as she can move her feet and use that stick to regain possession of the puck. Sure, her offensive skills (and especially her shooting) aren't very great, but there are many players out there that can do that, while there are fewer players like us who choose to use our speed to hit people and recover pucks. She still knows how to move the puck pretty decently once she recovers it too, and that's an aspect of my game I try not to forget too often at practice.

That's why I want to be like Mia, and never miss a chance to watch her play, I can still learn a lot just by looking at her. And, let's be honest, she's not that hard to look at either .