The player currently playing in the SHL that I most look up to is Ronnie Westbrook. He is the epitome of everything I want to emulate in my play style as an offensively minded defenseman. He plays big minutes for the Hamilton Steelhawks on the first pairing and also quarterbacks one of their powerplay units. On the other hand, he is also so versatile and has such great skating and puck handling skills that he is also effective on the penalty killer and plays a significant amount of time on that unit as well.

Westbrook started out as a defensively responsible two-way forward with an excellent ability to score and drive the play offensively, but progressed into a stellar offensive defenseman out of necessity for his team and because it simply fit his play style more. So far, my offensive production has been extremely good and my defense left relatively wanting. That is basically how I see Westbrook and myself in the same light. Sometimes we cheat a little towards the offensive side of the puck or pinch a bit deeper than we should. Overall though, we help our team score more goals than our offensive zone excursions cause to go against our team and that is why our skill set will remain to be so coveted and why I look up to him so much.