The S44 version of Vasily Horvat is the gray bearded veteran. His career is closer to an end than it is to the beginning, and it is apparent. He has lost a step, he isn’t as fast, doesn’t play with that same physical edge that he did earlier in his career. Having gone the last three seasons without a fight, it is now the score sheet that does the talking, and not his fists. He still finishes plenty of checks, but he isn’t the same heat seeking missile he was in his younger days. He has seen many of his peers hit milestones that he will never accomplish or gain fame that he will never have. Yet every day he shows up and puts the work in. He never stops, he never quits, and its not in his vocabulary it be lazy. One day he will hang up the skates for good, but today is not that day.