It's no secret that I started playing with my brothers when I was just a small boy, my first memory was my mother bringing me to the rink to watch my brothers and my wanting so eagerly to be out on the ice with them. I remember my brother holding me in his arms as we skated around the ice and I felt like I was flying, it’s a feeling I still get today. I guess you could debate whether or not my skills were natural born being that so many generations of men in my family were and still are amazing hockey players or you could say it’s just conditioning being that we played together every day after school to the point where my dad had built us a make shift rink in our own yard. My heart was always in it for the game, practicing with my brothers was fun enough but when we would scrimmage with the other players on the block and guys from my brothers team that’s where it really all came together for me. I like the competition to this day it’s my families favorite past time.