Written Option #2:

Some talk of climbing the metaphorical mountain as a way of achieving their goal.
For Matviy Cajabi, he has summited some of the peaks on his list. He got drafted, won a SMJHL championship and turned pro. And while some may look at winning the Challenge Cup as being as the ultimate, the triumph of the hockey seven summits, for others it's something entirely different. Something golden...

Keeping in the vein of mountain-speak, when Cajabi was a young boy living in the Ukraine (on the off chance that hasn't been mentione fifty or sixty times) he would take his toboggan to the highest hill he could find. He'd slide down and pretend he was bobsledding, luging or doing the skeleton. And imagine that one day he'd have a gold medal draped around his neck and join the small list of Ukrainian athletes who have managed to achieve the same feat since participating in the Olympics since 1994. Imagine that his name would be remembered amongst other Ukrainian legends like the first Olympic flagbearer for the Ukraine, Viktor Petrenko, and the first ever Olympic champion for the Independent Ukraine, the "Swan of Odessa", Oksana Baiul.

Of course, hockey came along and his Olympic sledding aspirations were replaced by those on the ice. But who knows. With his opportunity to win gold at the World Juniors having passed as well as the Ukraine not being represented in the IIHF tournament (and Czechia seemingly unwilling to call his name to wear their sweater as of yet), he may need to turn back to his childhood dreams if he ever wants to make it to the top of "his" Everest and have a gold medal draped around his neck.