Every hockey player’s goal is to make it here. All the hours spent in to make it. Practicing everything; edgework, your shot, your speed, your strength. Your work on comes into this one spot. Three days of straight grinding. He’s testing your speed, your IQ, your skating, your hands, and your shot. 45 kids looking for a spot. But only 17 will succeed. They all want V-squad. They all say “Oh good luck. Hope you make it!”. They don’t mean it. They want the spot for their own. They will not share it with anyone else. They all do almost anything they can to get it. All just to be 1 of 17. I went for it too. All day trying to beat out everyone. Out-skating the upper classmen in conditioning. Stopping all the 2 on 1’s. Scoring on the goalie every
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We went around the circles doing crossovers and skating backwards. It was clockwork. I was up in the front three on my side with Trevor Gray and Adam Peterson. The only thing we weren’t matched in was backwards. It was my life. I can do that in my sleep. Peterson on the other hand. For some reason doesn’t know how to do them after all the years he’s played hockey.
Day 2 was skating with pucks. It was the same thing as the day before but with pucks. Yet again, it’s clockwork. I flew through this day. So did everyone who flew with the first day. I could tell it would be a tight race. There was 4 defensemen on the team already. It was Nick Gray, Trevor Gray, Holden Edwards, and my brother Jack. Coach only carries 5 defensemen, but one of our starters was hurt, which was why holden was back there. Only one spot was open.
Day 3 was drills. This is where I started to slip. I had the speed and the passing, but my shot wasn’t that good. It was slow and not that accurate. All the drills we had to do I had to shoot in. After Practice, we normally had dryland. Where we had run 2 laps and that would be it. It was really easy for everyone except our goalies. They are big and slow. We didn’t have dyland on the 3rd day. It was roster day. Coach called us in and he announced the roster. I was waiting for more. I was waiting for my
We went around the circles doing crossovers and skating backwards. It was clockwork. I was up in the front three on my side with Trevor Gray and Adam Peterson. The only thing we weren’t matched in was backwards. It was my life. I can do that in my sleep. Peterson on the other hand. For some reason doesn’t know how to do them after all the years he’s played hockey.
Day 2 was skating with pucks. It was the same thing as the day before but with pucks. Yet again, it’s clockwork. I flew through this day. So did everyone who flew with the first day. I could tell it would be a tight race. There was 4 defensemen on the team already. It was Nick Gray, Trevor Gray, Holden Edwards, and my brother Jack. Coach only carries 5 defensemen, but one of our starters was hurt, which was why holden was back there. Only one spot was open.
Day 3 was drills. This is where I started to slip. I had the speed and the passing, but my shot wasn’t that good. It was slow and not that accurate. All the drills we had to do I had to shoot in. After Practice, we normally had dryland. Where we had run 2 laps and that would be it. It was really easy for everyone except our goalies. They are big and slow. We didn’t have dyland on the 3rd day. It was roster day. Coach called us in and he announced the roster. I was waiting for more. I was waiting for my