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Thread: NHL lockout 'disgusts' young Staten Island hockey fan, 9-year-old Victor Guastella, w
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01-06-2013, 03:45 AM #1
NHL lockout 'disgusts' young Staten Island hockey fan, 9-year-old Victor Guastella, w
Just wanted to let you how I feel about the NHL lockout. Before I do, let me tell you about myself. I am 9 years old and live in Staten Island, NY. I proudly play youth hockey in the New Jersey Youth Hockey League, Squirt Division. The team that I co-captain and play center for is the Bayonne Rangers.
In an important league game on December 2nd, my team was trailing by two goals (3-1) during the second period. I was back checking against the other center and in a mad scramble around the net, I felt a sharp and sudden pain in my right leg. Unable to get up and continue playing, the referee blew the whistle and a coach from our team came to see how I was. Saying nothing except “it hurts,” I was escorted to the bench. After a closer look at my leg, there was blood and other stuff that I had never seen before coming out from a gash just above my kneecap. The skate blade from the other player somehow got between my shin guard and hockey pants and had sliced open some skin.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/ho...#ixzz2HBAwK38v
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01-06-2013, 04:34 PM #2
If only more people could grow up into a professional athlete without losing that kind of passion for the sport.
Yes, at age 9 it is difficult to understand why they're not playing - hell, at age 31 I'm still not entirely certain why we had to lose half the season over ideology and a desperate need for a salary cap that has gone up for seven years to have to go back down right here, right now, instead of over time.
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01-06-2013, 04:38 PM #3
As a Staten Islander myself I love this kids spunk.Just goes to show the passion for the sport not the money at the younger stages.
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