And while we are all busy sports-wise up north, my nephew is busy with hockey down south. Here is a excerpt from the newspaper regarding his coming weekend:The challenge this weekend is going to be ignoring what’s outside the glass. Namely the 200-or-so scouts who’ll be watching every shift they take and making observations that could affect the rest of their hockey lives.
... David Eccles. A year ago, the imposing defenceman wasn’t even on the scouts’ radar. Heck, two years ago he was fighting just to make the AAA team after spending his earlier seasons in AA and even AE levels in Ancaster.
Now, after growing seven inches in the past year, the Ancaster Secondary student’s seen as the team’s other sure-fire prospect. Big and mobile with a touch of nasty, the head of OHL Central Scouting described him as the kind of player teams love.
“Those are the kind of players you win championships with,” Darrell Woodley says.
Eccles doesn’t pretend there’s no pressure on him this weekend. There is. Still, he says it really doesn’t bother him. In fact, he insists that seeing all those dozens of men with their team jackets and clipboards excites him because it makes him think about where he’s been and how crazy it is that he’s one of the guys they’re now watching.
He fights hard to appear stoic, but simply asking him about the possibility that he could be drafted causes him to lose the battle and break into a wide smile.
“I try to hide it sometimes but it’s hard to,” he says. “I never thought I’d really be here.”
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I'll have my fingers crossed for you David.
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