“When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.” Gretzky’s mind set of hockey quickly had him playing with boys much older than him. In 1978, at age 17, he was signed a contract to the WHA Indianapolis Racers. In 1979 when the WHA join up with the NHL the NHL team associated was allowed to keep 2 players from their WHA team. Gretzky was obviously a choice for the Edmonton Oilers and was in the NHL by the age of 20. Wayne Gretzky is important to Canada in many different ways.
At eighteen he played in his first National Hockey League game with the Boston Bruins. He helped the team win two Stanley Cups. He got the Most Valuable Player Trophy three times, the Best Defenseman Trophy eight times and he won the Rookie of the Year Trophy his first year with the Bruins. Bobby Orr signed the first $1Million dollar hockey contract in 1971. He had bad knees from playing hockey his whole life.
He explains that because he is a fast skater, he plays as a left wing with a center and right wing to primarily score goals for their team. He then goes on to explain how he started out playing hockey for his brother’s team when he was five in Waltham, Massachusetts. Shawn also talks about how his career took off in 1992 when he played in the winter Olympics, and was signed to the Pittsburgh Penguins after being on their draft team since his junior year in high school in 1987. After playing the last half of the season with the Penguins, he went on to take them to win the Stanley Cup that year, which is every hockey player’s dream. Although he has been traded to different teams and finally landed with the Ottawa Senators, he does not think of hockey as a “job”.
Rite of Passage Character Development In the short story, “Rite of Passage”, by Doug Beardsley, readers can find the development of the temperament of characters during the hockey game. This is revealed in “All sports have a rite of passage; hockey is no exception.” However, the author didn’t give enough information of the character during the introduction of the narrative. The reader needs to uncover traits and perspectives of the protagonist in this story with the clues that the author provided further on. The protagonist of this story is the little boy who has an older brother. They both feel affection for playing hockey.
A seventeen year old, just made the winning goals for his basketball team. As his team members picked him up and carried him around on their shoulders, there was disbelief from the crowd but triumph smeared across the seventeen-year-old boy’s face. Jason McElwain has had autism since he was a young boy, possessing all of the signs including speech impairment by not being able to talk till he was five years old. Jason was the manager on his High School basketball team, consisting of filling up water for his teammates and sitting on the bench watching this favorite sport pass by him. His coach Jim Johnson told him to play near the end of a game giving him an opportunity he hasn’t been able to uphold.
Chris had many problems growing up he thrived off of his peers laughter and enjoyment but his biggest priority was making his dad proud which caused him so much grief and psychological problems through his life. Christopher Crosby Farley Born February 15th 1964 was the middle child of 6. Chris’s siblings as well as Chris would always fight for their father’s acceptance whether it was in academics or athletics. Since Chris was the middle child he was never the favorite growing up, Chris always looked for attention every day on the bus he would sing specific songs based off of his comedic attitude that day. All Chris cared about was making people laugh that was his life’s motive.
Hockey players dream of winning the Stanley Cup since they were little kids and now they have a chance. Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin both wear the letter C on their jersey and have both been to post season four times since they entered the league. In the post season Crosby has recorded 30 goals and 52 assists = 82 points in the 62 games he has played, while Ovechkin has only recorded 25 goals and 25 assists = 50 points in 37 games he has played (nhl.com). Crosby has taken home the Stanley Cup one time in the four years he has been to the post season, while Ovechkin has never made it to the Cup finals. This explains why Crosby has more games played than Ovechkin has because Crosby has had more success than Ovechkin has in the playoffs.
August Wilson was born on April 27, 1945 he was born at Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Wilson is the fourth of six children; his childhood was a bit rough on him he never had the presence of his father because he was never home and always missing out on important dates. He never had the father figure in his life he was always attached to his mother and only to his mother. He always tried his best to ignore the simple fact that his father wasn’t at home teaching him all the things a father would teach a young boy growing up and trying to avoid bad habits. And thankfully even without a father figure he grew up to be an amazing man.
Jimmy grew up having a normal childhood besides the fact that he didn’t know who his father was. He was always an athletic kid in any sport he played, but showed his talent mainly for swim. During his first season swimming he never lost making it to nationals winning every event he swam in. But that was not the weird part, the weird part was on his 13th birthday which happened to be a stormy night Jimmy and his mom were having a normal diner. When his mom got up to do the dishes she knocked over a glass of water, Jimmy tried to reach out to grab it but he could not.
His only downfall was his anger problems and always being in trouble in school. He did what he was supposed to do at home. He was an energetic healthy little boy who watched wwe wrestling on TV every Friday, Monday, and Sunday. He made the goal to get older and become stronger and better then the superstars he watched. He did 10 pushups a day and 25 sit ups to try and get a six pack.