AlaskaAlaska is a very close memory to me

because, it was a special bonding time with my dad. Alaska with it’s beautiful views from the mountain to the water was a perfect place for a time away for two people to get to spend some time. Alaska brought some funny moments when the street light was at a top of the hill, so when we stopped the car started rolling down the hill. Also at the hockey rink my dad sent me to the beer section where an employee stopped me and sent me back to my seat. There is some type of a history walkway all around the city of Anchorage where my dad and I talked about hockey and his love of the Pittsburgh Penguins. He even taught me some stuff that I never even knew about. Since then, my dad and I have been best friends. For college, I want to go to the University of Alaska Anchorage.

Bad Trophies Ever since I have started playing

sports I have received medals and bigger trophies for accomplishments, but a lot of the time I get a very bad trophy. Once my team won a tournament in Hudson where the prize was a sweater. Really, the trophy was a sweater, in the middle of summer. I was pretty angry about the “trophy” because our team worked really hard to try to win that tournament in the scorching heat. In fact the only goal I scored that summer was in that tournament so I was pretty dejected. Also in an ice hockey tournament in Waterville Valley the trophy was a hockey puck with a design of the tournament logo on it. That really got me going because our team played our hearts out with only 9 players and every one of us played the best hockey we ever played that year.

CanadaI have gone to Canada several times

but only for a few hours for each visit so I didn’t get the whole Canadian experience. My hopes and dreams are to some day move and live there for the rest of my life so that I could watch some hockey games at the some of the greatest venues in the sport. Also I really want to watch TSN (The Sports Network) which is my favorite channel, but of course I can’t watch the channel in the States. I love to play pond hockey and some of the best places and in Canada, where there are a whole lot of kids go out there and have fun, but no one in the United States could not really care about hockey. Plus the Hockey Hall of Fame is in Toronto and I would absolutely love to visit that place every single day.

DanglesThis my favorite part about the game

seeing all of the best players absolutely undress the defenders. My teammates and I always have a great time trying to pull off some of the best moves in the professional hockey leagues. I always have a good laugh about whenever I try to do something filthy like a Datsuyk of even a Kyle Turris. My teammates and I know I have the gift of hands of steel so I cant pull off anything. Still I will always keep trying no matter what and I will always fail at attempting these moves. I always will look up to my teammates who have nasty sets of hands to see if I can copy their moves, most likely it never works out. Even when I fail it is always still fun to at least try. But like I say sometimes perfection makes satisfaction.

Elementary School

I absolutely hated elementary school, especially Southeast, it was that terrible. The problem was that it wasn’t an appropriate setting for young children. See this elementary school looked like garbage, trash all over the floor and writing all over the walls. This type of behavior that went undisciplined, for the most part, is probably what carried over to what we have in this school right now. See the elementary school we went to the only things on the playground were a balance beam, swing sets that went sky high, and a this type of a jungle gym. The problems were that the balance beams other kids were running into it which caused head injuries, the swings and if someone decided to jump off they would either land on the wood type chips or on the pavement. This was not fun and which is why I hated Southeast. Now from what I heard in the past years there was asbestos in the kitchen. This was just a horrible place for children to learn. The school was also located in the projects and in the ghetto.

FishI have always been intrigued by the world

of fish since when I fast saw Finding Nemo which is my second favorite Disney movie and one of the only two that I would actually watch. When I was younger I wanted a fish so a badly that I would draw pictures of what color and size that I could possibly want . Finally, the day came when I got my first pet , a fish, sadly I had no idea he was sick and only lasted about 24 hours. I was very shocked and depressed, but only for 24 hours. This fish taught me a pretty good lesson to get over things quickly or the memories will haunt forever. Then another day about like 6 months later I got another fish that looked exactly like the first one, this one died because he was left next to a window for two weeks while my family was on vacation. I was disappointed that the fish died, but for the most part I didn’t really care because things come and go.

GamesHonestly besides hockey which is the sport I

absolutely love, I rarely go outside. My favorite outdoor activity as a you child was running around in the driveway. I felt that I would become faster and build more leg strength. The effect of running around racing in the driveway has made myself faster at running, but now the long term affect is myself having terrible knees. Whenever I did go outside though, I always got hurt so then, I stopped playing games due to my concern of safety. Now I only play video games and the only one I play is NHL2K11. I have mixed feeling about this game, one is that I love because it is the only game I enjoy playing, but I hate it because there is a lot of things you can’t do compared to the EA Sports NHL series. There are a lot of professional hockey players that I have met in person in this video game which is really cool so I play as them a lot of the times. Someday in the future I would hope to see myself in of the NHL video games.

HockeyHockey is my passion, it is my way of life

through the good times and the bad times. Hockey my most favorite sport of all time. I just don’t watch hockey, I play it, I live it, I experience hockey first hand. There have been ugly moments in my six year career, such as being sent on an ambulance twice for head related injuries , including one just last year, but I fought through, forgot about the past and moved on to one of the best seasons I ever played. The position I play is defense which I love because I don’t have to do a lot besides defend our zone. Whenever I watch a professional hockey game it is usually on the TV but I still feel the excitement as if I was sitting in the crowd. I have been to a few hockey games in person too, and my favorite “ponds” are the Fleet Center (now the TD Garden) and Madison Square Garden in New York, New York. I love the Fleet Center because it is close to home, but MSG because it is just the atmosphere of being in that building and all the famous events that happened in there. Also I attended the first ever Red Hot Hockey game ever at MSG, it is a moment I will never forget.

iPhone 4I can’t go anywhere without my

iPhone, fourth generation to be exact, it is my other way of life. I use my phone to keep up on social media to see what events have a very important effect on my life. The apps that I use the most are probably Twitter, Facebook, and TSN. I use the TSN app to check up on the NHL updates. Also, I first learned that the lockout was over on my phone so I was thankful I had my phone handy. Some other times, I use my phone to spam some of my contacts and other times I am usually the one who receives the “spamming” , like one time I received 65 text messages in the span of 3 minutes from three of my friends. Even though it may be irritating to others, I enjoyed it. Through my iPhone and my other friends’ phones we can always keep in touch.

JuneJune is my favorite month of the year

because of the warm weather and not the hot temperatures like July. In the month of June I usually go outside in the nice weather to play hockey in my driveway to practice my sub-par shooting skills. In the process of shooting my hockey balls I have broken two hockey sticks, but those were only valued at $15 to $20 each. Usually in June, my dad would take me across the country to watch some baseball games of various teams. We would call this going to different places for no specific reasons at all. One of my favorite moments was when we went to Tropicana Field in the Tampa Bay area to see a Tampa Bay Rays game. To get there we drove through the Everglades, which was pretty cool to see the swampy areas and the amounts of different wildlife in that area.

KeysI will always for the rest of my life forget

about where I put any type of keys. One time I completely forgot where I put my house key, but I ended up finding them on the kitchen table. I ended up getting yelled at by my mother for not knowing where I put my house key. Anyway, my house key is brown with M&M’s on it, I picked it out and I can honestly say the key is pretty weird. Now I don’t really like car keys because well, I have an inability to use them. Like one time instead of turning the engine completely off I turned it completely on so that the engine is set up so you can start driving. Also, another time, my mom told me to take the key out of the ignition switch. So I sat there for at least ten minutes trying to take a key out. I finally realized that to take the key out you have to push the key in and then yank it out.

LeadWhen was at least two years old, I

somehow contracted lead poisoning. My house was filled with lead and I then contracted lead poisoning. My parents then took me to the Emergency Room at Leominster Hospital, very concerned about my health. When I had lead poisoning I was 3 years old at the time so I could have had problems with my brain developing. Since then, my mom thought that I would have Autism. I am not sure but this could have affected my problems with speech.

MiracleThis is my favorite movie of all time. I love

watching this movie over and over again because of the story that the American hockey team went through to get there. I even cried during some parts, it is that heartwarming. The movie Miracle taught me that you can go against all odds and all you need it heart and soul to get through your problems like exactly what happened when Team USA beat the Soviets. This happened to my hockey team up in Waterville, were our team only had 9 players to the other teams’ who had at least 15 players each. Our team was all heart and soul during those 4 days in February which happened in almost the exact same time period as the Miracle on Ice took place. What is special too is that I have met some of the players that were on the United States team during the Miracle on Ice at Madison Square Garden. They even signed my Boston University jersey.

NewspaperI don’t really like reading the

newspaper because of the bogus that some of the writers and editors put on the paper. I don’t find most thing on the newspaper true at all. The only reasons that I read the newspaper are for the sports section and to see if my hockey team is it. My team has been featured twice in the newspaper one was in 2007 when we won the Tournament in the Woods in Groton and the second time when in 2011 when our team won in Waterville Valley. But of course the people who wrote the paper got one of the teams we beat wrong. Instead of Norwood, the authors wrote Newton. I found this mistake terrible. This other time in first grade some of my classmates and I were in the newspaper about school lunches and the healthiness of them.

OctoberEven though my birthday is in

October, I hate this month for a couple reasons but the biggest is Halloween. I stopped going out to get candy after third grade because I was very bored. There was nothing to do really so, I started staying home. Another reason of why I don’t like October is cleaning the leaves in the driveway, it takes forever to get it done and I would rather sit on the couch doing absolutely nothing. There is one upside to the month of October though, the NHL regular season usually starts in the month of October. Well unless there is a lockout, like this year. If there is any lockout, then I hate October completely.

PeopleThere are some people in the world

that I am okay with, like my very best friends and my hockey teammates, see I can deal with them. But there are some people that I don’t like (if you haven’t noticed yet I don’t like a lot of things). The people that I can’t stand are the people who think that they are all cool and such, specifically the people who think they have “swag.” I “met” this person once in Baltimore in a not so friendly way. See it was batting practice in the Orioles Park at Camden Yards and there was a ball coming towards where I was . As I was about to try to catch it, this guy runs me over and I ended up falling on to the brick ground. He didn’t even stop to apologize and all the people around the scene did nothing.

Quincy MarketQuincy Market is where my cousin

works so my family goes down there every once in a while to go see her. Even though there is a lot to do there with all the shops and restaurants there I can’t really connect to. I never go into most of the stores because I find no interest in most of those stores. The only store that I go into is Abercrombie, because that is the store of where my cousin works. But in the store even though I get everything at 40% off I do not buy anything because nothing appeals to me. I will say though, some of the atmosphere on the outside is beautiful. I also like going inside the main Quincy Market building because of all the food they have to offer there. My favorite part is when we leave because it is boring to walk around the same place for a couple of hours.

Real EstateI am really intrigued by real estate

because my ice hockey coach Robert “Dino” Denault is a real estate agent for Century 21. You might see his signs all over the area. Whenever I get free time during practices I always ask him how the house buying market is going and how his business is doing. He would always respond as good or ok, but when I asked him recently he said that the housing market was getting better and that his real estate business was doing very good, so I was glad to hear that. He was actually trying to sell a house on my street, which he eventually did. So I sent my coach a congratulations message about his recent house selling. I also said that I would miss seeing his sign every time that I went by that house.

StreetMy street is probably the weirdest

street in the city of Leominster, I would say this just because of the wide range of personalities. There are people on my street who are very nice and kind and of course are always the mean and grouchy neighbors. But, on my street there once was a drug dealer who lived in a house across the street from mine. I did not know about this until I was told that he got caught by the police. Also on my street, basically, all the houses are the color white. Then there is my house, the one that is completely different. My house has a yellow paint color on the outside, and a very vibrant pink paint color. Around my street, there are a bunch of other streets similar to mine all in numerical order.

TylerI was born into this world on

October 18, 1998 at the UMass Memorial Hospital in Leominster, Massachusetts. My childhood was not the greatest because I had lead poisoning, ran into a copy machine, and fell down an escalator while holding building blocks. I use social media for the most of my time out of school. I mostly tweet on Twitter, but I rarely use my Facebook because it gets myself bored real easily. I am a very avid fan of the Boston University Terriers men’s ice hockey team. My dad and I go to almost every single one of their home games and some of the road games depending on where the team is playing. I love Tim Hortons, which is a quick service restaurant chain. I have only been to one in Buffalo when I was six or seven years old and I would love to go to another again.

Uwe Krupp Uwe Krupp is probably one of the

most inspiring hockey stories ever in the history of the game. He was injured for most of the 1995-1996 NHL season and came back in the Stanley Cup playoffs. In the Stanley Cup finals, he scored the game winning goal in the third overtime to let the Colorado Avalanche win their first Stanley Cup in franchise history. His story really inspired me to comeback after a near concussion, after feeling awful for two weeks, I returned to play in the state championships. Also after receiving an illegal hit from behind and being given a head injury and a neck strain, I remembered Uwe’s journey and came back after only one week after being injured. When I came back though my teammates welcomed me back by saying “I thought you were dead.”

VegetablesWhen I was younger I used to

love eating vegetables in those Gerber jars that were mashed up. I thought that those things were fun to eat as a young child. Now, I don’t eat vegetables all that often mainly because there are almost none of any type of vegetable in my house. Also combined with the fact that I don’t like to eat many types. The only ones that I like are corn, broccoli, and carrots. For some reason, whenever I do eat any vegetable I end up nearly choking. Also going back to that Gerber thing, I really want to try one of those ravioli dishes with the spinach inside.

World JuniorsI always like to watch the Under 20

international teams play in the last week of December and the first week of January. Like the past tournament that was in Ufa, Russia, most games started at 3:00 in the morning, so I woke up at that time because I dedicated myself to watching the games. Someday I wish to play in the World Juniors for the United States of America and win the gold medal and represent my country. I watch the World Junior Championships to see the future talents of tomorrow’s hockey game. Even during to school days after vacation was over I still woke up at 4am in the morning to watch the games. I am very proud to say that I witnessed the game the United States Under 20 hockey team won the gold medal in the 2012-13 World Junior Championship.

X-RayI have had several X-Ray

operations before but the most notable that I can specifically remember are when I had my head related injuries. The first time I had my head checked was in 2009 when I was cross checked to the head. The doctor that treated me in the emergency room said that I couldn’t play for two weeks because of a head injury. After that when, I went back to school the next day I felt very dizzy. My second head injury happened in a rink in Tewksbury, when a player from Cape Ann hit me from behind into the boards with about 1 minute left in the game. I was carried off in an ambulance and when I got to the hospital the X-Ray results came back with me having a head injury and a neck strain.

This is the hospital I went to when I had my second head injury.

#YOLOYOLO, if you haven’t heard it

means You Only Live Once. This is by far the worst saying I have ever heard. But, if you ever see me with some of my friends prancing around in the street I will always scream YOLO at the top of my lungs. I say this phase every time I want to be sarcastic. What I mean by sarcastic I mean act like the cool kids who have all the “swag.” My friends and I always talk about how stupid this phrase is by mocking it like saying “I didn’t use safety scissors! YOLO!”

ZetterbergHenrik Zetterberg is probably

one of my favorite hockey players that ate currently playing right now. He is the captain of the Detroit Red Wings which is one of my favorite professional hockey teams, even though my dad hates them. The reason why I like him is because he is a great player, despite being drafted in the in the seventh round of the NHL Entry Draft. Also, because of his relatively small stature compared to other players like Zdeno Chara who is 6 foot 9 inches. The reason I look up to Henrik Zetterberg is because I am one of the smallest players in my league.