Scoring A Goal This Spicy As A Freshman At The Minnesota Hockey Tournament Is The Quickest Way To Become The Coolest Kid At School
I would imagine that every kid who grows up playing hockey in Minnesota dreams about one day playing in The Tourney. It's the one week in your career that you get to be a rockstar. Televised games, you get the player intros, the fans in the building are rabid. Your dreams growing up are to one day make it to the NHL, and to play in Minnesota State High School Hockey Tournament. Maybe even score a pretty sick goal at some point while playing in the tourney, too.
Well this little fella right here from Dodge County didn't waste any time making a couple of those dreams come true. You score a goal like this as a freshman playing on this big of a stage? You own the school now. Those are the rules. It doesn't matter if your mommy still has to drop you off at school in the morning because you're not old enough to drive yourself yet. You walk into that building and you run the place.
Some older kids trying to give you a hard time at a party this weekend? You pull up this clip on your Instagram, and watch them cower away to sit in the corner by themselves. Teachers giving you a hard time about missing assignments? You pull up this clip and tell them to get lost.
And sure, it wasn't the most consequential goal ever. It turned a 4-0 game into a 4-1 game, and Dodge County is now playing in the consolation bracket. But nobody is going to remember the score of that game 15 years from now when you come back to town for Thanksgiving. Everybody is just going to remember how nasty that goal was.
Sidenote: 47 points in 29 games as a freshman. Not a big deal.