Armani Calamari's motivation

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Story does contain elements of family passing away

Armani Calamari is quite a unique name for quite the unique player with a very bittersweet story. A tall Center from Toronto Canada, he was born to Jay and Violet Calamari and was originally born in Alberta before his family decided to move to Toronto to be closer to family living in New York. Growing up with this name wasn't always easy as bullies would make fun if him for his last name and call him an octopus. As he was a tall gangly kid at that point he was an easy target before his eventual growth spurt.. But eventually he got some friends that didn't judge him for his name when he started to get into youth hockey where he was originally a goalie before transitioning to center during his second season.

Jay was a programmer and engineer and mostly worked on several business servers. Violet was a head nurse for a local hospital. This meant they were all pretty wealthy though Armani was never able to get a sibling thanks to Violet's worsening health. She had an extremely bad heart condition that she took a lot of medicine for and often was worried that her time was limited. That is why she tried to take her family on many vacations across Canada and the USA to see various sporting events as she wanted to make sure she spent as much time as she could with her family. She also supported Armani in his hockey pursuits and tried to see as many games as she could.

He became a big star on his youth hockey team but life at home was another story when his mother suddenly began to get extremely ill. They all hoped for the best but unfortunately but the worst came when Violet passed away due to several heart complications. This made him unable to enjoy hockey for quite a while before Jay was finally able to get through to him that he should continue playing in her memory and that she would have not wanted him to quit because he can't get over her passing. This motivated him and his team won a local youth league with him scoring the game winning overtime goal.

Armani would continue his hockey dreams and would become quite the well known player. He would get a tattoo of his late mom's name on his arm as well. Jay would eventually remarry bit it took some time for him to get into a position where he could. He still works at his engineering job but was a frequent sight at his son's games. Eventually Armani got into the waivers program in the VHL and signed a free agency deal with the Philadelphia Reapers, this being the first time he had ever lived outside of the great white north. But he is ecstatic for the opportunity to show his stuff and is also looking forward to eating some Philadelphia cheesesteaka again after tasting them on a vacation once. He is also definitely looking forward to being a part of the Reapers championship push.