Em Em Flex Junior Review

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Em Em Flex was born in the city of Kiev in the Ukraine, to a professional international hockey player and his figure skating wife. At a young age Flex showed great skill at hockey, mostly though as a goalie. Always the biggest on his team playing in net was a natural fit for him even though the equipment seemed small.  As he improved his parents decided to buy him goalie equipment as it appeared playing the position was going to become a long-term thing.  Flex quickly rose through the ranks of Youth Hockey and Junior Hockey in the Ukraine putting up unreal numbers and usually being a lock for most goaltending awards in his leagues.  It certainly appeared at a young age that Flex could have a very long career as a goalie.  

 

In order to advance his career as much as possible his parents sent him to live in Banff, Alberta to study and learn at the world-famous Banff hockey Academy.  He quickly wowed scouts in North America and plenty of offers came in to secure his services at most levels all over the country.  Because he made his decision late and ultimately decided on the Victory Hockey League he was subject do waivers in its minor league.

 

The Miami Marauders ended up with his rights for his first season in the minor league system.  Due to a computing error it was found that Flex would have to play one more season of Junior Hockey before joining Miami.  So he ended up signing a one-year contract with the Edmonton Oil Kings of the Western Hockey League where he took the league by storm winning three straight rookie of the month awards.  During the regular season started 54 games in that winning forty-five of them.  He ended up with a 1.95 goals-against average and a .941 save percentage.  During the playoffs Flex helped the Oil Kings to win Western Hockey League Championship only losing 2 games along the way.  They travelled to Moose Jaw for the Canadian hockey League's Memorial Cup which they also won convincingly not losing a single game.  He also only allowed three goals in the entire tournament which won him Top Goaltender of the tournament as well as MVP of the Memorial Cup.  Adding to his trophy case he picked up the Top Goaltender , Top Rookie and MVP of the Western Hockey League, becoming the first player to win all three in the same season.  After that he quickly went to practice with Mauraders and played every preseason game for Miami.  The coach showed so much excitement over having the youngster in goal that he proclaimed to be the starter for every game of their Minor League season.

 

We now look to the future to see what is in store for this promising rookie