Yun Chiang An Unlikely Hockey Player

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Yun Chiang: A Player from an Unlikely Location

Yun Chiang was born in Chaohu, China to his parents Feng Chiang and Li Chiang. His parents had enough money that they were able to travel the world, and his father’s favorite location to visit was Vancouver, Canada. This love for Vancouver led to his family visiting Canada often enough that Yun would begin to love watching hockey. One year he asked his parents to buy him hockey gear so he could play hockey. Yun Chiang put on skates for the first time when he was 7. His mother tells the story of how he couldn’t even get up for the first two days, but as time went on his skating got better and in just a week he was waddling around the ice with a stick in his hands. Chiang brought his new skates and all his gear his father bought him during that trip and he would take them to his local ice rink.

In Chauhu, the ice rink was nearly entirely for speed skating and figure skating, but after getting a group of 20 kids together Yun was able to convince the owners of the facility to allow hockey on the ice for 4 hours every week. Yun would never miss single minute that he was able to play hockey on that ice and the more he played the better he got. When Yun was 12, a Chinese youth hockey team invited him to play as they visited Mongolia for a regional tournament. In his first competitive game, Yun scored 3 goals and 2 assists proving that he may just have what it takes to play professional hockey.

After hearing of Yun’s success in Mongolia, his parents decided that he should spend a season in Sweden in order to play at a higher level just to see how well he could perform. Chiang spend his 15th birthday in Sweden playing in a youth league, but he was able to win the award for most goals in the season with 41 in 80 games. Yun Chiang may just be a professional hockey player.

Soon after coming back to China, Chiang played for the Chinese Men’s Youth Hockey team and traveled the world playing national teams. The Chinese team was historically terrible, but Chiang was a diamond in the rough throughout his tenure with the team. In an effort to increase Chinese hockey, the Chinese government gave permission to the best 3 players in the CMYHT to play in the VHL and the VHL affiliate leagues. Chiang waited a short time before he would get on that plane and move to the US and sign with the Miami Marauders.

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That’s my teammate!!!! Good stories, it’s well written love the atmosphere with Yun Chiang parents. But I’m intrigued to now more about what relation that Yun have with his parents. 8/10. Great job teammate!!