The Story of Nathan Ecker

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Nathan Ecker was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada on November 5th, 2007, into a loving family with his awesome mom and dad who helped him achieve his hockey dream but also an amazing sister, and the world's best dog. He has been lacing up his skates to get out on the ice since he was as young as 3 years old. Not soon after he began playing for the AAA Hamilton Huskies where Nathan quickly impressed and was a star for them until his last season of youth hockey, which was last year. One reason Nathan Ecker’s passing game is as good as it is, is because when he was 8 he was going in to take a shot from the high slot and got hit hard in the head causing a concussion which made him shy away from shooting as he was afraid of getting injured in that fashion again, this caused him to develop his passing, and hockey IQ so he could set people up and avoid contact like that from happening again. Even with the set back from that injury where a lot of people would have chosen to quit Nathan did not and decided to keep going due to a strong love for the game of hockey, his dad who got him into hockey to begin with, and his mentality that causes him to keep pushing to be the best he can. That was not his only injury that set him back during his youth as 5 years later when Ecker was 13 years old, he was caught at a bad angle when he was tripped and he slammed into the boards foot first causing a high ankle sprain on his right ankle which luckily did not serve as a major setback in his career as he made a pretty good recovery thanks in part to him having to wait on the sidelines for a while much to his chagrin due to doctor's orders but once he got back Nathan began playing at the same level he left off at after coming back from the ankle injury, but every now and then Nathan can screw up his ankle for a few days at time as he returned without a fully healed ankle against his doctors best wishes as he could not stand missing out on any more hockey. While in high school Nathan decided to join his school's varsity hockey team on top of his normal hockey team which added a lot more to his schedule, but he was fine with it as it meant more time doing what he loved. Ecker being on multiple teams did cause him to be exhausted from all the work he was putting in on both teams, but he persevered and built up some amazing stamina which allows him to be capable of taking on more ice time during his games. Furthermore, even with his tight schedule Nathan still managed to be a straight A student averaging a 95% through grades 9 and 10 as Nathan is still 16 that means he has this year in grade 11 and next year in grade 12 until he can graduate from high school. Nathan must be extremely popular among the students as a professional hockey player especially among the ladies and he is quite a handsome young man, now with all that said Nathan becoming a professional hockey player has caused him to be forced to drop his high school's team as the workload would be too much. Ecker now is overjoyed to be a part of the Houston Bulls for s93 of the VHLM, he signed for the legendary team as waiver signing along with many others such as Ondrej Vencko, Lucy Leitner, Dylan Boland, a fellow Nathan in Nathan Schwarts, Charles Losfeld, Cody Toland, Deez Nuts, and Filip Zinek. Furthermore, Nathan has been incredibly happy to work with the staff at Houston and is taking their advice to heart to improve his game so he be the best at hockey he possibly can. In his first two games as a Houston Bull Ecker managed to notch one assist in a 6-4 win over the Saskatoon Wild and was kept off the score sheet in a 2-1 shootout loss to the San Diego Marlins. Even though Ecker only has 1pt in two games this season averaging .5 pts a game he is still set to have a great rookie season if he continues developing at the insane pace he currently is developing at, he may also be one of the best offensive threats we will ever see in VHL one day, but we won't know that unless someone reading this has a time machine. In Conclusion, Nathan has had to put in a lot of hard work and overcome many obstacles that others may have not had the strength to overcome just to make to this point where he has a long way to go in his hockey career.

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