James Pearson Bio

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 Early Life

 

James Gadget Pearson was born in Toronto, Ontario-as his father was preparing to fly to San Diego after beginning his own VHLM career, He was instantly drawn to the sport of hockey, Naturally as he was watching his father’s career take off. His father would take him to team practices, and he quickly became talented on a pair of skates and was instantly the best player on his minor hockey teams. His other interest was cooking. He loved making his family meals and preparing weekly lunches for them as well, he gained notoriety with his delicious home cooked meals as well as with his hockey skill. His youth was mostly spent in Prague where he watched his fathers games and became more and more interested in the sport, quickly winning vacations accolades at a young age, people often joked that st such a young age he was already a better player than his father.

 

His obsession with hockey didn’t end on the ice, as he showed his passion for the sport in school projects, showcasing his knowledge of the sport, and sharing stories of his tales meeting players his dad played with. He spent most of his adolescence at school in Prague, so he’s quite fluent in Czech. After his father’s retirement the fam moved back to his fathers home town in New Brunswick, Canada and Pearson continued his hockey training and career there. He stayed in contact with several friends from Prague and vacationed there several times during the summer, as his father visited old teammates and management. Pearson also trained with VHL level training during those offseasons as the training team would help his son as a favour to his father, and it seems to have payed off.

 

 

Hockey Career 

 

 

Pearson played for his provincial bat team starting as young as 11, bringing home 5 Gold, 4 Silver and 1 Bronze, His total stat line for those games looked like GP:42 G:35 A:27 P:62

He showed his strong upper body strength along the boards and extremely proficient skating, catching the attention of VHLM scouts at a young age who had also watched his father. He was a quiet but friendly teammate according to past players, he was more of a leader on the ice and preferred to lead by example, he wore the C on 2 occasions, both for his provincial team in 6 game tournaments. He continued his Hockey career in highschool hockey and preformed exceptionally well there as well. Wearing an A for his entire career, the teams Captain, was the coach's son. Pearson won 3 championships in his 4 year highschool career there, and set 3 records for his school as well. The records were Most Hat Tricks, Most Goals, and most power play goals. His prowess on the hockey team made him popular in highschool, but he avoided the crowds and preferred to study and stay in the schools home economics room where he could unwind and cook his own lunched and pregame meals. He was such a friendly student teachers gave him unsupervised access to the room. He made plenty of friends with his homemade ravioli dishes as well as brownies (Not the fun kind).

 

He was a strong student in other subject as well, Scoring high 80’s and 90’s for most of his report cards, making sure his grades were always high enough to stay a member of the school’s team. He was interested in History in his senior year, and ended up winning 1st prize at a history fair at his school, and later scoring 4 goals in a rivalry game for his schools team. He spent most of his weekends at local ice rinks his dad had payed to rent so he could practice his skills more, and spent various nights throughout the week at the gym when he wasn’t doing homework. In one of the first games of his senior year Pearson took an elbow to the side of his head, causing a concussion and some whiplash to him, he ended up missing all up 13 games that year, but he returned for the playoffs and led his team to a fun championship before graduating.

 

 

After graduating he spent most of the summer training, preparing for the upcoming VHLM season, but he also spent weekends working at his local diner, wiping tables and sweeping floors and getting a taste for the real world as well. Saving every penny he made so he could afford some shopping while living in the luxury city of Las Vegas. Starting his VHLM career Pearson was in involved in some minor scandal but it was quickly resolved, but one has to wonder if it has affected his on ice performance, as Pearson has struggled all season long on a Vegas team that could definitely use some higher production numbers.