RJ Lloris Biography [2/2]

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Name: RJ Lloris

Born: April 27, 2001

Place of Birth: Gatineau, Quebec

Nationality: Canadian/French

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Early life

Rene Junior ‘RJ’ Lloris is a French Canadian hockey player born April 27, 2001 in Gatineau, Quebec to Rene Lloris and Melanie Reid. He is an only child. His father was a ar mechanic who would travel to different houses and shops to fix cars and restore old ones, his mother was a nurse. In 2004 RJ and his parents move to Toronto, Ontario to be closer to their family. It was in Toronto that RJ was put into a figure skating class with his only cousin, Rachel. He didn’t actually learn how to fully skate until he was just over 6, he was a great skater, but could never do many of the spins and tricks. He moved around a lot staying with various family members because his father traveled to several small towns in the Greater Toronto Area for work. At the age of 11 he moved back to Quebec, now living in the town of Trois-Rivières. In Trois-Rivières he stopped taking figure skating and picked up ice hockey. He excelled at hockey because of his skating, and in the summer of 2015 he joined the QBAAA playing for his first triple A team.

 

High school

When he started high school it was clear that he was going to struggle, even with being in Quebec for the last 4 years, his French was not the greatest. Luckily he was able to get his work done, and at the end of the day he always had one of the many local rinks to go to and play the game he started to love. With him not being fully fluent in French and a lot of his time being dedicated to playing hockey he barely passed grade 9. His parents were okay with his marks being like this, they knew Lloris was not the greatest student to begin with, and they would rather him put his time into something he was good at and enjoyed doing. In October of his grade 12 year RJ Lloris and his family were struck by tragedy, his father, Rene Lloris, had died, distraught by the passing of his father, RJ was motivated to do as best as he could possibly do on the ice, and his game improved greatly, his grades however, did not. While this made his marks drop even more it motivated him to dominate on ice, it was after his father’s death when he made a big change to his two-way game and decided to start playing more offensively minded. With a passing mark in only one of his classes, Lloris made the decision against most of his close family’s will, other than his mother’s, to cut his last high school year short and drop out to fully focus on hockey.

 

His Hockey Career

Ever since he was 12, Lloris has loved to play hockey, from the moment he first picked up a stick to singing in the VHLM, Lloris has loved the game. When he was 12 he got his father to talk his mother into letting him join a rec-league. He was a better skater than the other players, but was one of the worst at everything else, but as his game improved he was able to join the QBAAA and played in his first organized league game in November 2015. Despite his smaller size he played a more defensive game because his puck skills were still quite lacking, he got his first assist early on, but it took him until the end of April 2016 to score his first goal. In the summer of 2016 he continued to practice with the puck and was noticed by many teams in higher skilled leagues, he started in the QMAAA the next October. As his game continued to improve he had to decide between being a two-way forward or taking a more offensive role on the wing. It was after the end of his first practice with the QMJHL in October 2018 when he changed he made the decision to change his game entirely. A breakout year in the Q with 25 goals in 35 games led him to being picked up by the Las Vegas Aces of the VHLM.

 

His Father’s Death

It was in the middle of October of 2018, when Lloris was 17, that he was hit with the terrible news of his father’s death. RJ had just gotten home from hockey practice when his mother called him from the hospital, Lloris rushed there, but by the time he’d got there it had been too late. His father was killed in a car accident, he was test driving a car that had just come in to the shop he’d been working at since moving back to Quebec when the brakes failed and he had a head on collision with another driver, the other driver did not survive either. Obviously RJ was destroyed by this news, his father was the one who talked his mother into letting him play hockey in the first place, he drove RJ to practice and games before RJ could take himself, with his father, RJ wouldn’t be playing the game he loved so much. RJ did not attend school until the middle of the November, in that time he focused on hockey, he wanted to make his dad proud. It was at this time that he went from being an average two-way forward to an all star scorer. Ever since his father’s death RJ looks to the top left of any hockey rink he steps into, in hopes his dad is watching.

 

Family

 RJ Lloris has no siblings, and very few close family members, his grandparents on both his father and mother’s sides had only 3 children combined, which is surprising given his parents were born in the 1960s. His father, Rene, was born in 1968, in France and came over to Canada in the 80s staying in Gatineau, Quebec, which is where he met RJ’s mother, Melanie. Melanie was born in 1969 in Hamilton, Ontario, Melanie was on vacation in Quebec when she met Rene in a hotel lobby. Even though they had trouble communicating effectively they both saw the connection they had. They got married in 1991 and stayed in Gatineau, the place they met, until 2004, 3 years after they had RJ. Because he has no siblings, RJ did not talk to many people until he was 5 and he and his cousin Rachel started to play at each other’s houses. Rachel was born the same year as RJ, 2001, because of there being no age difference, they had little trouble being friends, in fact they were best friends until RJ moved back to Quebec.

 

Present Day

Currently Lloris is living in Henderson, Nevada, just outside of Las Vegas. He continues to improve his play everyday and is hoping he will be able to be drafted into the VHL in the season 67 draft.

 

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idk how good it is, and it's kind of formatted like a Wikipedia article.

Edited May 17, 2019 by RJMW

[Greg_Di 942]

Review: Great Bio, Great Length. I liked the backstory, really shows that type of person RJ is. I would add some more pictures  and maybe fix a few errors (e.g " singing in the VHLM ", this should of been signing in the VHLM, unless he had a career singing the anthem ). Well done!

[VanCanWin 180]

Review: Great backstory for this bio! Definitely get a good feel for his life growing up and how he transitioned into hockey and eventually the VHL.  

A few sentences should have had periods where there were commas as they were multiple sentences merged into one but the bio has good flow to it so still an easy read.

Good job!