Claimed:Interview with Lights Bokan

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 Lights Bokan is here to join us today at Team 1200, Ottawa's

top sports radio station and we currently have her 

in studio. At twenty-seven, Lights got her big break when she was

presented the opportunity to be a future VHLM player, and possibly

live out her child hood dreams of being a Victory Hockey League star. The

offensive defense women is often criticized for her lack of defensive skills and

her very measly size, she stands at just five foot foot and weights just over 110lbs. However,she fought through the hate and adversity, even after being an early cut from the East Coast Hockey League's Reading Royals and even a healthy scratch for the Central Hockey League's Quad City Mallards. For the next half hour, we're going to talk to Light and ask her some questions regarding her future and some of her past.

 

 

John Rodenburg: First off, we want to thank you for joining us today. We know you're very

busy prepping for the draft. Tell us what it's like and what is going through your head.

 

Lights Bokan: Excitement. I live for these moments honestly. A bit of nerves of course,

but I take that as a good sign. A little nerves motivate you. Or at least, they motivate me!

 

Steve Warne: You say nerves motivate you, and you certainly had a lot of doubters

in the past. Explain to us how you overcame the negatively.

 

LB: Meh, it doesn't bother me very much. I just think 'another reason to

prove everyone wrong' but I try and block it out anyway.

 

JR: Does it sometimes feel surreal you're here? About to be drafted into the Victory

Hockey League and all that?

 

LB: For sure. I look at all the fans and fancy analyzes ready to crack you open, and

I sometimes sit down and think, 'I'm just Lights... I'm not an all star, I'm a girl from a 

small town in Ontario who had a few dreams and chose to chase them before they left me.

 

SW: It certainly was a long, hard road for you. You get cut from the Reading Royals

and you have two options pretty much - take a contract with the Central Hockey League's

Quad City Mallards or head back home and try to survive. What's your thought

process?

 

LB: My husband, Beau Bokan, wanted me desperately to come back home. He is an

aspiring rock artist and he wants us to be a real family and figure something out. I

wanted the same, I really did, but then I received a phone call from the Quad

City Mallards saying I was offered a spot on the team. I jumped to the

chance. I didn't think much what it would mean for my family and I. I acted out

of impulsive, I tend to do that.

 

JR: Does your husband tell you that?

 

LB: All the time. (Lights laughs a little bit remembering her husband and family,

warning her to quit being so wild and gutsy.)

 

 

 

 

JR: So, do you have any preference for VHLM teams? The Ottawa Lynx maybe?!

 

LB: I can't say I do! I would like to stay in North America because of family and all that, and even

better, I would love to stay in Canada, but if that's not fate, it won't happen. I'm open to 

playing anywhere and don't demand trades because of an noncompetitive team. 

 

 

SW: Lastly, if you could compare yourself to any current National Hockey League player,

who would it be and why? What strengths do you share with such player and what 

weaknesses do you share?

 

LB: Erik Karlsson, hands down. He can make some pretty bone headed

plays, I know because I'm a Sens fan, but he also brings speed and skill

and is able to be decent defensively. Stepping up in big moments

is something we both do well.

 

JR: It seems as if our time is all out! Thanks for chatting with us, Lights. We

​appreciate your time!

 

LB: Thanks boys! Take it easy! (hangs up)

 

SW: Next up, Jack Carter, the writer of 'Why the Lynx Suck and How they can be

Fixed' will join us and discuss the up coming season for the uh, struggling Ottawa Lynx.

Stay tuned!

 

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Edited April 26, 2014 by off the rails

[Higgins 3,618]

Good start man

[Will 4,660]

Content: 3/3 

I noticed from your intro topic that you played here before, so first off welcome back! It looks like your excited to be here (based on your ms, XM Radio, etc) and that is great. Hopefully you CAN stay active this time! As with any new player, interviews are the easiest way to tell everyone who your player is and what they are all about. From this, we learned that although Lights has struggled to overcome the people who have doubted, she got past it and ready to prove them wrong. Fairly good questions. 

Grammar: 2/2 

 

analyzes = analysis

 

acted out of impulsive = acted out of impulse

 

Appearance: 1/1 

Looks good. Only think I would suggest in the future is to do something to differentiate between Lights and the interviewers. Just makes it easier to read. 

Overall: 6/6

Edited April 26, 2014 by Draper

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