Junior Review: Lexi Glass (The Estonian Princess)

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Junior Review: Lexi Glass (The Estonian Princess)

 

There is a notion out there that a "Girly Girl" should not be a hockey player but with a recent influx of female players into the VHL, we are seeing that narrative changed a bit with players such as Cinnamon Block or Venus Thightrap starting to pave the way for female players in the league as a whole. The next one to step on to the ice is none other than Estonian princess, Alexis 'Lexi' Glass, who has spent time both as a hockey player and as a musician and model with her truly being a do it all female. While many people on the outside see Lexi as just a pretty face on skates, her actual self and her game reveal so much more about her.

 

Lexi has always been tough from a young age, growing up in the capital city of Talinn, Estonia which is known as a tough nosed baltic city. She was always into sports from a young age, playing games like team handball, basketball, and her favorite, ice hockey. Lexi is a natural on a pair of skates and has been known to don the figure skates from time to time to work on her dexterity on the ice, something that others in professional hockey have not had the opportunity to work on. Lexi had played youth hockey from the age of 7 and while she was never the biggest or strongest on the ice, she insisted on playing on co-ed teams or in more general men's leagues for the competition was much higher in the Baltic states and the country of Estonia. This gave her a leg up on others as she gained a toughness others did not have and helped gained her way onto the female national team of Estonia from the age of 13.

 

Lexi got most of her experience playing with the female national hockey team and was considered the number one prospect coming out of the Baltics and had been scouted by teams in both the SHL and the VHL multiple times throughout her young career. Out of all the female hockey players in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, Glass was the number one and many thought she had the opportunity to compete not only at the highest level in female professional hockey but in any professional hockey league, even ones dominated by male presence. 

 

After spending time on a semi-pro team in local Talinn, playing against other Eastern European teams, mainly in the Baltics, where she scored on average about a goal per game, she decided to take her talents to the global league that is the VHL. She is known for a fierce shot and her outstanding skating ability and will have the chance to prove herself on the world's biggest stage.

 

She will be playing out the season for cup hopeful Mississauga in Canada and after that, who knows, this is only the beginning for the Estonian Princess.