Emerson Jr. Review

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JR Review

 

Markus wasn’t ever really interested in hockey at a young age. St. Louis is better known as a baseball town. Being exposed to baseball at a young age and almost everyone in town being big supporters it was only natural for him to pick it up. He began playing baseball at a young age and played until he was 12. For a few months, he didn't really know what he wanted to do until he saw the VHL finals on T.V.. He began watching and grew an interest in the sport and asked his parents if he could try skating sometime. Eventually they took him and he was horrible at skating. Even after quite some time he still wasn't very quick and struggled to keep up. Determined to give hockey a shot he decided being a regular skater would not be the best fit for him and became a goalie.

 

His baseball skills really helped him in the net since he already had very good hand eye coordination and was used to catching flying objects. The net seemed like a perfect fit so he continued to play until highschool. His Highschool had a relatively new and I might add bad hockey team. It wasn't very hard for him to join and with him being the brick wall he was in net the team found relatively great success. Not enough to win anything but enough to be noticed and respected. 

 

Now that Markus was 18 and graduated highschool he didn't have many options for hockey other than college. He wasn't good enough to be entered straight into any pro draft so pretty much any university that would take him would be enough. He landed in a decent hockey program but he was somewhat disappointed in his freshman year when he was riding the bench behind the senior goalie. His sophomore year would be the turning point in his life because he was granted the starting position for his college and had one of the greatest season anyone had ever had at that school or even their conference.

 

This success caught the attention of some scouts and especially the scouts for the VHLM team The San Diego Marlins. Markus had two years left in school but with all the talk surrounding him, he had to make a decision to leave school early and take a chance in the VHLM or to continue college and hope he does well enough to get drafted. After a lot of thinking the moment to decide his fate approached when San Diego offered him a spot on the team. At 20 years old he dropped out of college and began his career as a pro goalie in the VHLM. 

 

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