Pearson takes on veteran role

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For almost a decade, Alex Pearson has been a staple on the Prague phantoms roster. He’s been the team captain twice, and an alternate in all but one of his seasons, he’s a born leader and the heart and soul of the team. 
 

 

After this current season, Pearson said he plans to retire. He has played all career games in a phantom uniform, he was one of the first picks in their inaugural expansion draft. He was drafted as a fast, high scoring flashy sniping forward, but ended up being a more smart, well rounded scoring playmaker once he transferd his game to the VHL. This season has been a different role for Pearson, as he’s taking on the third line Center/Teaching role in the team. He stays late in practice more then once, showing the youngsters how to win faceoffs and forecheck, something he has been skilled at his entire career. 
 

The phantoms are a divided team in terms of age, they have a lot of young players coming up to form the new core, and we’re starting to watch the old core fall apart. Pearson has expressed his excitement in the young players coming up. 
“I think we’re in really good shape, we have young talented prospects like John Leclair II, RKG, Dan Baille Jr and the players in the minors like The Blob, TJ St Louis, Secel Kellar and a few others, they’re all really skilled, and I think Woody McPine is a star in the making, even though it’s my last season I feel like the next few years we’re gonna be a really, Really good team. Jason has done a Terrific job.”

 

The phantoms are in a bit of a core shift this season, but they’ve been in a bit of a a hot streak recently as they hope to climb into the playoffs and continue to compete.