Player Spotlight- Aaron Shanks, News, 2005s / U16 Team Black, 2020-2021 (Lambton Jr. Sting AAA Hockey )

𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒚?

Started skating when I was 2 but started playing when I was 3.

𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒐 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚 𝒉𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒚?

Watching it as a kid and seeing my favourite people on the TV and being able to have a chance to play the game I love as a job

𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚? 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒆𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏?

What I like about playing center is you are always involved in the play every inch of the ice. You have to be a good skater which I feel I am to play all 200 feet as a good centerman. No, I haven’t always played center. From Novice to peewee I was a left winger but enjoyed the center position more.

𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒕𝒉?

I believe my greatest strength would be my skating ability or my hockey IQ. Knowing where to be at the right time to make my team better and getting there with lots of speed.

𝑰𝒇 𝑰 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒄𝒐𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒔𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒐𝒏, 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒚?

One thing I need to work on is my puck support in the D end, being able to support the defence man behind our net to have a clean breakout.

𝑯𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒚? 𝒊𝒇 𝒔𝒐, 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒕?

I received the athlete award at school, and 1st overall at city meet track and field.

𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒊𝒏𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝒀𝑶𝑼𝑹 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒚?

Greatest invention for me would be SpaceX’s reusable rocket. Elon Musk believes in the next 30 years humans can live on Mars and this rocket may be the one to bring us, and that is really fascinating to me.

𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝟯 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿... 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆?

If I could invite 3 people to a dinner it would have to be Wayne Gretzky, Elon Musk, and Lebron James. To be able to talk about what it takes to be the best at a sport like Gretzky and Lebron were would be something id love to hear from them. And with Elon Musk, I’d love to hear about his goals with his spaceX company and hear what he has to say about space.

𝑰𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒈𝒐 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆 𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚, 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 1 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆?

I would go back to December 31st, 2019 and stop the man in China before he ate the bat which started the coronavirus so we would have a normal hockey season and life would be Normal.

𝗣𝗿𝗲-𝗴𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹?

Pasta night before, morning stretch, smoothie with breakfast, some video games, tape and wax stick, and visualization