Ok it is with great pleasure that I have officially been offered a training camp contract in the MAHL. Now I understand that is it the MAHL and it doesn't pay great money, but it's pro so I'm kinda excited.
So here's the story so far. and it starts last summer. So last summer I was invited to the rookie tryout camp for the Memphis Riverkings of the Central Hockey League. I had a great tryout and was able to get some great contacts out of it... like an agent. They asked if I would be interested in attending the main training camp which I declined since I had one more year left of college. Well as luck (or bad luck in my case) would have it, I would start out my senior year great... then suffer a high ankle sprain midway through and have to sit out the REST OF MY SENIOR YEAR
anyway, I thought about throwing in the towel cause I did not enjoy my college hockey experience at all, all four years.
Oh by the way before college I played 2 years of junior, junior B in connecticut, and tier 2 junior A in ontario, then I got hurt my last year of junior and ended up playing ACHA div 1 at Niagara University.
ok back to the story.... so i decided to try and see what could come of this year, and since i still had my contacts I started sending some e-mails to them, well mainly the sports agent who could help me. I put together a tape, and put it on youtube, then was invited to a rookie tryout/draft weekend. So as a precaution I sent an e-mail to all the coaches of the league along with my youtube clip and one coach replied and said he knew my agent and would talk to him.... the next thing i know is he was offering me a training camp contract before the tryout weekend. I'm pretty excited and it just makes me feel happy that i didn't actually give up,even though it is the MAHL, I've played against a few of those guys in various tourny's and some of them actually have legit skill. plus they have a great call up rate so i think i'm in a good spot for future plans.