Growing up in Russia I started playing hockey and I fell in love with that game. After school I would always go out to the frozen pond and play with all my friends. I began to get pretty good at hockey from playing every day, that's when I started thinking I want to go pro in hockey. My uncle, who played professional hockey in Russia, and I would always talk late at night and fantasize about how great it would be if I could join the league when I grew up. I used him as my motivation to practice every day. One day my mom told me we're going to move to America so I thought my dreams of playing professional hockey with my uncle were over but in reality moving to the America was for the better even if I did not think so at the time. We moved