Hello hockey fans.
I'm filing this month's diary after the CHL/NHL Top Prospects Game in Hamilton, Ontario. Our team lost, but I had so much fun. I was excited to be here, playing on the big stage against the other best hockey players from the Canadian Hockey League. It's nice because this is a once-in-your-life game, so it's really nice to see all the guys all over Canada and from the different leagues. It has been great to get to know them too.
I never received as much media attention as I did this week at this game. I enjoy it and it's nice, but it's a responsibility. I'm usually asked the same questions. They ask me the kind of player I am and how life was as a hockey player growing up in Austria ... no one knows anything about hockey in Austria, so I understand that.
It was great to see defenseman Thimo Nickl (No. 51 among North American skaters in NHL Central Scouting's midterm rankings) from Drummondville here at the game -- we actually had a few shifts together playing on the same team (Team Red). He's from Austria and we played on the National Team together up until we were 16. Thimo lives about six hours from me in Klagenfurt, Austria**
