Ice Guardians Page #2

Synopsis: On-ice enforcers struggle to rise through the professional ranks of the world's most prestigious hockey league, only to be confronted with a new found fight for the existence of the role itself.
Director(s): Brett Harvey
Production: Score G Productions
  6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Year:
2016
108 min
412 Views


This is easy.

As soon as I did that,

that changed everything

I just had a coach there.

He's like, you know,

I think you could actually...

Have a shot at bein'

a pro hockey player.

I'd never heard that before.

It became real.

It became that guys were playing

hard and playing for jobs

and playing for positions.

You had your defensive guys,

your offensive guys

Everybody specialized in something.

They said y'know,

you're gonna play in the NHL.

It might take ya ten years.

But you're gonna hafta fight

every step of the way.

And I said, you know what?

I'll do it.

Even just to be mentioned

in the breath of you might

be getting drafted.

It's like...

You're like "Wow, this

might be a reality!"

That's the time

agents start knocking on your door

and people telling you what might happen

and talking to scouts and

getting letters in the mail.

I remember I waited

by the phone all day.

I didn't actually go to the draft

because I was a later draft pick.

And I got the call from the

Philadelphia Flyers.

And I remember the first thing

my dad said.

Well you're their type of

player, that's for sure.

I signed a pro contract when I was 19

and I thought it was all...

It was all "up" from there.

And then I realized that was

only the start of the battle.

You have a very short... amount of time

to show what you have.

And if you're not

kind of... pegged, it's...

it's gone in an instant.

Every NHL team has an AHL team

that they're affiliated with.

The difference between

the AHL and the NHL,

the AHL being the feeder system

for the NHL.

Guys get called up

and down all the time.

It's a free-market economy.

I was always competin' for jobs.

Never had a "for-sure" thing.

Just, fightin' anybody I could.

Just to, just tryin' to get a shot.

It was four years in the minors,

250-something games.

No call-ups.

The minors were actually

a lot rougher than the NHL, I believe.

I call it "The Jungle."

And the jungle is full of

all sorts of specimens

and like, you never know

what's gonna getcha!

These guys were tough and

I mean they were tough.

I was fighting these guys twice a night.

For an entire season.

Guys that get sent down from the NHL,

people hone in on that.

It's almost like, there's

blood in the water.

It's like omigod, he's down.

If I take him out then they'll see me

and then I'll get my chance,

I'll get my opportunity

If you don't do your job,

and they don't see you progressing,

then when they need someone to call up,

they're not gonna pull your name.

Once that call comes

that you're makin' it,

it's definitely one of the

best days of your life

because you know that

you're gonna get a shot

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