TPT: The NHLer’s Guide to China

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From: The Players' Tribune > Sports > Hockey
The NHLer’s Guide to China
Sep 13 2016
Matt Beleskey
Left Winger / Boston Bruins

Want to hear a joke? A guy from Southern Ontario goes to China to teach ice hockey.

That’s it. That’s the joke. Except that’s exactly what happened to me.

First things first, I knew very little about China before I went.

O.K., nothing. I knew nothing about it.

China? Man, I’m from Barrie, Ont. I mean, my only connection was Chinese food — which is way different in China, by the way. (But more on that later.)

So when Bruins p.r. director Eric Tosi approached my teammate David Pastrnak and me, as well as former Boston goalie Andrew Raycroft, about heading over this summer, it caught me a bit off guard

“You want us to go to China to represent the Bruins?” I said.

“Yes.”

“To teach kids hockey?”

“Yes.”

“For free?”

I’ve always been a spontaneous guy. What the heck — why not? I just had one last condition.

“Can my wife come? She’s always wanted to see China.”

“Yes.”

(Man, I love the Bruins.)

Wheels up. Bring it, China. ...


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