NHL Connect ID
smgbelieve
Description
Born and raised in Niagara Falls, NY. Lived there my whole life until moving to SC in 2003. I’ve gone back to school and just finished work for my Bachelor’s degree. I’m married with a 3 year old son. I love hockey, and have since I was a little kid growing up watching it on television. It doesn’t matter to me what teams are playing, I’ll watch hockey over just about anything else. Got to go to the 2007-2008All-Star game! It was absolutely awesome!!
Favorite NHL Team
New York Rangers
Favorite Sports/Teams
Rangers, Sharks, Sabres, Avalanche, Predators, Penguins, Flames. Essentially every team except Toronto.
Favorite Players
All goalies, especially Don Edwards and John Davidson, my idols growing up. Also Patrick Roy, Mike Richter, Nabakov, to name a few. And Gretzky, Lemieux, Howe, Mess, Bourque, Sakic, Leetch, Crosby, Ovie, Trottier, Bossy, Hawerchuck, Lafontaine, Bill Hajt, Mike Ramsey, Reijo Rutsalainen, and Nick Fotiu, to name some non goalies.
Music
Artists – Michael W. Smith, Petra, Ray Stevens, the Newsboys, Amy Grant, DC Talk, Geoff Moore & the Distance, Don Francisco, Steve Grace, Rich Mullins, Halo, Jason Upton, and many, many others. Genres- everything from easy listening (instrumental, Roger Whittaker) to classical, to bagpipes, to jazz, to country to rock, to some rap. I don’t do well with heavy metal, and some rap, but otherwise, pretty much all styles are okay with me. I don’t like vulgarity in music though.
Books
My favorite magazines – World Magazine, and The Hockey News. Books- the Bible, mostly I read authors – some of my favorites are C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia and Space trilogy, Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, anything by Steven Lawhead, especially his Dragon King trilogy, Heroes Among Us by former Congressman Jim Ryun, The Last Disciple/The Last Sacrifice, anything by J. Oswald Sanders, Joel Rosenburg, George McDonald, Michael Phillps, T. Davis Bunn, Og Mandino, Robert Whitlow, R.C. Sproul, Alton Gansky, Erwin Lutzer, G.K. Chesterton, C.H. Spurgeon, The Cross Centered Life by C.J. Mahaney, Endurance by Alfred Lansing, good biographies (for me this entails those of Ronald Reagan, Tom Landry, and a myriad of others), The Rangers by Brian McFarlane, A Canadian Saturday Night: Hockey and the Culture of a Country by Andrew Podnieks, anything about Colonial/Revolutionary War, or Civil War America, books about old fire apparatus, and way too many more to list here.
Movies
1776, The Court Jester, Miracle, Ladder 49, Backdraft, Glory, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Star Wars (All 6 of them), Amazing Grace, Spaceballs, Robin Hood Men in Tights, The Man Who Knew Too Little, Wrongfully Accused, Far & Away, Little Big League, Luther, Trapped in Paradise, Facing the Giants, Forest Gump, Only the Lonely, Coming to America, Major League, Slap Shot, Get Smart Again, Ben Hur, In the Good Old Summertime, A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum, Sergeant York, Mystery Alaska, Deep Impact, K-9, & the old television series Emergency and SWAT, to name a few.
Other interests
firefighting, reading, politics, music, spending time with my family…







TXHockeyCow...
Oct 03, 2008
Hi Shawn
I’m so happy for your news today…I hope you have a great weekend my friend
princesssha...
Sep 29, 2008
busy
same here . been taking extra classes and spending quality time with loved 1s . cuz once the season rolls along i’m ignoring them all
TXHockeyCow...
Sep 29, 2008
Hey There
That is great news that your mom and grandmother are doing better…I am so happy to hear it…Also, that you’re getting to spend some quality time with your son too…You’ll find that perfect job when the time is right…Have a good week my dear friend…
TXHockeyCow...
Sep 28, 2008
Hi Shawn
My computer crapped out on me so I went and bought a new one today…Hoping all will be fine now…I went crazy last night with no access to the Connect…Thanks for the sweet comment about me being such a girl…You’re always too kind to me…Any updates with you?
princesssha...
Sep 26, 2008
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