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 am in my final (hopefully) semester of work for my Bachelor’s degree. I’m married with a 2 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 All-Star game this year! 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, 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…