Note the moustache. “Movember,” perhaps?
This is our second ever Cyclone Taylor Sports (CTS) Beauty of the Month player interview. The point of these interviews is to get to know some of the local personalities currently playing the game that we all love – hockey. Want a skating or shooting tip? Insight into what gear other players are using? Some of the funniest dressing room pranks? If so, keep reading!
CTS would like to present to you our August Beauty of the Month, Trevor Cox (@TrevorCox36). Current team: Medicine Hat Tigers (WHL). Position: center, Shoots: left. Size: 5’8, 150 lbs
Q&A
1. How long have you been playing hockey?
- “I have been playing hockey ever since I can remember.”
2. What is your favorite hockey memory to date?
- “My favourite hockey memory has to be skating out of the tunnel for my first WHL playoff game at home in the Medicine Hat Arena.”
Medicine Hat Arena – capacity: 4,006 (always a sold out barn)
3. What is your favourite NHL team and favorite NHL player? Why?
- “My favourite NHL team is the Vancouver Canucks because it’s the hometown team. My favourite NHL player is Tyler Ennis because he is a smaller player like myself who also didn’t get drafted in the Bantam Draft and played for the Medicine Hat Tigers.”
Tyler Ennis during his days as a Tiger
4. We have many hockey players who read our blog. Can you provide 1 skating tip and 1 shooting tip?
- Skating tip: “Stay low in your hockey stance – you get a lot more power from being low and you’re harder to knock off the puck.”
- Shooting tip: “It’s not always about how hard you shoot the puck but how accurate you are.”
5. If you were gearing up for game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final, what would be the last song you would listen to before skating out for warm ups?
6. In regards to your equipment, what do you use?
- Skates: “Bauer TotalOne NXG, with flopped tongues. Suns out, tongues out?”
- Stick: “Easton RS, 80 flex, grip shaft, sandpaper blade”
- Gloves: “CCM U+ Crazy Light″
- Helmet: “CCM V10″
7. What is your “go to” pre-game meal?
- “Spaghetti with meat sauce, a chicken breast, and a salad.”
8. What is the biggest difference between minor hockey and Junior A hockey? How did you prepare for the jump?
- “I found the biggest difference is the speed and strength of the players and also how much more intense it is. It turns into your job when you make the jump. I prepared for the jump by training all summer and getting mentally prepared.”
9. Hockey players are known for their dressing room pranks. What is the funniest one you have witnessed or been a part of?
- “The funniest prank I have pulled off would have to be sticking 5 chewy bars into every finger of every glove in the dressing room – gave the boys a good laugh…haha.”
10. Hockey players are also known for weird pre-game superstitions. Do you have any?
- “My superstitions consist of having the same warm up before every game and same routine. I also put on my left sided equipment before my right sided.”
CTS would like to thank Trevor for letting us get to know him and for participating in the second ever Beauty of the Month player interview. And don’t forget, if you’re on Twitter, toss Trevor a follow @TrevorCox36 and wish him good luck for the upcoming WHL season.
Look out for the September Beauty of the Month player interview, coming next month!
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