"Do not see, wait for a second I regression dollar religion."The Teng green mountain turns over to open letter, the record of writing of top is very graceful-
"Teng eldest brother:
Originally I wanted to press you said of, was a common run of people.However, at you walk soon, when I went shopping in Wu An Jun's city ran into my teacher.She accepts me as pupil and also to drink one cannikin juice water for me and is easy to drink, my blood vessels almost.I canned already do inside the strength now, I the heart bottom in fact don't want to be the common run of people, I think to be similar to the Teng eldest brother and kill those robber's bandits!"
"That big enemy, I report with teacher, didn't bother Teng eldest brother and waited my teacher after, I will seek Teng eldest brother yours!Will definitely of ……
The small 珺 stays a word!"
The Teng green mountain smiled after seeing finish:"Small 珺 she is also to be in fortune lap, her teacher to she drinks of, should be'the Sui of jade Jing'."
The Sui of that jade Jing can compare Zhu Guo's etc. to want many physique of being precious, canning improve, ordinary people can 1 time break through all blood vesselses.Small 珺 blood vessels the impurities are many, also approach to all break through.
******
Wu An Jun's city, inside a secluded den.
"Find out a purple tunic man'Pei three'their 3 people?"The thou a life time friend sinks a track.
Flank bushy beard the strong man connect way:"The city Wei soldier has already sent the horse of 5,000 people seeks, but, that purple tunic man 3 people don't know to hide over there and haven't found out.However little island lord you trust, their three people, absolutely can not escape."
"Hum.Pei in"thou a life time friend vision cold Lie, " three overbearing today of basically have no very will I the green lake island put in the eye, don't hold tight he, this tone I swallow not next.Like, you arrange a person at once and carefully check for me!I don't believe that they are three to greatly live a person, can escape drop!"
"BE."Bushy beard strong man the heart bottom is one Zhan, connect to leave den.
That Pei three really ask for today the ancient life time friend is very angry, can he sees not and deeply Pei three, so have no deserving a field to become angry.Once becoming angry on the spot, if the other party is a badly strong, very possible oneself dooms.So he endures and endures to send the under charge person's horse!He the green lake island is nine state the earths up one of the eight greatest religious sects!
In the Yang state, the nobody dares to call plank with green lake island!
"Shout."
The thou a life time friend grows a comfortable one breath and peeps out one silk smiling face on the face, "《 Qian Long Bang 》 second?Hum, can not lead how long, this 17-year-old genius, 《Qian Long Bang 》 first had no, I again will be the first lately!"
……
Yang state, river rather county city, return inside a dollar religion, various Ge dollar the den of the Hong in.
"The herald gives north door guard, let the Teng green mountain get a back generally, immediately is me this!"Various Ge dollar Hong order way.
"BE, believe in a lord."Green dress pupil Gong body way, immediately leave den to rush through into the north place in the door later on.
The various Ge dollar Hong looking at this airtight letter in hand, this is the news that Wu An Jun's city spreads-"the Teng get generally from wild return, not hurt!"Ten brief words, ask for various Ge dollar Hong mood no longer Ping-ho.
"Do not know, green mountain he has to get Zhu Guo, if get ……" various Ge dollar the Hong is some concussions, "17-year-old inborn?"Person the impossible eternal life is deathless, so, the self-discipline speed also decides hereafter achieve, the person who have leads 100 years old just inborn, have of person 50-year-old inborn, but the Teng green mountain 17-year-old inborn.
Being distinct is a lot too big.
Is 17 years old for the inborn, that will have enough time and attain a highest point height!
"Be don't know, didn't get Zhu Guo."The various Ge dollar Hong also has some to worry and looks for Zhu Guo, oneself is the business that bumps a great luck.
……
Noontide, the sunlight is brilliant, return a dollar Zong Bei Men.
"Lyu Lyu~~~"
Horse's hoofs Gao Gao raises, Teng green mountain direct from the green Zong jumps right away bottom.
"Get adult generally!"The guards of the north place in the door are polite to shout a way, later on immediately someone help to lead long a horse, one among the escort connect way:"Get adult generally, believe in a lord herald, let you on coming back, right away pass by!"
"Pass by right away?"The Teng green mountain is surprised, immediately understood in the heart, " teacher he, estimate to want to know, I have to get Zhu Guo, whether attain inborn."

At this time, that purple tunic middle age man's turning a head to see toward Teng green mountain them is this table of:"Today my Pei three control breath to pour is quite good, can run into 《 Qian 》the Teng green mountain of the first, and 《 Qian Long Bang of Long Bang 》secondary thou a life time friend."
"《 Qian Long Bang 》 first?"The Teng green mountain immediately responded to come over.
Oneself can rank the 46th on 《ground placard 》 , certainly the row 《Qian Long Bang 》 , can have never thought to line up to arrive the first, pressed the thou a life time friend a head of.
The thou a life time friend facial expression is tiny tiny a sink.
"Pei three, I seemed to be never to once hear you in the Yang state."The thou a life time friend eyes Mi says.
That purple tunic middle age man a say with smile:"You are just poorly read and ignorant."
The thou a life time friend isn't flowed out by wrath.
In the Yang state, who dare to he little lord disrespect in the island?
The purple tunic man saw Teng green mountain several eyes:"Is 17 years old, 《 Qian Long Bang 》the first, 《 ground placard 》the 46th!Is quite good, very good!Return a dollar religion young generation, really compare a green lake island to have to be strong."This words are a , the thou a life time friend is also a vexation.Purple tunic man's morrow then order way:"Iron pagoda!"
That dark big fellow really knows what the oneself master makes him dry.
He immediately comes forward an one step, Hong track:"The Teng green mountain heard your marksmanship to get, I came to beg for to teach to beg for to teach!"


Chapter 27 returns inside a dollar religion
Immediately and around ascend the No.1000 person's one clamor.
Challenge 《Qian Long Bang 》 one person Teng green mountain?
The Teng green mountain eyes Mi rises, the cold Lie vision once sweeps that dark big fellow:"Want with me compare up a , first report a true!"
"I call iron pagoda!"The dark big fellow sinks a track.
"The Teng gets generally, this wants to challenge you, and you don't fail miserably in a very easy task."The thou a life time friend says with a smile, he this words obviously look down upon that'iron pagoda', have no idea, the master of that dark big fellow'Pei three'previous words, make this thou a life time friend is very uncomfortable, suppressed one belly fire.
If is a general sons of Wan Mao, early life the person killed.
However the thou a life time friend isn't an ordinary people, he doesn't want to ask for this mysterious Pei now three.
"Fail miserably in a very easy task?"Purple tunic man' Pei three' roar with laughter a way, " flame top of hill hears ancient life time friend, you hurt to China red pillar!"
The thou a life time friend stares at this Pei three, the heart bottom has intention to murder.
"I am this escort, a red China pillar teacher!"Purple tunic man'Pei three'say.
"China red pillar teacher!"
One Hua however!
The Teng green mountain is also to get a shock, that is under the flame foot of a hill, use long the stick defeat China of ancient life time friend red pillar, he once saw as well and had never thought at present this dark big fellow, is a red China pillar teacher.
"You say to is a red China pillar teacher, be?"The thou a life time friend humed a voice.
"The letter doesn't believe is your business, however, even the disciples can win you, the iron pagoda wins you easy to accomplish."Pei three thin say with smile.The cold light is one Shan in the thou a life time friend vision, the intention to murder in heart rises Teng:"This Pei three, I certainly wanted to personally kill him!"
That iron pagoda pulled out a pair of dark robust irons Maos from the back:"Teng green mountain pleases!"
"Chi Chi!"
The Teng green mountain takes out two transmigration of soul guns from the package and answered and holdses one later on pole transmigration of soul gun, order that the escort in the body side:"It Be optimistic about my package."
"BE, get adult generally."That escort polite way.
"Please!"Teng green mountain such as a javelin sort straight, stand over there.
2 people across three tables.
"Hum!"The dark big fellow holds an iron Mao all alone and fiercely starts to jump and crosses three tables and imitates the Buddha a head of big black bear dynasty Teng green mountain to rush toward, two iron Maos in hand momentarily and then turn to make two black dragons to hit toward the Teng green mountain and start to take a burst of relentless of strong breeze, surroundings of person immediately again avoided to let from afar.

Greatly took charge of to touch touch oneself baldheaded, order way:"You let two take charge of them to all come over!"
"Greatly take charge of, do?"Only eye man eyes a bright.
"Certainly do!Escort so more, also invite the person of black A soldier, this goods, at least also get several 100,002 silvers."Greatly take charge of vision cold You, " has a red blood horse, I let him on the hoof to leave!"
……
The color of the sky is dusk.
One neigh of officer way voice, bellow a voice.
Black A soldier of two pay 10 people squad, ride a war horse, turn to make two strong breeze, madly hurtle to kill in the robber, Ma Ze Tuan,'s, that Huan moves of icy cold point of a spear, sting break the body of robber's flimsiness of a , this black A soldier fights a horse once dashing away, the non-commissioned officers need to lend dint to make an effort just right away, a sting can easily pierce Ma Ze's body.
Teng green mountain, Du Hong and Teng green tiger 3 people ride a war horse, at officer way the center.
Is every to have Ma Ze blunt come over, 3 people at will fight with weapons, then sting killed Ma Ze's robber.
"These several hundred Ma Ze dare to also loot us and really seek dead!"The Du Hong sneer way.
"Everyone is presumed to have no the fully enjoy that the way kills."The Teng green mountain is thin to say with smile, all all, the Teng green mountain really knows the fearfulness of black A soldier non-commissioned officer.
The black A soldier is each to ride a soldier, can be treated as ambulatory fort, no matter it is soldier or horse, all be dressed in heavy A.Secondly, all of the war horses of common non-commissioned officer are the black line horses that is worth of 1,002 silvers, in the Ma Ze Tuan's, is then generally a regiment leader can ride this etc. horse.
Fighting amount of horsepower is original big, black A soldier non-commissioned officer is each to have more than thousand catties of energies, many people return the self-discipline 《Mang cow devote major efforts Jue 》 .
Plus ten an artificial brigade of, each other assistance, 10 people blunt kill, can be treated as ground meat machine.
Two pay 10 people the squad Be blunt to kill several times, Ma Ze then killed 100 people, and other Ma Zes were flurried but escaped!
"All all adult, other Ma Ze have already escaped!"Two pay 10 people brigade back.
Fight heavy AN of horse, knight up all occupy blood, and mince...etc., one smell of fresh blood.Kill an enemy to lead 100, none the person get hurt!This is the black A soldier!Return the troops of the most terrible a dollar religion!
"H'm, flush battle armor, after a while set out."The Teng green mountain order way.
"BE!"
All the black A soldier non-commissioned officers beginning flushes heavy A.
"Those horse thieves unexpectedly ask for us, also really don't know to die to is how to write, I just kill 11 Ma Ze, body just limber up, didn't°yet fully enjoy, they escape."
"You don't be getting more satisfied, Lao Tze just kills six, you this hurtles at the most anterior of, be take advantage of."
Everyone's don't care one discusses a voice, just one war.
Other escorts of the car brigade all inwardly surprised Zhan, black A soldier strong force, make them scared.
"Green mountain brothers."The that Chong stone smiles to walk, " I see, those horse thieves presumably think that you are common heavy to ride a soldier, didn't recognize out, and you are black A soldiers.Ha ha ……if recognize out, order so a person, how dare to come over to plunder."
"H'm."The Teng green mountain nods, " Xu Yang Jun, be apart from our river rather county 1,000 many inside ground, these didn't see Ma Ze of dying the noodles, not know that my person is a black A soldier, also not strange.To, Zhu Xiong, the color of the sky got dark, we still kept walking faster earlier, the front is Xu Yang Jun of'Fan Wu Cheng', today, we canned also live to go into the city inside a little bit good Inn."
"Ha ha, these days of, live a not in power outside, all seldom wash a Zao, this greatly in summer of, whole body smelly sweat, must take a bath well today."The that Chong stone says with smile.
Is general to have 23100 between one city and one city inside distance, have farerly.
This car brigade one genius once marches forward 100 insides and had many time naturally is live not in power outside.Certainly ……this officer way up, the wayside occasionally also appears 12 inns of, however wild countryside balefire Inn, the condition is badly.
Stayed in the comfortable comfortable inside the city for a night, finish eating breakfast, the car brigade continued to go forward!

Teng green mountain house inside.
Flushed for a while, make change clothes, put on shoes, with a cordage tie hair just a little for a while, the Teng green mountain also feels pure spirit of a burst of absolute being great.In this ancient times, can have no beauty salon, and the clansmens the hairs are all longer, the Teng green mountain always can not shave into short hair?
"Lost a set of clothes, a pair of boot, half long gun, change come of, is these two pieces of mineral stones."The Teng green mountain cautiously conjectures to begin medium these two pieces of mineral stones.
These two pieces of mineral stones one is slightly a little bit bigger, one is slightly a little bit smaller, body black, see common.
These two pieces of mineral stones are a great deal of two among those pieces in the mineral stone that the Teng green mountain discovers in bluish green cold bottom in the pond pond, after all at that time, the Teng green mountain can not also in great quantities take.Just at will took 2 pieces, put in the bosom pocket.
"Yi, in the cold pond not is send out purple light dizzy?"Put at at present, basically could not see purple light dizzy.Right away the Teng green mountain hands cover lives a mineral stone and holds up light, indeed as expected, under the circumstance that dark, the Teng green mountain unwillingly saw very weak of purple light dizzy.Presumably in the cold pond, under the completely dark condition, this is purple light dizzy just more obvious.
"In the cold pond, feel this mineral stone still pretty hot, feel now, also warm up just."The Teng green mountain is also understand, at the external world, oneselfs all feel this mineral stone warming up.
Cold pond bottom in the pond, that is under the coldest condition, touch this mineral stone, feel very hot, also normal.
"I don't understand to the mineral stone and ask a dad, this exactly is what mineral stone."The Teng green mountain puts these two pieces of mineral stones in the bosom and starts to support an umbrella, house, once walk courtyard, dynasty that house walks.
Let go of an umbrella, the Teng green mountain also sits by the side of the table.
Outdoor rain-storm pouring, it is comfortable and warm to pour inside the house.
"Green mountain."Teng any always worries to inquire a way, " you enter mountain, is this just half of two-hour period, exactly met what?Unexpectedly allow you to even lose the guns of Bin iron half."This enter mountain mountain, descend a bluish green cold pond, speak of come slow, but actually with the speed of the Teng green mountain, back and forth add all shortage half of two-hour period.
Mother even the breakfasts are all just preparing in the middle.
"Meet what?"The Teng green mountain is helpless on smiling, " dad, I also have never thought, we greatly postpone mountain and also calculate not and up what Tashan, can this Tashan inside, unexpectedly have a monster."
"Monster?"Teng any is always more surprising, " what kind of monster?"
"Head the python that livings silver Cape, the foot contains the python that more than ten Zhangs grow."The Teng green mountain starts to recall that boa and still keeps feeling scared, that boa is rated as a knife gun not to go into.Connect to ownly and extremely recruit'poison Long Zuan 'all can just a little break skin, know, with own strength and the marksmanship, this wearing of point of a spear deeply dint, early more than numerous hot weapons of previous incarnation.
Is some guided missiles of previous incarnation presumably, all bomb deathless that defense the boa of degree.
"More than ten Zhangs grow of, head the boa that living silver Cape?Jiao?"Teng always any also surprised way.
Head's livingsing an only horny boa , on nine states the earths, is a flood dragon.
"Jiao, that is the demon monster, absolute being monster, green mountain, did you run into Jiao?"Teng any always dares not believes, " we greatly postpone mountain, in have Jiao?"In nine state the earths of many legendary, some monsters that own unimaginable strength are called it BE'absolute being monster'or'demon monster'.
Those monster, each , all have the terrible strength of demolishing the city defense.
The Teng green mountain says with smile:"The dad is that bluish green cold pond.I sneak in that bluish green cold pond ……want and see, this bluish green cold pond why so cold.In the pond bottom, ran into that Jiao!Luckily I escape quickly."
"Your this kid, blind commit tomfoolery."Teng always any the empress listenning to's carrying on the back is all burst of cold sweat.
At the thought of oneself's son fights in bluish green cold pond bottom in the pond and the Jiao, Teng any is always a burst of and frightened, if oneself's son died, how does that do?

Can easily freeze a cold pond after all, that black fog is affirmative ice is cold more.
"The monster is really a monster."Teng green mountain at anxiously at the same time, the double boxing also ruthlessly hits ice-cubes.
"Peng!""Peng!"……
The fist of lightning flash sort, above the ice-cubes very and soon collapses, ground crack.
Teng green mountain while saying that that deep pond boa is a monster, in fact, he was also a small monster by himself.
The boa in"roar~~~" is fiercely with an upward exposure blunt, a great deal of ice-cubes drive blunt ground crack, this boa very and soon makes track for toward the Teng green mountain, the Shi wants to give° the Teng green mountain to eat up.
"Bomb!"
Ring along with huge one, a great deal of of the ice-cubes spout to shoot toward the all directions from the cold pond surface, at the same time a shadow of human figure from water inside rush out, fall at cold pond not distance.
"Come out on the whole."The Teng green mountain doesn't dare to have to the slightest relax and directly rush at the package of distance not, at the moment heavy rain pouring, in the whole world one water is boundless, Teng green mountain a hold tight that package, Si a , directly tear to pieces, from took out to is divided into two Bin iron gun among them.
Roar~~
One bellows that Hua a , a terrible boa monster breaks ice but from the cold pond, the huge ferocious boa head sweeps to on all sides, the vision targeted a Teng green mountain a while.
"Shout!"The Teng green mountain too late links two gun poles, the whole individual immediately displays 《 limits of the earth goes 》, turn to make together green smoke, rush out halfway up a hill.
On jumping but rising, direct from halfway up a hill, the dynasty below the hills jumps!
The big boa in"roar~~" huge snake body fiercely flees, the one mouthful bites toward the Teng green mountain that jumps in mid air.
"Roll you!"Teng green mountain bellows, half Bin iron gun in the hand turns to make an unreal image and unexpectedly sells but, take a sharp spirit to explode a voice and stab toward the head of big boa.
The point of a spear of the half Bin iron gun for revolving in"Chi Chi~~" stabs on the scale of big boa and unexpectedly and difficultly stabbed a small hole, inside gun head the scale layer that permeate into a big boa, the blood permeates from the big boa skull, big boa offensive is also of.
The Teng green mountain drops to go in the deep mountain under a while.
In the whole world one water is boundless, this boa monster, could not see the shadow of human figure of Teng green mountain any further.
Once the big boa of cutting up rough jilt skull, that gun of Bin iron is jilted ground to hit at one side mountain wall up, the mountain wall imitates Buddha bean curd similar, the gun of Bin iron unexpectedly sank into mountain wall inner part to go to.
The skull dyes the pole of the boa monster exasperation of blood and opens big mouth and then and without restraint sprays to go toward the all directions, black fog spews out from this, the dynasty fills the air to open on all sides, surroundings of the mountain wall be touched by this black fog, immediately and silently have no the changing into of voice interest crushed stones powder, get down a square to flow to drip.
"Roar~~~"
At halfway up a hill place, this terrible boa monster roars to the sky and vents to cut up rough, the surrounding mountain wall shivers and seems for the exasperation but Zhan Li of this boa monster.
For a long time behind, this boa monster can the unwilling nature retract in the bluish green cold pond, the bluish green cold pond resumed equanimity and played noodles in the cold pond top to soon have the thick 1 F hard ice again.
……
Under edge, the Teng green mountain stands at Lin Jian, regardless of rain water pouring, face upward to see toward that halfway up a hill, be to see this boa monster to face upward toward the heaven roars, in the heart is of an earthquake.
"That water bottom passage deep place, don't know exactly is where, unexpectedly conceive so terrible monster.Today isn't that I ran quickly and perhaps today a life to cast away this."The Teng green mountain is also understand, the world spiritual influence is abundant, the mankind can become stronger, equally will be born as well terrible monster.

Be used as a qualified assistant, she have to she sees of upward the department make collective report.
If later leaf autumn what matter, but she fails to report the facts, afraid is director's affirmation will be blamed and scolded to he or she.
River Yan is purple to sit upright after transacting a chair top sorting to just toss about loose data, hearing the words of assistant, the action on the hand contains momentary deadlock.Is very quick, and then resume such as often.
Did he also come?What does he come to do?
The present condition of Yan house she is knowing, where heard some mis but don't enrich from a somebody as well thing.
Unexpectedly leaf heavy Sui return be really have relation with Yan house allied, the house of the Yan gets end like this now and seem to don't also sympathize with of necessity.
Just, the Yan pleasant breeze has been treating oneself is quite good.
"Hear them saying what?"River Yan is purple easy to read to ask a way.
"Sorry director, I have never canned hear they talk.I am in the soundproof door at that time, they were in the outside."Chen Nuo is sorry of say.
Under this circumstance, even if hear, also wanted to pretend to don't know.It is subordinate, sometimes still need to learn to pretend ignorance.
"Own busy matter."River Yan was purple to raise head to see an eye of Chen Nuo, say.
BE.Director."Chen Nuo promises and walked to go out in quick time.
Wait until an office door to again close, river Yan is purple to push away a chair to stand.
Walk the inside that is ex- to looking at yard to the glass window of scenery, but the in the mind is 100 feeling social intercourses.
Is it oneself that don't know shame?Is it two people to unexpectedly and successively fall in love with father and son?
She knows.That not is act for.
They are all the one and only.A per of, fall in love with very naturally.
Wang Jian Han's temperament is hasty, seldom come back a Yan city, the nature would not like to always sit in the home.
This time Lin Cang Lan, the autumn and Wang Jian Han 3 people of leaf together gather a Yan city, then drive interloper Anne a , the eminent family is three childes, of title.
Lin Cang Xie is to avoid it to cannot compare with, the leaf autumn is a not essential, Wang Jian Han's youth's disposition, but is pretty much enjoy this felling.
Just at red person guild in and in Guo will of when a deluxe member drank tea the cellular phone of the pocket inside of Wang Jian Han rang.
Wang Jian Han's complaisance of to sit a just across the street beauty way Qian, this just pressed to connect to listen to key.
He after seeing the number that the arrival electricity shows is Lin Cang Xie, especially idea of didn't walk far.Because he knows, Lin Jia will have a fatal attraction to at present this woman in the identity position of soldier boundary.
She the old headman is also a high class of military district in the Yan city to get.
BE a soldier, doesn't that want to take a relation with Lin Jia?
"Eldest brother, do you seek me?Wang Jian Han smiles to ask a way.Very at will of appearance.The sky knows that his in the mind is very frightened he this becomes sworn eldest brother.
"The sword is cold, where are you ?"Lin Cang Xie's voice is from the words tube in spread.
"Eldest brother.Do I accompany general Lee's daughter to drink tea in red person's club building of office."
Especially the idea of Wang Jian Han swept one eye, indeed as expected, opposite woman's eyes moment is bright to get up.
"Hey Hey.There is drama."Wang Jian trembles with fear an inside dark joy.
"Your two elder brothers just fights with others, this matter son do you know?"Lin Cang Lan asks a way.
"Two elder brothers?Just fight with others?"Wang Jian Han raised voice.This time, eyes of his turn are bright to get up.
"Two elder brothers are really also of.Fight this kind of matter how don't call to ascend me?"Wang Jian Han puts blame on to say.
"The sword is cold, want to be steady to weigh in this kind of time some."The voice of Lin Cang Xie is scathing.

"With the season officially cancelled, the USHL recently awarded the Anderson Cup to the Chicago Steel. The Cup goes to the team with the most points and the Steel certainly earned it with a 41-7-1 record that included two 13-game win streaks and dominance over the scoring race: four of the top five producers came from the Steel, with only Dubuque’s Ty Jackson cracking the streak. At the time the season was called, the Steel were 15 points clear of Dubuque and Waterloo, who were tied for second.
“We came into the year expecting to be one of the top teams in the league and obviously had a good year,” said defenseman and 2021 NHL prospect Owen Power. “The team was dominant.”
So how did they do it? Talent, of course, but preparation helped as well. GM Ryan Hardy put together a rigorous program that called for a certain kind of dedicated player, then went out and got those kids. Whether it was through the draft (like Power and 2020 NHL draft prospect Sean Farrell) or trade (2020 draft prospect Brendan Brisson), Hardy gave coach Greg Moore the talent needed. When Moore was hired away by the AHL’s Toronto Marlies in December, Brock Sheahan stepped up behind the bench and continued the Steel’s successful run.
“It’s just the mindset every day of getting better,” Brisson said. “All the resources coming together really makes it easier to succeed as a player and a team. We take it really seriously here.”
Hardy’s stint with USA Hockey’s National Team Development Program helped. The Chicago GM was the NTDP’s director of player personnel for three years, giving him a crash-course in running one of the top producers of NHL talent in the world.
“It helped me in so many ways,” Hardy said. “I was able to look at the setup they had there and also analyze the players; why some were successful and some weren’t. A lot of our cultural pieces came from there – there are probably games where we’re not at peak rest, but we’re not going to sacrifice a (gym) lift that would help the players long-term – that’s something we took from them.”
Surrounding his staff and players with experts also helps.
“We contract with a company for mindset resilience development,” Hardy said. “And we have an agreement with Darryl Belfry and Adam Nicholas from an on-ice development standpoint, so from a recruiting perspective, it certainly helps.”
Belfry is the skills guru whose clients have included Patrick Kane and John Tavares – he also works with the Maple Leafs during the season now. Nicholas is another top skating and skills coach renowned in the business.
Looking at the 2020 NHL draft, the Steel will be well-represented. Brisson is a potential first-rounder, while Sam Colangelo and Sean Farrell are top-100 prospects in their own rights. Fellow forward Gunnarwolfe Fontaine, who was passed over last year, will likely be taken too. But the party isn’t going to stop next year, as the Steel tendered one of the most exciting young prospects in the world, 2023 NHL draft prospect Adam Fantilli. The Toronto-born center will play at least 55 percent of Chicago’s games next year in exchange for the Steel coughing up their first-rounder in the next USHL draft.
With all the talent that has been coming through Chicago in the past couple years and all the preparation that went into making this year’s edition a force in the USHL, it’s no surprise top-end kids keep picking the Steel."
"Graeme Roustan: Today we have Pat Kelleher, the executive director of USA Hockey on with us today for Sports Illustrated and The Hockey News. How are you doing today?
Pat Kelleher: I’m doing all right, Graeme, thank you for having me.
GR: How are your employees and your staff doing during these times?
PK: I think the best part is we have a lot of people that work for USA Hockey that are truly deeply dedicated hockey professionals and passionate hockey people. So they are trying to grind their way through this. We have people in Michigan at our arena and the national team program. We have our national office in Colorado Springs. We have people that work remotely for us across the country regularly. So everyone is trying to stay engaged, connected and we’re trying to find ways to connect with one another and try and connect with our community. We’ve had our hockey department conduct Zoom meetings with coaches and hockey directors. We’re just trying to help people as best we can through this time by finding ways to talk about hockey, which is not easy right now. But our staff is committed, and we’re committed to our staff. We want to try and do a weekend to find our way through this challenging situation, or, as I’ve trademarked in our office this “fluid situation,” and make sure that when we do come back we can get back on the ice.
GR: Some states obviously are more affected right now than others, like the state of New York. Do you find that your team in New York is in need of more attention right now than other states?
PK: I don’t think we have one particular area where people are more in need. Where we are, we try and communicate with everybody and understand that everybody has different challenges. We have different volunteers throughout the U.S. that we do communicate with and some are in different situations for sure. We have coaches and people that participate in youth hockey out there that are frontline healthcare providers. We feel for those people and certainly appreciate all that they’re doing. We’re just trying to connect where we can with people in hockey and maybe give people a little break from some of the things they’re dealing with. Just to try and talk about hockey or engage in hockey in a different way. And I think that goes for kids that play, too. Kids are not in school, they’re not out with their friends. How can they be active at home and shooting pucks or stickhandling? I think that’s important, too.
GR: Has USA Hockey, essentially shut down your programs? When do you think they’ll be up and running again?
PK: Yeah, I wish I had the crystal ball to tell you when we’d be up and running again. That would be fantastic. I think it was back on March 11 when we made the really difficult decision at the time to cancel this year’s national championships. That was really the front end of when everything really picked up. And I remember speaking to Bill Daly from the NHL that day, and we both were like, “things seem to be going a lot faster right now.” And they did. Things happened really quickly. At the front end, it was really agonizing, because you didn’t know what we were going to be dealing with. Our national championships for youth hockey would have started on April 1, and it was March 11. When we made the decision, we had a long, long, difficult discussion and listened to every angle on what we should do and what we could do, but we went with what was the safest decision then, but not an easy decision, to cancel nationals at that time.
Obviously, three weeks later, there would have been no chance to hold nationals. One of the tougher parts is we are a membership organization for youth hockey. And we have kids and families that engage all year long in hockey and love and have a great experience. A select few and their teams are fortunate to qualify to play for a national championship at whatever age level – boys, girls, sled hockey, and all those things run through USA Hockey. To have to cancel that and not finish the season is really difficult. And frankly, it’s difficult for our volunteers and for our staff. I mean, people work for two years at a time to prepare to host a national championship. So that’s just agonizing. For the kids and the families and the coaches and the volunteers who put so much time into trying to get to that end-of-season tournament or national championship, no one wants to have the season finished without the chance to play it out at the end."

"Two years ago today, Brayden Camrud looked around the dressing room at the Elgar Petersen Arena in Humboldt, Sask., and he could see there was no quit in him or any of his teammates. Two days earlier, the Humboldt Broncos had lost 6-5 in overtime to go down 3-1 in their playoff series against the Nipawin Hawks, three games after they had lost in double overtime in Game 1. They were that close. As they packed their hockey bags for the two-hour bus ride northeast on Highway 35 to Nipawin, he stopped in front of rookie Logan Hunter’s stall. As Hunter was loading his hockey bag, Camrud asked Hunter if he was going to score a goal that night. “He said, ‘I’m scoring two,’ ” Camrud recalled. “And I said, ‘That’s what I like to hear.’ Logan was phenomenal. He had an amazing shot, he had a super bright future ahead of him. He was going to be playing Division I hockey someday.”
Two years ago today, Brayden Camrud opened his eyes and took his earbuds out. As the Broncos team bus was approaching the intersection of Highway 335 for the final stretch into Nipawin, it was time to tuck the shirts in, straighten the ties and make themselves presentable. It was almost showtime. Teammate Evan Thomas was running his fingers through his hair, then he gave Camrud a wink. Then, in that blink of an eye, everything changed. When Camrud came to on the frozen ground, chaos surrounded him. So did teammates who had died in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash, kids who just moments prior to that were just like him, chasing their hockey dreams.
Two years ago today, Brayden Camrud was flying to a hospital in Saskatoon with his father by his side in an air ambulance. The first thing he asked about the condition of Broncos coach Darcy Haugen. “I said, ‘Son, I’m not quite sure, I don’t know, but I don’t think it’s very good,’ ” said Curtis Camrud. “ ‘I don’t think he made it, but you need to relax. And he said, ‘If he didn’t make it, what about those two little boys? They’re going to grow up in this world without a father, Dad.’ And it broke him.”
It’s late February and Brayden Camrud is in an arena in Tempe, Ariz., of all places. He came early to chat before practice with the University of Alaska-Anchorage Seawolves. Camrud is a freshman with the Seawolves and this weekend, they’re preparing to play a weekend series against Arizona State. Camrud’s great-grandparents, grandparents, parents and two brothers are in town for the game, which represents a welcomed respite from the February chill in Alaska and Saskatchewan. Camrud looks good. Really good. He has that perpetual sleepy look of a kid who’s trying to juggle elite athletics and school. The glasses give him a scholarly air. It’s hard to tell whether the messy hair is deliberate or a casualty of a lack of attention. And he’s bigger and stronger, much bigger and stronger than he was when he left Humboldt after last season. He cuts an impressive figure in his Seawolves golf shirt and khaki pants.
The Arizona State games would be the last two games he would play this season. Camrud would sit out the Seawolves final four regular-season games and their two playoff losses. It has been a long, difficult season for Brayden Camrud, for a whole host of reasons. The Seawolves went 4-25-7 this season and of those 36 games, Camrud missed 15 of them. He finished the season with three goals and five assists. It was a 42-hour drive to Anchorage from Saskatoon and Camrud missed his family, his support system, desperately. “He’s struggling a little bit,” Curtis said. Curtis is just looking forward to getting his son back home this summer to heal his body, his brain and his mental health. He thinks the night of the bus crash that killed 10 of his son’s teammates and six others in the organization, his family had a guardian angel watching over it. Because without his son, Curtis has no idea how his family would have held together, the way the 16 other families have in the two years since the accident. “We are very, very lucky because without him we’d be in deep trouble,” Curtis said. “Our family would be in deep trouble. We wouldn’t know what to do. We’d be lost without him.”"
"From the time Brayden Camrud hit the ice for his last season with the Broncos in 2019-20, he did so with a sense of purpose. He was intent on playing for the memories of those who no longer had that privilege. They had hockey dreams and dreams that went beyond the game. He might have been the luckiest person on the bus that day and is one of only a handful who are still playing, the only one playing at a level as high as Division I. “For a lot of the guys who aren’t here, this was the path they wanted to pursue,” Camrud said. “I feel like I’m doing a pretty good job of living my best life and living it through them.” But carrying around the hopes and dreams of so many people can be a heavy burden to bear sometimes it weighs heavily on him. When the Broncos lost the first game of the season in 2018-19, Camrud said he felt as though he had let everyone down. It’s difficult, particularly when the lingering effects of the concussion he received in the crash come back to bother him. “A couple of weeks ago he had a real tough week,” Curtis Camrud said between periods of the first game against Arizona State in February. “He phoned and said, ‘I don’t know how or why, but I started breaking down in math class.’ The hard part for him is he’s playing so far away in Anchorage and his coaches aren’t – and you don’t expect them to – they’re not going to pat his bum.”
The Seawolves have a promising sophomore group that endured a lot of growing pains this season. They’re hopeful times will get better. The Seawolves and Camrud decided to shut things down after the Arizona State games because he was playing through injuries and they both thought it would be best if he healed and came back stronger next season. Camrud was brought to Alaska to be a skilled playmaker who could skate and shoot well and bring energy to the lineup, “and he did all of those things,” said Seawolves coach Matt Curley. “Overall, we were thrilled with his performance and we fully expect him to be a big part of what’s going on here and in the future.” But that future is uncertain. Camrud will take stock of his game and his frame of mind over the summer and make a decision on his future.
In a year that has been full of ups and downs, there have been some wonderful moments. One of them came in the first series of the season when the Seawolves travelled to Maine. They were blown out 7-1 in the first game, but came back the next night and lost 2-1 in overtime. A young girl, whose parents have been season-ticket holders for 12 years, was wearing a Humboldt Strong T-shirt. Camrud gave her the thumbs up and sought her out after the game to give her his stick and an autograph. The girl and her parents had a tearful moment with Camrud and they embraced. “I know that if I leave this Earth tomorrow,” Curtis Camrud said, “I’ll know I’ve done a pretty good job raising a good young man.”
The background on Brayden Camrud’s cellphone is a picture of the Broncos celebrating a goal in their first-round series against Melfort, just weeks before the accident. In the photo, Camrud is embracing with Conner Lukan, Broncos captain Logan Schatz and Bryce Fiske. Half of the players in that celebration, Lukan and Schatz, died in the crash. The goal came on a 4-on-3 and Camrud hit Lukan for a back-door pass, which Lukan tapped in. Camrud always smiles at that picture because when they came together to tap helmets together after the goal, Camrud butted his head in early and hit Schatz in the mouth, chipping his front tooth. “We come out of the huddle and all of a sudden, I hear, “F—! Camo, what the f—! You hit me in the mouth, you (expletive)!’ ” Camrud said. “It reminds me of why I’m in Alaska, why I continue to play hockey and why I’ve got to push myself to be the best person and player I can be.’ ”
The novel coronavirus forced Camrud to return home early. Under normal circumstances, he probably would have still been in school, likely writing his final Business Management exams. But he’ll be with family for the second anniversary, which is probably for the best for him. “I get to think about how super thankful for where I am, talk to my family and tell them how much I love them,” Camrud said. “How fortunate and blessed I am to be alive. And if anybody needs to have a conversation, if they need me to just listen, if they want to just sit on the phone and neither of us talk…just to make sure that we’re doing OK.”"