• Position: Right wing
• Jersey No.: 24
• Height/weight: 5-10, 195
• Age: 21
• Hometown: Kingston, Ont.
• 2005-06 stats: Ranked fifth on the team in points with 18. Has scored 10 goals and dished out eight assists. ... Scored eight goals and had four assists in the month of December. ... The team s top enforcer (with the injury to Robert Snowball) has the most penalty minutes in the entire ECHL with 164.
• Career: Played for the Sudbury Wolves in the Ontario Hockey League in 2000-01 and part of 2001-02. ... Played for the Kitchener Rangers of the OHL for four seasons before making his pro debut in Toledo. ... Collected 38 points with 18 goals and 20 assists in 2003-04. .Recorded 46 points (16 goals and 30 assists) last season for the Rangers.
• Favorite way to spend time away from the rink: I m a big fan of water sports during the summer. We have a cottage on the lake in Kingston, so I like to water ski and wakeboard. I m a big fisherman. Bass and pike are what I catch.
• Hockey player(s) you admired growing up: Darcy Tucker, Wendel Clark. I like their style. I like how they play. They re all-around players. They ll score, hit, fight. They ll do anything to win. I like to model myself after them.
• Favorite sport other than hockey: A little bit of basketball. I m not a fan at all [of college football].
• Favorite type of music: Anything that is good. From alternative to rock to R&B and country. [In the locker room], we ll put on something that fits the type of mood we re in. Scooter [Smith] is the big music man. We let him do what he wants. I sit by the speakers so it s a little loud. But I don t care as long as it is good music.
• Favorite food: I like pasta. I grew up on chicken parm. Now I make most of my own meals. I ll fire up some chicken and rice and pasta. I like steak. I ve become quite the chef.
• Favorite Movie: I like a bunch of them. The Thomas Crown Affair. Primal Fear. Man on Fire. I own a bunch of DVDs. I m a big movie buff. I only have 20 here, but I own a lot more than that.
• Favorite TV Show: Viva La Bam. It s on MTV. I like those kinds of shows. Punk d and Jackass.
• Do you have any superstitions? The color green is good luck to me. I put green on my stick and stuff. I like to wear the color green on game day. It depends on how much I need the luck. One of my old friends had that as a superstition. I tried it out and it s something that stuck with me. It s gotten out of hand a bit.
• What it is like to be an enforcer: I did quite a bit of fighting in juniors. I got into about 20 fights a year. I ve always been among the top leaders in penalty minutes. It s something that comes along with my style of play. With how hard I play, I m gonna get into fights. I ll finish checks every time out there. Overall, I run around a lot. I try to make sure the other team notices me. I try to intimidate them. If things are not going our way, it might be my time to go out and start a fight. We feed off the energy of the crowd. But it s important to be able to have both aspects of the game. I like to score as well as fight.
• Do you have a hobby?: I just got the PSP. The new portable Playstation. It s great for the road.
• Person you most admire: My brother Sheldon. He s been to where I want to be. He played three seasons in the NHL for the Tampa Bay Lightning [2000-03].
• If you could meet an athlete, dead or alive, who would it be? Lemieux, Jordan, Gretzky. Those guys were at the top of their games. I d like to meet all the greats.
• Something nobody knows about you: I don t want to give anything away. Everything anybody needs to know, they already know.
Mark Monroe
First Published January 6, 2006, 1:10 p.m.
