Player of the month for February
Abigail Waters named as an \u2018inspirational\u2019 hockey player
By Laureen Sweeney<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Westmount Minor Hockey Association has named Abigail Waters from its Wings U\/M9-4 girls\u2019 team as its player of the month for February. At 8 years old, \u201cAbigail is an inspirational player,\u201d said Andrew Maislin, operations manager for the city\u2019s Sports and Recreation department. In announcing the selection, he said it was not often that an association comes across someone \u201cwho inspires others to want to play hockey at this young age.\u201d And Maislin witnessed it first hand, he told the Independent last week. \u201cThis past weekend, my 7-year-old daughter who wants nothing to do with hockey went to a Wings-versus-C\u00f4te St Luc Canucks game to cheer on a few of her friends on the Canucks team. After the game when she came home, I asked her what she thought about the game and the first words out of her mouth were, \u2018I want to be like number 16 on your team.\u2019 \u201cI asked \u2018Why number 16?\u2019 and her response was so simple and profound. She responded by telling me that every time she saw number 16 on the ice, she was smiling and she looked like she was having so much fun. \u2018I want to be just like her.\u2019\u201d Maislin said that Abigail had assisted numerous teams this season when they have been short players. \u201cShe has often
played multiple games in a day without hesitation. Abigail has demonstrated true Wings spirit, not just on her team but the teams that she has supported.\u201d Amazing shot She has no fear on the ice, he added. \u201cShe has an amazing shot and is always quick to get up when she falls. She has a great hockey sense and is always in the right spot.\u201d While Abigail may be quiet in the room and on the bench, her presence is well noticed on the ice through her consistent performances, he explained. \u201cI look forward to having Abigail in our program for years to come.\u201d The player-of-the-month recognition program was initiated in November 2019 \u201cto acknowledge how, through hockey and sports as a whole, children are able to develop sportsmanship, teamwork and discipline, which they can then transfer into other areas of their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Player of the month for FebruaryAbigail Waters named as an \u2018inspirational\u2019 hockey playerBy Laureen Sweeney The Westmount Minor Hockey Association has named Abigail Waters from its Wings U\/M9-4 girls\u2019 team as its player of the month for February. At 8 years old, \u201cAbigail is an inspirational player,\u201d said Andrew Maislin, operations manager for the city\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahmw.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahmw.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahmw.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahmw.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahmw.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ahmw.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411,"href":"https:\/\/ahmw.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahmw.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahmw.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahmw.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahmw.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}