Status: Tampa Bay Lightning center.
DOB: Sept. 14, 1989 In: Halifax, Nova Scotia
Ht: 6-foot-2 Wt: 205 pounds
First Hockey Memory: "Is playing hockey at a park down the street - Windemere Park. I played there, I walked there. That's my first memory. That's where my parents brought me."
Hockey Inspirations: "Just to always be a better player. I always strive to be better, especially when you get to this level. First you want to adapt, but you always want to get better. That's an inspiration."
Last Book Read: "I just read it - Lone Soldier."
Current Car: "BMW."
Greatest Sports Moment: "Actually winning the Calder Cup and my first NHL game at Madison Square Garden."
Most Painful Moment: "Breaking my collarbone. I got hit into the boards when I was pretty young."
Most Memorable Goal(s): "First NHL goal against Florida. And at Harvard, when we beat Yale, I scored a goal with a few seconds left."
First Famous Player You Met Or Encountered: "Vincent Damphousse - at an autograph signing. I got to play golf with him last summer. That was cool."
Favorite Uniforms: "Tampa Bay Lightning."
Strangest Game: "We played Dartmouth one game in the playoffs, two years ago. There was a leak in the ice and we had to wait in the locker room with our gear on for like an hour and a half before the game. People were ordering pizza because they were hungry. We ended up losing."
Funniest Players Encountered: "P-C Labrie is pretty funny. Richard Panik is funny too. Mark Barberio is pretty funny."
Closest Hockey Friend(s): "Louis Leblanc, he's one of my best buddies. Richard Panik. Cory Conacher. Those are my best friends in hockey."
Fiercest Competitors Encountered: "I think Todd Johnston. Brett Connolly - real competitive guy."
Embarrassing Hockey Memory: "When I was younger I went out with my skate guards - I fell all over the ice."
Favorite Sport Outside Hockey: "Golf."
Three Athletes You Like To Watch And Follow: "Tom Brady. Sidney Crosby. Derrick Rose."
Personality Qualities Most Admired: "Sense of humor. Perseverance. Funny."
Mark 'Scoop' Malinowski's second book "Marcelo Rios: The Man We Barely Knew" is available on www.amazon.com. Malinowski is the creator of two websites: www.thebiofile.com and www.tennis-prose.com