When I was a boy I most admire interview. I feel very excited.

In fact, I am very excited.For the first two rounds, I worked exclusively for ECHL.com, covering only the games in Newark.  In the Eastern Conference Finals, I was very fortunate to cover all six games — both in the Prudential Center and Madison Square Garden — for The Trentonian.  And now, I get to cover my very first Stanley Cup Finals.  I cannot even begin to tell you what an amazing experience this has been, and the first game hasn’t even started yet.  To be able to interview people I idolized growing up and to have a chance to cover what is, in my mind, the biggest sporting event there is…I cannot tell you what this has meant to me and how happy I am.

No matter how I like to let others knowYou can see my stuff in The Trentonian, as well as The Los Angeles Daily News…and those stories will get picked up in other smaller California papers like the Long Beach Express Telegram, etc.  But, back to my point…that’s a long way of saying that my focus hasn’t been where I thought it would be at this time of year.

Truth is, I’m 29 and haven’t moved up as much as I would assume everyone thinks since I started doing this ten years ago.  This is a huge opportunity for me to maybe get a chance to do something bigger — I’m never been full-time anywhere, just freelance — and my focus absolutely needs to be on hockey right now.  That is not to say that I am ignoring my current beats or have any thoughts of leaving them behind at this time.