The first point, the first goal, the first playoff goal, the first player of the game...
This string of honors comes from a boy named Yuan Junjie, who is a player who is easy to like at a glance, and for the ice hockey dream in his heart for many years, his appearance has also changed many people's stereotypes of Chinese ice hockey.
"When I returned to China to compete, it was like coming home, China is my motherland, and it is a great honor to be able to compete for it", Yuan Junjie, a Chinese male iceman who grew up in Vancouver, was born in a foreign country, but under the influence of his grandparents, he has a deep attachment to his homeland.
At the age of two, Yuan Junjie completed the first ice skating trip in his life, and at that time, his father often took him to see the NHL Plus team, and under such influence, he soon fell in love with the sport of ice hockey. Little Yuan Junjie's ice hockey road began to go smoothly.
In 2009, Yuan Junjie joined the Tri-City Americans to compete in the North American Western Youth League. Here, Yuan Junjie gradually grew from a fledgling marginal player to an indispensable backcourt core of the team. At the Americans, Yuan Junjie gradually grew from a fledgling marginal player to an indispensable backcourt core of the team, and helped the team win the 2011-12 regular season championship.
In the same year, Yuan Junjie, who had a brilliant performance, was selected by the Winnipeg Jets with the 119th pick in the fourth round of the NHL Draft, starting his trip to the top professional league.
Yuan Junjie has always had a dream of returning to China, and in the first season of beijing Kunlun Hongxing in 2016, the young player traveled far and wide to become the first Chinese player in the history of the team to join from overseas.
In his debut season at KHL, Yuan Junjie played all 65 games and averaged more than 12 minutes. A string of honors is written under Yuan Junjie's name: the first point, the first goal, the first playoff goal, the first player of the game in the KHL.
This season, in the Kunlun Hongxing-National Training Team, which entered the state of preparation for the Winter Olympics, Yuan Junjie, who returned from injury, found his best state again. Both preseason and regular season have been extremely good.
As one of the rare "strike-back swingers" in the team, Yuan Junjie has both offensive and defensive skills, can serve as a defender or a winger at a special juncture, and plays a unique role in the system of national team coach Zanetta.
For the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics, Yuan Junjie also expressed his dream of the Winter Olympics. "A few years ago, when I knew that I had the opportunity to enter the national team to play the Olympic Games, I felt that the Beijing Winter Olympics were far away. Time passed so fast, and now that dream came to me in the blink of an eye, and I was ready! ”