The Paper's reporters Ma Zuoyu and Pu Yaolei were from Beijing
0 to 8, in the hockey arena is already a big point difference. But although the Chinese men's ice swallowed such a fiasco, their ability to stand on the stage of the Winter Olympics is already a milestone achievement.
In this game, YingruDi is a particularly interesting name.
YingRudi, 23, is the son of the famous director Yingda. And his story with ice hockey is actually the starting point of many people who have begun to pay attention to this Chinese male ice team.
"Anyone who plays hockey in China cherishes such an opportunity, and we happen to have this opportunity, which is really honorable." When it comes to the Olympic debut, Ying Rudi said gratitude and pride, but he hopes to prove the strength of Chinese men's ice with victory.
"We don't have that big gap, we can actually play better, and we hope to prove it."
Ying Rudi played for the Chinese team.
"Lose in play and mentality, we can do better"
Played 5 minutes and 11 seconds, 8 substitutions, an average of 38 seconds per play, one shot, no points... This is a report card handed over by YingruDi in his Olympic "debut".
He is not the main striker in the team, but he is an important part of the team, because in this team with many young players, the experience and mentality of Yingrudi are what the team needs in the competition.
"I don't think it should be the result. Since the day before yesterday, I felt that the real ability of this American team was not so strong, but today everyone did not have the right mentality in the face of this game. ”
In the mixed interview area after the game, Ying Rudi also talked about the change in the team's mentality when it first stood on the Olympic field, "Considering our level after training and the level of the current American team, in fact, today's ball is played. Including the results of the first quarter also proved this, but the second quarter began with a bit of a mental problem, resulting in a bit of a point difference. ”
Ying Rudi herself said that including him, there were some ups and downs in his mentality. After all, this is the first time That Chinese ice hockey has stepped onto the Olympic stage. Just before the debut began, Ying Rudi was still alone on the returning court, looking around and looking at the situation of the whole field.
"I didn't have a lot of special pre-game preparation habits, but I just wanted to come out and take a spin and see how many spectators there were and what the situation was." Ying Rudi said that such an Olympic stage is different from other competitions after all, "After taking a look, I reacted that this is such an important game, and we must take it seriously." ”
In fact, in the first quarter of the game, the Momentum of the Chinese team was not lost to the United States team at all, and the Chinese players even took the initiative to physically confront and try to suppress the opponent in momentum.
"We knew the other side was expecting an easy game but the first quarter was only one goal ahead of us, so the second quarter came out and we should have worked harder to prepare, but at the start of the second quarter we were obviously not ready, so we were beaten. In ice hockey, mentality is still more important. ”
In the post-match interview, Ying Rudi said more than once that "we have a fight".
Ying Ru Dysprosium in training.
The 9-year-old was selected for the professional echelon and tried to knock on the door of the NHL
It is easy to hear a kind of unwillingness from Ying Rudi's words, which may be a player who has been on the ice hockey rink for more than ten years and has a deeply buried mentality of not accepting defeat in his heart.
The story of Ying Ru Dysprosium and ice hockey is simple.
According to the Ta Kung Pao, when Yingrudi was 3 years old, Yingda and his mother Liang Huan took him to a supermarket near his home to shop, which happened to have a Xiaoice. When passing through the ice rink, Ying rudi lay on the glass on the periphery of the ice rink and did not want to leave.
"Do you want to learn how to skate?" Indah remembers asking her son that. After receiving a positive Q&A from Ying rudi, Yingda sent him to learn figure skating with the coach.
A few months later, an ice hockey coach saw the potential for power ice sports in Yingrudi. As a result, Ying Rudi began his own ice hockey path.
According to Sports Weekly, in 2006, Yingda united with a group of parents who love ice hockey and spontaneously established the Beijing Tiger Boy Ice Hockey Club in Beijing, mainly for children in 1997 and 1998.
Ying Rudi trained in this club, and one of his teammates was Song Anton, the first Chinese man selected by the North American Professional Hockey League (NHL).
Ying RuDi and father Yingda.
In August 2006, Yingrudi participated in the Bell Capital Cup, the world's top junior ice hockey event (under 12 years old), with the Beijing Tigers, in which he scored a "hat trick" consecutively, helping the team win six games, winning the community structure HOUSE A class championship, and won the "scoring king".
After winning the amateur world championship, the Beijing Tigers played another game against a Canadian 1A professional team, and finally Yingrudi once again led the team to a big score to victory.
At this time, Yingda realized that it was time to let his son take the career path.
In 2007, the NHL League's traditional powerhouse, the Boston Brown Bears, invited 9-year-old Ying Rudi to join the Junior Echelon and conducted short-term training from time to time.
Subsequently, Indah sent his son to the Phillips Exeter Academy, a famous ice hockey school in the United States, to study and train, opening a professional ice hockey road.
North American ice hockey is the most robust child hockey training system, until the age of 12, young players who practice ice hockey are under the jurisdiction of the community, which will conduct standard tests on these junior players before the start of each season, and then grade them according to their level.
At the time, Ying Rudi was ranked as the highest AAA player and was able to represent the community's team in the regional competition.
In this way, Ying Rudi trained and competed all the way, and also played professional games for the Toronto Patriots of the Ontario Youth League in Canada.
After former teammate Song Andong became the NHL's first chinese man in 2015, Yingrudi also decided to try to knock on the door of his career.
He signed up for the NHL draft in 2016 — unfortunately, of the 211 rookies selected by the 30 North American Hockey League's professional teams, there were no names.
Yingrudi is confident in the future of Chinese ice hockey.
Not being selected for the national team, that was his failure
"I think that not being selected in the draft is not a failure for Ying rudi." In an interview that year, Indah said that the NHL's draft rules are different from those of the NBA, and that the selection of young players does not necessarily mean that they can play the game immediately, most of them are only used as a reserve force for the team.
"When the Chinese ice hockey team can participate in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, and Yingrudi is not selected for the national team, it is his failure."
In the end, Indah and her son got their wish. And sometimes failure is another opportunity.
In order to help Chinese ice hockey develop ahead of the Winter Olympics, the Russian mainland hockey league KHL approved the application of Beijing Kunlun Hongxing Ice Hockey Club, agreeing to the club's official entry into the KHL league from the 2016-2017 season.
This is the first time in the history of Chinese sports that a world's top league has settled in China.
With this opportunity, Ying Rudi signed up for the team's trial training. Although he was not yet 18 years old at the time, he was more than 185 centimeters tall and weighed 90 kilograms.
After several rounds of trial training, on his birthday on August 16, 2016, Yingrudi was awarded a two-year professional contract, and he became the first Chinese player since 1953 to officially sign for the world's top hockey league (the Chinese men's hockey national team was established in 1953).
Ying Rudi was interviewed.
'I'm probably the youngest player in the entire KHL league, and now every training session has to be very hard." In an interview with the "Ice Hockey Player" WeChat public account, Ying Rudi said, "I can represent China and play in the world's best professional hockey league, and I will not regret it in the future." ”
And his father, Yingda, also witnessed yingrudi's growth and change on the ice rink, "After our children grow up, it is not the knowledge he learns that plays a role." The kind of struggle we have on the sports field, the kind of perseverance that we do not accept defeat, the kind of persistence is the most critical, perseverance and gritting our teeth and suffering are the most lacking in children now. ”
Now, Yingrudi and the Chinese men's national hockey team have turned a new page in the history of the Winter Olympics, and the 23-year-old also hopes to prove china's ice hockey ability to the world.
"We can play against strong teams and we want to be able to prove that. Forget about your results today, play well next game, we hope to win in the Olympic games, but at least make the loss look good. ”
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