REPORTER
ous standouts to the event. Count former Most Valuable Players
winger Alex Ovechkin and the Edmonton Oilers’ rising young star
Connor McDavid, along with Lightning standouts Brayden Point,
Steven Stamkos, Victor Hedman, Nikita Kucherov and
analyst Barry Melrose and NBCSN’s
Emmy award-winning play-by-play announcer
Doc Emrick.
Wya shoots his intro scene or the NHL All-Star Gae interviews in January 2018
That’s right, the 9-year-old from
Land O’Lakes and former Lightning
Junior Reporter interviewed the
NHL’s best right alongside the professional
broadcasters, TV analysts and
journalists.
“I just like talking to them and having
father Michael “told me to just forget where
you are and have fun.”
Watching their son interview players, brings enormous
pride and smiles to his parents faces.
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Paul Gris, a Senior Producer for Hockey Night in Canada, and
equally impressed with the young reporter.
him on our Sportsnet broadcasts, including the Eastern Conference
Final as part of Hockey Night in Canada.”
her younger brother as a natural.
“Once he gets into it he’s very relaxed and acts like he’s
talking with his best friend,” she said.
Added his mother Jennifer, “Honestly, I am shocked at how
As for his interviewing days, they likely are not over.
playing hockey recently and it’s a tough call, but I’ve got to say
interviewing hockey players is very fun.”
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possibility.
consider him.”
to his somewhat celebrity status. Fink marveled early on at how
he interviewed Brayden Point, a rising star, and former crowd favorite
Brian Boyle, who this season returned to Tampa Bay as an
“I shot all of his features,” Fink said “When he would
come to FanFest and other (Lightning events), the
players would recognize him and ask him how
he was doing.”
While Fink maintains that he could
be a frontrunner if the Lightning’s Junior
Reporter program resumes, Gris
family, NHL players and media members
by summing up the youngster’s
“He has a very bright future in
an avenue he’d like to pursue,” Gris
said. “I know I will be watching his career
with great interest.”
adds his dad, “we can only imagine where
he might go from here.”
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