As an enormous social media nerd but also as a fan of junior hockey, I like to follow as many junior hockey players as I can find. It really doesn’t matter which league they’re from, either. OHL, WHL, QMJHL, and even some college, junior A, and high school players. You never know what those guys are going to talk about, what they’re going to accomplish, or who they are going to become, so why not?

This tends to pay off particularly well on the NHL’s draft day. One particular tweet during the later rounds of the 2011 NHL Entry Draft caught my eye. It was from a young goalie for the Guelph Storm named Garret Sparks. It read:

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