Claimed: Shiros Profile

[Confusion 5]

A Shiro Profile

 

small shiro

 

 

Shiro was born June 16, 2000 in Kushiro, Hokkaido, Japan. Like most youngsters growing up in Kushiro, Shiro began skating at a young age on a neighborhood pond.  Being a big fan of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Shiro grew up idolizing Ed Belfour and Mats Sundin.

He began playing organized hockey with the local Brampton Maroons, however, hockey wasn’t the only sport he played as a child.  He was also a very talented lacrosse player and played every summer up until he was 15 years old.  Like many other NHL players, including Brendan Shanahan and Joe Nieuwendyk, Shiro credited lacrosse with helping him develop great hands for hockey.

Shiro may have had excellent hands and feet because of his mother which was an figure skater, but one pretty hilarious situation happened to him involving his feet.  When he was 8 years old, he and the family and friends took a trip to the hockey rink one night to go public skating.  When done everyone just threw their ice skates in the trunk.  The next day, when he went to grab his skates out of the trunk, he would grab the wrong skates.  A friend of his had the same pair and Shiro happened to grab the right skate from each pair and proceeded to play an entire game with two right skates on.  Needless to say he didn’t skate very well that day...

 

At 10 years old he joined the Toronto Marlboros triple-A club.  It was with this team that he would meet the person that probably had the greatest impact on his hockey career.

Keith Carrigan was asked to coach the Marlboro’s atom level team.  Up until then he had exclusively coached older teenage hockey players but decided to give it a try.  Shiro took a liking to Carrigan and was glued to everything he said and taught the team.  Much of what he was teaching the team Nash would end up doing in VHLM practices as well.  To this day, Shiro and Carrigan still get together during the off season to work on certain skills and run through various skating drills.

Carrigan coached the young star up until he moved to major junior hockey with the QMJHL's Rimouski Océanic during the 2016-17 season.  Shiro would score 31 goals and 66 points in 58 regular season games and added 3 goals and 6 points in 4 playoff games.  He was awarded Rookie of the Year honors and was a member of the QMJHL First All-Rookie Team and CHL All-Rookie Team  and Shiro continues to lead them on that path.

big shiro

 

Pro:

very tall but agile

can score all the day when hes top of his level 

his hands are also great

 

cons:

a bit slow because of his size 

 

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Edited July 22, 2017 by Confusion