They're both Wilmette natives and … Eliteprospects.com hockey player profile of Alex Vlasic, 2001-06-05 Wilmette, IL, USA USA. Perhaps even one of a hometown boy.“I went to go get it and I went right through (the ice),” he said. View the profiles of people named Alex Vlasic. He’ll like it.’ And eventually I just started to like it.”Vlasic graduated from high school with his NTDP teammates a little over a month ago, then they began to go their separate ways.After a pause, she added like any good mother would: “Not that I didn’t think he was worthy of being picked.”The facility teems with youth hockey players and adults who can’t get enough of the game.
“And some Motley Crue.”Alex began playing for his local team, the Wilmette Braves, with his dad coaching him at the Mite, Squirt and Pee Wee levels. Alex Vlasic is a big bodied defenseman who stands at 6’6″ 198 lbs.
Alex Vlasic does not have any NHL stats. 5.They are close-knit siblings and have shared a love of hockey since they played in their basement, pretending to be on AHL teams and then NHL teams as they moved up the ladder and played out their pretend season. I’m like, ‘Ooh, who’s that going to be?’ Because I did not think that was going to be Alex.”Vlasic, 18, won’t make his debut in a Hawks uniform anytime soon. Join Facebook to connect with Alex Vlasic and others you may know. “The hometown team is something you can’t really beat. Tryouts were held in Plymouth, Mich., the home of USA Hockey, where the players would live and attend school if they were accepted into the program.Despite growing up during a time when the Hawks won three Stanley Cups, Vlasic was hardly a hard-core fan of his hometown team. Complete player biography and stats. John Vlasic had even put up a wooden board as a reminder to Alex and his siblings, Eric and Emma, to stay away.Tara and John Vlasic grew up in Canada before moving to Chicago in their 20s and settling in Wilmette when they began their family. “We knew all the players; still, you don’t know. When somebody lit the lamp, music blared.His dad had warned him not to go into one corner of their backyard rink in Wilmette because the ice was a little too soft.
Blackhawks second-round pick Alex Vlasic, No. Some of us were crying saying goodbye to each other.Despite it being a foregone conclusion that Vlasic would get picked fairly high, when the moment arrived, it came as a shock to his mom, Tara, who was watching at Rogers Arena in Vancouver with friends and family.Eric is a standout goalie for the Blackhawks Special Hockey team, while Emma, a forward, played four years at Yale and is mulling over offers to play in the NWHL next season.“I spent two years straight every single day with these guys. “I’ve got some friends on that team that I’ll be friends with for the rest of my life. He’s starting summer classes at Boston University this week and intends to play for the Terriers for at least a couple of years before turning pro.In fact, the Sharks beat out the Hawks for Vlasic’s affections when he was a kid.“All of a sudden similar things are going on in this household when you think, ‘Wow, maybe it can happen twice,’ ” John said.The trophy case at Wilmette’s Centennial Ice Rink, where Vlasic played much of his youth hockey, contains the Silver Stick hardware his Mite team won nine years ago.
You can’t make him do this.’“I wasn’t really paying attention,” Tara said. “And I remember I came off crying and my babysitter was calling my parents like: ‘You can’t make him do this. I was as close with them as I am with my family. It also included goaltender Cameron Rowe, who went on to play with Vlasic on the NTDP team the last two years.“I was taking a skating class where you push those chairs where you try to get support to stand up,” Alex said. That’s where I kind of realized that he had something going for him.”“That was probably the hardest goodbye I’ve had to say,” Vlasic said. “And then I heard, ‘From the U.S National Program,’ and my ears slightly perked up. Vlasic’s team had 17 players drafted last weekend, including top pick Jack Hughes and another Chicago-area kid, Alex Turcotte, who went No. Hopefully we’ll be able to play against each other someday.”Copyright © 2020, Chicago Tribune“Going into (the draft), a bunch of people asked me who I wanted to get drafted by and I always said the Hawks,” Vlasic said. I can tell those guys anything. He said to be solid skater with high hockey IQ and good vision.