Goalie Landon Bow wasn’t sure what to expect when he was traded to the Seattle Thunderbirds from the Swift Current Broncos on Jan. 5.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“I was hearing some things kind of swirling around but it was still a shock when it happened,” Bow said of the trade. “I’ve never been traded before so I didn’t know how it would feel.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The 20-year-old from St. Albert, Alberta, said it was difficult to leave the team he had played for since the 2012-2013 season.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“The emotions were kind of all over the place,” he said. “A little bit of sadness leaving all the guys there, but a bunch of excitement being able to come to a place like Seattle.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Bow said he knew he would have to prove himself as a goalie to get playing time with the T-Birds. Logan Flodell had been Seattle’s primary goalkeeper this season.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“You don’t just get a free pass as soon as you get in,” Bow said. “There was a chance they were going to give me at the beginning, so I knew I had to make sure I jumped in there and do what I could.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Bow seems to have made an impression for Seattle. Playing in nine games since making his debut with the T-Birds on Jan. 8, Bow has six wins and two losses, a 94.3 save percentage, with 217 saves and giving up only 13 goals.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The T-Birds acquired Bow in a trade for goalie Taz Burman, right wing Jamal Watson and a conditional second-round pick in a future Bantam Draft.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Bow said it has taken some time to adjust to his new home, which is a much larger area than the small town of Swift Current in southwest Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“Coming from a town with 15,000 people to this giant area where coming to the rink takes 15 to 20 minutes, back in Swift it would take me two,” he said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Bow said his new team seems to be a good fit.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“The team here has been great to me the entire time,” he said. “They are a bunch of good guys, good coaching. It has been real helpful for me being in here.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Bow said he would like Seattle to win the Memorial Cup, which is a trophy awarded annually to the Canadian Hockey League champion. The Western Hockey League, which the T-Birds are part of, is one of three leagues that make up the CHL.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The T-Birds had one appearance in the Memorial Cup tournament in 1992 but have never won.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“I know we have the team here that I think can do it,” Bow said of winning the Memorial Cup. “I think it’s going to be real fun coming down the stretch.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
At age 20, this is Bow’s last year of WHL eligibility.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“I am really hoping I can work hard and get myself a pro contract because that is what I wanted ever since I was a little kid,” he said. “Being able to do that would be really huge and be such an awesome thing to be able to go through with that.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Bow started playing hockey when he was 6 but didn’t become a goalie right away.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“I started off as a player like everyone else,” he said. “Everyone wants to score goals, but I just wasn’t as good at the skating part as everyone else so I ended up in goalie when I was 8 or 9.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Bow said he has grown to love the position.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“I have kind of gotten used to getting pucks shot at me all the time,” he said.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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