Born In Alberta, Grew up in Ontario where I and played hockey until I was 18. I blew out my knee at 17 and haven’t played hockey since - however I still have the love for the game so I follow prospects as a hobby away from work. After graduating high school in Canada, I moved to in Germany where I went to school, got a job and now live happily.
Appreciate it, name is pretty simple really.
German speaks for itself and the “Spitfire“ part is two fold, 1 I am a Windsor Spitfires fan, that’s where I lived before I moved to Germany - and #2 - it’s irony really as in WW2 the British flew the Spitfire, not the Germans. Just a funny reference that those who know a little about WW2 would appreciate.
Thanks for the background, I would love to get to Germany sometime. My wife’s family on her mother’s side are all German descent, we’ve had some of her family from Germany stay with us when they come to Canada. Her fathers side entirely English. Mostly Scottish and a bit of English for myself.
My great grandfather was in the RAF during WW2 and my wife’s great grandfather on her fathers side worked on the radar systems that the British Empire used to stifle the Blitz over the British Isles, so the spitfire reference was not lost on me.
Anyways, I could talk military history ad nauseum. Even my 5 year old knows about Viking conquests, Marcus Aurelius and the Roman Empire, and wars throughout Northern Europe.
That’s what he gets for having a father this much into history, it’s partly why I love international hockey so much. Hockey is a form of diplomacy for Canada and our northern brethrens, we can battle it out in intense combat on the ice but come together as civilized nations afterwards.