33. Logan Angers, Goaltender with PWHL Ottawa

welcome to the ringside rundown podcast showcasing the incredible women's hockey players from around the world through compelling interviews and discussions alongside your host Chris Sinclair hello and welcome back to the ringside rundown podcast today I'm joined by Logan angers a Quinnipiac University graduate Logan welcome to the show how are you doing I'm good thank you how are you I'm doing great thank you thanks so much for taking time out of your busy off seon to uh to join the show and to uh you know share your story with uh with everyone this is really exciting I can't I can't wait to dive in you ready for sure yeah thanks for having me I'm super excited good yes absolutely absolutely um so a great starting point is a natural spot right like what got you into hockey what was it about uh hockey that you were just like you know what this is something I am very interested very intrigued very excited to be focused on yeah I mean I have been skating since I could walk essentially like we had a backyard rink all growing up so like I think as soon as I could walk I was probably skating on our backyard Rank and um have been doing that for years and years and and then I come from a you know a hockey family my one side of the family I'm the only girl so lots of boys lots of hockey um and I think that it was just something that was so like intriguing to me my dad played hockey my older brother played uh my younger brother played as well um and I think it was just something that I really enjoyed obviously and kind of pursued farther so what what did it feel like um if you can recall back to that moment uh what did it feel like to to to lay on those skates for the first time I wish I could tell you exactly how it felt the first time I'm not sure I remember that but I definitely there's definitely some good pictures of us as little kids out there like hardly being able to move right but just you know having a big smile on our face you know happy to be out there yeah well the good news is uh at least from my perspective I would still be just that terrible on skates so I always admire uh I always admire hockey players because I know how difficult it is to lace up the skates and actually uh hit the Ice uh I also once uh played gender uh with skates on and it was uh I tell people I went down in the butterfly and that was the last uh position I played for the rest of the game so you you had mentioned obviously you know like a number of um you know uh like hockey basically runs in your blood mhm um um could you talk a little bit one of the things that I always like to talk about is that you know it's an origin story isn't just about you it's also about family right could you talk a little bit about what it meant to have you know hockey again run in your blood but also hockey you know just be to have that support from your family yeah I think my family are like my biggest supporters they came out to Connecticut this year so many times and it's you know not a close for them to be there but they're like my biggest supporters in that and all growing up uh my younger brother's only a year younger than me um so my dad was actually always our coach and you know he would Age Advance him so that we could always play together and my dad could always be my coach and so it was always you know it was a family affair for sure nice and so you know when you think back to those experiences that you had with um you know and we're obviously fast forward a little bit but I think it's it's important to talk about it now where it's like you had family in the stands and you like you said like you know it isn't like you're just driving down the street right like that's a commitment that they had to make to to make sure that they were at those games um uh for to support you what was it like to be able to like you know that they're still there supporting you and this like hockey is a very expensive sport you know both in terms of like time spent h both you as an athlete as well as your family but also literally financially it's very expensive and now they're also adding that extra layer of I mean I'm assuming they didn't drive they may have driven if yeah I was like that's yeah exactly I was like I would assume they flew because that would be quite the commitment but um what did it mean to you to be in those moments and to you know be on the ice and to be so as successful as you were throughout your collegiate career but also know that your family was there yeah I think it's something like so awesome I think it was kind of exactly you know what they H for they put all this money and time into it and now they get to see me succeed and see me you know have fun with this and I think that's so awesome yeah absolutely it is and to see the success that you had um obviously on the ice but obviously as as well just as importantly off the ice as well um I want to know you know I I mentioned it earlier um so for me personally I always loved being a goal tender I always it was gender defense like I want to be responsible on that side of the puck um and by puck I mean mostly ball hockey because like I said I you put me on Skates um it's game over for me um no skates I'm great I'm totally fine um but um for me there was a thrill uh to be on that side of it I was never a goal scorer but I will sacrifice the body it doesn't matter I love being on uh on you know the defense side of of the game could you talk a little bit about um what it was about goal tending specifically that kind of Drew you to that position and and and how you felt um that experience has been for you yeah I think um you know I wasn't always a goalie I wasn't a goalie until I was 11 which is you know kind of a mid-range age to start being a goalie but my older brother was always a goalie and I always think I love that and then I started to uh I've always played Boys Hockey um I started to you know beg my parents to be a goalie as well and I think when we were little kids and you'd rotate goalies I'd always want to do it and my parents were like no like we don't want another goalie in the family and I mean I get it but um I think I was always begging them and then it got to the time where I'd go out to my younger brother practices and be a goalie there while I was also you know playing on my own team and I think I just loved it so much that I you know kept begging and begging my parents to finally let me be a goalie and so um I guess I guess it kind of brings up a two-fold question here how did your how did your family um take the news that you were like I'm committing to being a goenda been what's it felt like to um you know you you'd mentioned that your your brother it also you know he's he's played goldendarkness ahead and put my equipment on and we'll come do breakaways on you for hours and I think you know as much as some people might think that doesn't sound fun I I loved it it was awesome what I guess could we maybe expand on that a little bit and just talk about like what did that what did it mean to be you know in that moment where now it's like it's like Hey listen you're going to just be taking Reps for hours um what did it mean for you um especially as you're you know you're falling in love with this sport obviously again like we've said it runs in the blood in your blood but you're falling you're truly falling in love with this sport what is it meant for you to like you know start off by just taking all of those reps everyone says it's about reps it's about reps it's about reps but I don't know that they literally mean just taking slapshots for like three hours or whatever what did it mean for you to to go through that experience and to just like like you know obviously it had a tremendous impact on you throughout your career yeah I think uh the thought of that now I wouldn't necessarily you know sign up for it but for me it was the only opportunity I got to be a goalie so I was taking you know any opportunity I could to be able to put on the pads and go out and be a goalie so I think that that's kind of what really made me love it yeah my only opportunity yeah I I respect that tremendously uh a lot of people would be very deterred by constantly just seeing a of slap shots uh I Know Myself included I been like you know what I'll take defense because at least then I get a break you know uh so it's a it's a testament to your character so that's fantastic um so um you know as I had mentioned off the top um you attended Quinnipiac University could you I think it's really interesting and intriguing to find out a little bit about you know why you selected Quin p and then I think at the same time talk a little bit about the decision between going to NCAA or division one versus staying in Canada doing us sports or what is now us Sports rather wasn't at the time for sure yeah I think my eyes were kind of always set on going to the NCAA you know I remember when I uh played my first year with our high school team in grade nine I had all the girls were introduced to us and where they were committed to going in the NC and I kind of you know that's kind of the only way I looked and kind of never looked back I guess um and as for like picking Quinnipiac the I just loved the campus you know I don't I didn't want to be in a big city in the middle of a city on a big campus um it's a small like beautiful campus you know you're walking everywhere um very Compact and even our facilities at the rank and everything and all the staff is just amazing I think that's that's a huge reason what led me there so did you also and I this is something that I've discovered recently is that the the you know when you when you select your University when you commit to that University it's actually a lot earlier than people expected right like you expect it to be like you know for me it's like oh I'm going to University next year like I have to figure out where I'm going um but like this is actually a much earlier process what did it feel like for you to make such a decision so early on in your uh in your high school career yeah I mean I think that for me again the coaching staff like they were so interested in me they really wanted me to be there and I think that that made me feel really good about that and about made me feel good about you know the place I was going to spend the next well I guess most people would have only thought four but I spent six years there um so I think that really helped me in that do you uh could you talk a little bit about maybe um also um the ex you know the extra time that you spent at quinc um and how your time just kind of overall with quinc you know that's a profoundly great uh program uh constantly like you know when you look at the when you look at the standings Quinnipiac is consistently one of the best programs um in the NCAA do you want to like talk about the impact that it also had like that program had on you personally we'll get we'll get into the onai stuff but just you personally yeah I think that the culture is just so amazing like a big thing for us is trusting the process and I think that couldn't be more true for me and my time there like I started out I red shirted my freshman year I played three games my sophomore year you know and the whole time I was just trusting that process and it's really made me grow as a person and you know got to where I am now and I think that I have that Quinn aak in the whole program and everyone around me to thank for that I love that yeah absolutely and and you know we we talk about Quinnipiac but we also need to talk about what it was like to make that adjustment between you know St Mary's prep to Quinnipiac could you talk a little bit about um about that just like what was that transition like like that's that isn't easy right um what was that like for you yeah I think you know everyone talks about how it's such an adjustment and you never really know until you actually experience it and I think that getting to red shirt my freshman year is truly like one of the greatest blessings for me there like I think it really allowed me to get comfortable like I still I was dressing for every game I was on the bench every game I was in the full routine of kind of a regular player but without the pressure or the thought of you know actually having to play in a game so I was really just able to focus on myself and getting to transition into that next level okay so let's talk uh uh about you know it's it's you know we talked about you know the early days you know those reps you took on the on the uh on the pond um maybe early on you may not have necessarily wanted to do it but you did it you stuck through it um um you know you took over for your brother that's fantastic um we talked a little bit about you know that that transition between St Mary's and now Quinnipiac could you talk a little bit about you know and we're going to get into the pwhl stuff in just a in in a moment but could you talk a little bit about what that ultimately what those experiences like how have those experiences really shaped you as an individual and we're going to again we're we're going to talk about the Oni stuff but like you as an individual being able to go through those experiences um you know uh you know maybe there's some resilience some perseverance there as well but could you talk a little bit about what like what those experiences have done for you as an individual for sure yeah I think I think a big thing for me is really I learned you know to be where my feet are and that you know everything everything's going to come together right um of course I you know I started from the bottom at Quin Pak and kind of worked my way up so being able to do that and just having the support around me and everything um was truly remarkable and I think that it just showed me like how resilient I could be um and and being able to do that I think is kind of the biggest thing I want to know that's that's great it's and it's really about resilience and I think especially with the women's game we're seeing and like I cannot express this enough that I I really do hope this is finally you know the the moment in which things um things change for the women's game uh it is long overdue and I'm I'm hopeful that this is finally that moment um could you um you know when we think when we reflect now back on your time at quinc um again a tremendously great program tons of really great players um you know uh some that are uh that have or uh have recently played for Ottawa as well could you talk a little bit about like what are some of those favorite memories and let's let's let's keep the a Oni stuff you know let's let's let's table that for a moment everyone wants to know what are some of those favorite memories you had of Quinnipiac off the ice specifically off the ice I guess you could maybe say this is going to tie in a little bit to on ice but if you talk to anyone on my team you know that sewer before hockey games is like my favorite thing ever it's my favorite thing we do it for half an hour sometimes even longer you know if we get to the rank early or whatever like that that's one of my favorite things to do and I think it's just such a such great moment you know spending with your teammates every game day doing that yeah so talk a little like share more about that what what what is what is that and then why is it still something that you like you there was no hesitation in that answer like that was the first thing that came to mind why is that I I think it's just a good uh well obvious so SE is when you know you're playing soccer before the game kind of keep up uh but with elimination we like to do um so it gets quite competitive and I think it's just a good way to kind of you know loosen up have some fun and also be a little bit competitive before and something you know totally totally different from hockey as well I was never never a soccer player so um my freshman year I was I was really not very good but I've definitely uh developed a little bit in that okay so I have more questions to ask about that but I feel like this is a perfect segue because you say that you're not uh you were never good at soccer um but you are you are good at uh other sports and that includes softball um which um we're going to get into more of the random things that people may not know about uh Logan angers in just a moment but or at the last segment but um softball that was I I that came out of left field for me to see that um you're also and you're really good at softball um could you maybe you know being a multisport athlete um could you talk a little bit about what it was was about softball that you know that you loved so much uh so early on I think for me not that not that softball wasn't super serious for me but it was kind of a time for fun like I I loved it like you know hockey was super serious always wanted to you know do my best whatever and softball I think you know naturally I was just I was pretty good at it and I just enjoyed it so much and that's kind of what um was always really attractive to me growing up you know it was kind of my fun thing to do in the summer obviously love playing hockey as well but um being able to you know have a different team and a different uh group of teammates and friends um was something super awesome and so let's continue the things that people may not know about Logan angers I feel like I'm just answering this inevitable question later on for you um so I hope you have a different answer because um I'll keep going but um I would so what people may not know is that uh you were actually selected to play in the Canada Summer Games in softball um but you ended up being unable to attend that um because of you know Hockey being selected you know no big deal uh to to join Team Canada um what was it like you know we these podcasts are obviously about a lot about hockey and stuff like that and and that's great but I want to know what was it like for you to hear your name being selected to you know especially for in softball rather especially for a sport that you're like I just enjoy it like it's just a summer thing for me and then somehow it's like oh I'm actually good at this and people are recognizing that what did that mean to you yeah I think it was awesome you know it was a it was a u21 team and I was 17 there was I think two or three of us that were 17 we were the youngest ones there so I think just being able to look up to all the other girls that were there as well and you know how much work they've put into it and how how awesome they were at the game and how much they loved it I think being able to be a part of that was something really cool and you know I'll cherish cherish that forever for sure what did it mean for you to like or I guess rather when you reflect back on that experience um obviously you Cho again you chose to to to you know attend Team Canada uh sorry the hockey side not the softball side but just to kind of like those relationships those experiences that you had how do you think you TR you were able to translate those to how you prepare for a game how you you know follow through how you actually perform in a game all those sorts of things yeah I think because softball was something that I just did purely because I just enjoyed it you know I was always rather calm in it I'm not super stressed and I think that that's a huge part of my hockey game is how calm I am as a goalie and I think that that probably comes a lot from you know being so in sports for so long and so many sports like all year round um and just kind of having fun with it and being able to bring that kind of calmness to to my game yeah and I think you know uh one of the things that I've learned from uh the fortunate uh opportunities I've had to connect with um you know the athletes i' I've been able to chat with is you know it isn't about your individual stats you know it isn't like they're great don't get me wrong like absolutely and I I you know I I've written about you I've written about the you know how you're going to contribute to the success of pwhl Ottawa um but that isn't what this is about but at the same time I think what you're what I hear is that the way that you're able to approach the game you you aren't putting so much pressure on yourself you're just enjoying the game you're enjoy you've been able to take the the excitement the enjoyment from um from softball and combine that with your you know again like we've said a number of times the the the the fact that like hockey runs in your blood um is that kind of how you approach you know again how calm you are how successful you've been like you when you when and I cannot stress enough how much people need to look up your stats again I know they're just numbers but the the numbers speak for themselves in just in terms of how incredibly successful you were throughout your collegiate career and there weren't dips right it's like sometimes like first year it's a bit of an adjustment second year you're a bit better third year sometimes you dip again you were consistently great throughout your collegiate career do you think that you were able to again take what you learned just with your passion for softball um and not necessarily wanting or you know not necessarily having the you know you're you're not necessarily going to pursue that but do you think that you were able to apply a lot of what you learned to just how you perceive the game of hockey yeah I think that just you know being able to go out there and do what you love and just kind of do it because you love it right I think that's when you kind of have the least amount of stress on your shoulders and you know I think for me that's that's when I perform you know the best I think the years kind of growing up to that and like red shirting the first year again and putting being able to put all the work in and then when the time comes to just be able to to go out and perform I think that that's a huge part of it so okay and and and I love that and I think you know you're now you know as we we've progressed throughout your career now and now we're at the the next you know incredible milestone in your career which is that you've now officially joined the pwl so before we get into that I want to know for you MH knowing that this is a professional League seeing the success of this inaugural season what does this mean to you to be a part of this now I think it's just so unbelievable like if you would have asked me two years ago Even If This Were a possibility I would have kind of just said I I have no idea I have no idea what's going to happen next I don't know you know what what the future of hockey looks like for women and I think being able to be a part of this is just so remarkable there's so many women that have made this possible and I'm so it's so awesome that it's you know a possibility for everyone and that I get to be a part of it as well yeah and you're essentially you know like yes this is the second year of the league but you're still in on the ground floor um so it must feel like I know from an from the outside I'm thrilled with everything that we've seen in the pwl it's been so incredible so inclusive so enthusiastic the fan support and uh you just be prepared because a fan support in Ottawa it's it's League uh you know League wide people know uh ottaa is very very enthusiastic about uh the support of their team Could you um could we peel back the curtains a little bit um you know you were signed as a free agent would you you know for however much you can share just talk about what that process was like like just in terms of free agency in general and then I think this is also a unique opportunity for us to be able to hear from a free agent who wasn't drafted by the team to like why Ottawa yeah I mean free agency was you know nothing too crazy for me but when Ottawa had reached out I think that just seeing everything that they have to offer like with their facilities fans staff and like just the team in general as well and like kind of how I would fit into the team I think that that's a huge reason why I thought that this was this was a good place for me and as well like like I said when I was choosing Quinn Pak you know having a coaching staff that is interested in do and wants you to be there is a huge part of you know wanting to be somewhere as well and they thought i' would be a good fit and I think that's a huge that's a huge thing yes you are going to be a tremendous fit here in Ottawa and I cannot wait for you to experience the Ottawa fans yes um yeah it's uh in the facilities it's just going to be like you said it's just going to be absolutely fantastic for you and speaking of fantastic and and playing you know with someone equally is fantastic you're now a part of a a goalie tandem uh with emeron smash me uh gwyna Phillips as well uh she recently signed with uh you know she was drafted she signed um what does it mean to you to be able to be in a goalie tandem you know I mean we can speak this goalie tandem is incredible like I I say tandem you know Trio if you will um but what does it mean to be a part of that Trio and especially as being a Canadian you know we both watched MH like on TV and now you're G to be like you're going to be with her what does that mean to you yeah I think you know obviously like you said Mash is someone you watched on TV for years you know Olympic experience is just is just so awesome and it's something that I'm really excited to kind of learn from her and I think that as as well we're both I think we're very different styles of hockey players hockey goalies obviously um and I think that that's kind of exciting and see what I can learn from her and all just all of her experience and now a word from her sponsor this episode is sponsored by Sports nutritionist 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like like there's like it's like don't get me wrong the team is great and the team has made huge strides this off season between drafting free agent signings all those sorts of things this team is Far and Away much better than they were last season you're a big part of that um this the fan base is like is it you know is it the start of the season yet we're ready for the start of the Season we don't care about let's fast forward through the summer like let's get into winter we're ready for this what does it mean for you to be joining an organization that has such an incredibly excited enthusiastic passionate engaging fan base as uh in the nation's capital yeah I think obviously you see it on TV but I think nothing's going to compare to what it's actually like in person and I think I'm really excited about that because it's just it's going to be crazy and I think that again the fact that this league is even here and possible is awesome but the fact that there's thousands thousand and thousands of people coming to every single game and they're so dedicated is is just unbelievable yeah just be prepared to uh you know for the uh it's going to be loud it's gonna be real loud um yeah Ottawa is uh I'm always biased but Ottawa definitely has um an incredible fan base um and I can't wait for them to see you um as we kind of wrap up here first of all again thank you so much Logan this has been this has been so much fun I've really enjoyed this uh getting to know you and and to have this conversation um as be has become tradition in this podcast your favorite part of this uh of this episode um yes is the um the you know the the crack team here I always say the crack team here at the ringside rundown podcast which is just literally my dog and I it's just we do a ton of a ton of hard work a ton of research here um we have developed U my dog and I again um have developed uh a foolproof um accurate 100% accurate um you know set of questions that are going to um allow and provide the fans of you um the newest fans of you the existing fans of you another layer of understanding who is Logan angers are you ready to take the test I guess so y as ready as she's ever gonna be and I can't wait okay so um let's start off with a an easy question here okay let's break the ice um not that I've already not asked you a thousand other questions already um what is your go-to pregame meal o well at quak it was always always chicken rice peel off um and salad and there's always beans but I didn't have the green beans just just the salad I always ask that question and then I'm like I really should have done something different for dinner um so and Bic you can't forget the balsamic dress see there we go there we go uh that's fantastic and it's nice it's not just chicken and pastas so um so points points for points for angers um what are you most proud of from this past Season O I really I I went from really easy to like one of the most profound questions I could have asked so right try to keep you on your toes I think winning our nutmeg Championship was really a huge moment for us this year and I think it's something I've won four of them now in six years and I think that's something really awesome that we did this year so um just because um you know in in interest in time I I didn't touch on that could you just talk a little bit so my apologies but could you talk a little bit about what that meant for you and like what that experience was like because I think you know for anyone who's like Who's Logan angers have you know yeah or or your existing fans who are like we want to hear more about her we want to hear this experience could you talk a little bit about what it was like to go through that and win those championships and like no big deal you just won four of them so you know yeah well the is a is a tournament of all the teams in Connecticut first of all so it's kind of you know the best team in Connecticut which obviously is in a huge state but it's still pretty cool to win and I think that being able to kind of play play two games win two win two tough games for the most part you know playing against Yale and Yukon are not are not easy teams to play against um and being able to kind of pull that together in the middle of our season we always talk about it being our our hopefully our first trophy of the year um obviously hoping for some you know ecac championships later on and NCAA Championship and hoping that the the nutmeg is the first one of the year for us okay and I forgot to ask this earlier so now I'm going to lump it into the 20 Questions segment of the show but what was it like for you as a Canadian to just to be you know uh to go to the states to play in the states like what was that like for you I mean our team is full of Canadians has always been our coaches are all have all lived in Canada or Canadian so I think that that was a huge piece in kind of just feeling at home there um obviously some things are a little bit different and people will make fun of the way you say a few things but a boot is always the one it's always a boot it's always a boot but I still don't hear myself saying a boot but anyway yeah yeah um okay so that's that's that's great and I want to know and I think um you know uh pwhl Ottawa fans especially are going to want to know the answer to this question so no pressure but how would you describe your style of play as a goldendent in my game over the years at Quinn Pak you know I would maybe wouldn't have said that my freshman year but I think that's a huge part of how I've grown obviously I'm a bigger goalie um and kind of just being super efficient in everything I do you know um nothing nothing appears to kind of bother me on the ice and just kind of keeping that calm calm front for everyone else is is who I am as goalie yeah and I think that's that's a that's a great answer right like I think you know the calmer your goenda the team is right like you don't have to like oh you know the goalie back there isn't freaking out like we've got this if I if I as a forward or Defender make a mistake didn't read the play right she's got it yeah exactly yeah um this is also a really unique opportunity to be able to connect with athletes in the offseason I think when you're I mean I say offseason there's let's be honest you're an athlete there's never really an offseason but um technically there's no you're not on the ice all of the time playing you know uh games um so this is a really unique opportunity to kind of understand like what does an off seon look like for not just a goal tender but specifically for the one and only Logan anchors yeah I mean obviously still still doing hockey um me and Schroeder from New York and Kirk from Toronto actually we three of us skate with a group of boys all summer we've skated with them for five or six years so it's just kind of funny it's been three of us skating with a group of boys back here in Winnipeg um as well I I play softball in the summer you know like I said it's something that I just really enjoy doing so playing you know casual softball and then as well um on the weekends I a cabin that I love to go to and do wake seing there is is is my big thing all right so uh there's a lot of you know there's a lot of work that still goes into your offseason but you get to balance that out with some fun exactly yeah work Monday to Friday and then after I skatee Friday I can head out to the cabin yeah you can't get off the ice quick enough on Friday hit me that's fair that's fair that's pretty much my routine we get off the ice at 11:45 and I'm getting home getting showered and ready to go yeah already have the pads off everything you're ready yeah you're ready I'm I'm ready to hit the uh hit the cabin um so um during this is always a fun question um so during the season who owned the music in the dressing room never me absolutely never me okay okay this is going to be this is going to be a great follow-up question and I can't way to get to that oh dear um a lot of the time it was Alexa hosin probably has done it for most of the time I've been there okay uh and was there like a like was there a playlist that she would put on or was like it was like she'd have a playlist for game days that she would play um for practices I feel like we kind of threw it around a little bit who who got to do it and then in the gym kind of everyone would just go over and put a few songs on but again I don't I ever did all right so then um speaking of Music um you know you may not have played uh have contributed to the playlists at any point um uh which is fine I wouldn't have either um but if you had to like pick one song to listen to for the rest of your life oh gosh what would it be and I always say this the caveat to this is that it doesn't have to be on all the time because let's be honest that would suck but if you're going to listen to a song it has to be this song I think I'd have to go country for sure um oh probably probably Luke Colmes now I'm just trying to I'm trying to slowly work my way there yeah we we started narrowing it down it's country okay who country okay Luke comes right I think I don't know I do really like when it rains it pours okay I might I might just have to stick with that again I'm not the music person okay well no that's uh that's now you're locked into uh lcom so that's fine listen I'm from the country so you speak yeah you you say country I'm I'm I'm all in um so um what's something that Still Remains on your bucket list that's tough because like I've traveled a lot in the summer um been a lot of places I think the biggest thing on my bucket list was doing a hot air balloon ride in turkey and I and I did that last year and it was awesome so I think [Music] now that sounds like a lot of fun though it was it was that was like a thing on my list and being able to do that was awesome and I feel like I to replace that on my list much time coming up with this list and then you're like great now I checked it off now to find something else to F fill that spot yes um I think if we're sticking with traveling I really want to go to Alaska Alaska okay anything in particular you want to like is it just go to Alaska or is there something like Adventure that you'd want to take there no nothing nothing in particular really okay that's fair I like that I like that um we we had touched on the softball part of this earlier and I feel like I I already gave you an answer here but I'm still going to follow up with it um what's something that people may not know about Logan angers well yeah first first would always be softball and I think even with softball I think I've won more things with softball than I ever have with hockey which is kind of just an interesting fact you know like more tournaments leagues whatever is is kind of a kind of an interesting fact but if I want to go to just a fun fact that we're doing and introducing oursel you know in a new hockey team I always like to say I once found a uh fet in my hockey bag okay so some clear follow-up questions there what happened how did that happen we have a we have a room in our garage with all of our Hawk equipment and I guess the garage was left open and I went to go pack it up one day you know getting ready to go to our game um this is in Winnipeg and all of a sudden there's a fet inside the hockey bag it uh we pulled it out and we got it into our dog's cage and it was it was a very friendly like it was obviously someone's pet don't know whose pet we took it to the Humane Society and that was kind of the end of the hat but yeah I was gonna say ferrets aren't native to Winnipeg so that's why at least to my knowledge uh so it was rather surprising to hear that but that's a that's that's top tier fun fact right there right yeah exactly well we had talked to our neighbor who's a wildlife guy and he thought it was some something that's like poisonous and like you shouldn't touch and I was like well just went all over my hockey bag so it's touched everything now yeah but we found out it was a baret and pretty clearly someone's pet because it kind of went into the my dog's cage pretty pretty easily yeah yeah very tame um I I realized shame on me for not asking this earlier though um you you play softball but like there are a number of different positions you could play in softball what position do you actually play in softball I'm sure it's h no surprise that I was always a catcher yeah I asked it knowing knowing that might be the answer yeah when I played at Quinny Pak though I I was largely a first baseman I wasn't I wasn't catching anymore there why the transition what made that transition I think just being a catcher at that level was just too much for something that I wasn't you know doing and practicing super hardcore all year round um first base I always also played a little bit um so that was kind of why I transitioned to that but again in actual games I was pretty much just a hit as well yeah that's that's fair um lastly um what is something this again I'd like to I'd like to end on like a really profound question it's all over you know we're talking about fets we're talking about all these different things um but I want to end on uh you know an insightful question which will inevitably um uh be answered by you with an equally insightful answer um what is something that MO motivates and inspires you and that can be either professionally that can be personally that could be both however you want to take this yeah I think I think seeing all little girls that you know look up to you a couple weeks ago I worked at a camp that was 30 or there was 40 young girl goalies and we were on the ice with them all week and just seeing how much each of them you know look up to you and how much of a role model you can be for them is like awesome that they they're able to get a role model like that you know it was again like us us there's four or five of us that are we'll be playing in the pwl next year we're running that camp and I think it was just an awesome experience and I think it's a huge huge motivator to know that you know there's these little girls that can look up to me and to be able to show be a good role mod for them is something I something I would uh love to do okay so I know I said that that was the last question but now I have a followup question on this so my apologies but um how as so as someone who isn't an athlete or isn't you know in the public eye or anything like that how do you like how do you shoulder that like what like how do you carry that I don't I don't want to it isn't a burden but it's that like there's like there is a lot of pressure that comes with being you know especially as being in the ground floor of the pwhl having such a successful collegiate career all these sorts of things how do you how do you deal with that yeah I think I think largely kind of leading by example you know these little girls are just going to look up to you and maybe it's not that you're having a conversation with them every day or whatever it is but being able to kind of be be authentically you I guess and and leading by example and kind of just setting a good precedent as much as you can you know obviously everything's not always going to be perfect but kind of just driving for that okay well I have so many more questions for you but we have unfortunately run out of time um but Logan I just wanted to say once again this has been so much fun uh We've laughed we you know you've provided so many great answers um I cannot wait to um to see you introduced to the Ottawa Market um the excitement here they're ready for you they're excited for you I know that you're feeling the same way about them um I just want to wish you uh the best of luck in this upcoming season but at the end of the day like just know like our conversation these conversations mean so much and I can't thank you enough for uh for taking the time out if you're evidently busy um uh off seon couple of days left before you get to hit hit the uh hit the uh the the cabin so uh thanks so much for doing this I can't I can't appreciate you enough for doing that yes thank you so much as well I'm so so excited for everything that's to come oh I cannot wait um so there you have it folks for Logan angers I'm Chris Sinclair and this has been the rinkside rundown podcast cheers [Music]