The first Asian player to be selected by NHL
Before June 28, Song Andong, for the vast majority of Chinese people is a strange name.
But at the 2015 North American Professional Hockey League (NHL) draft, the 18-year-old Beijing guy, who was born in 1997, was selected by the New York Islanders on the sixth round, which was founded in 1917 by NHL For the first time in a century, Chinese players were selected (in 2004, Fukuoka was selected by the Los Angeles Kings in the fourth round and was the first Asian player to be selected by NHL in history).
As the world's highest level of ice hockey league is one of the four major professional sports league in North America, every year around the world all 18 to 20-year-old hockey players can accept the league a total of 30 teams selection, this year's more than 600 players in the final draft Only 221 people in the seven rounds of the draft was phase NHL Coins.
This is not just a historical moment of the Chinese ice hockey, but also for the NHL. All the North American media will be locked in the Song Andong body, "Becomes lst Chinese Player (to become the first Chinese player)" This title abound, CBS Sports Network said, although not sure what the potential of Song Dong in the end, but he will Always remember the moment when the NHL draft was shouted to the name. ABC News Network said that there are probably millions of Chinese people stay up all night watching this historic draft.
In the election dust settled in the moment, Song Andong NHL draft was invited to the live studio, he looks unusually calm, later in the connection with the country, Song Andong or admitted that he had been a great happiness stun "At that moment a bit can not believe it is true ... ... the beginning is not nervous, how much I know the island people are interested in me, but after the end of the five draft pick, I am some restless, and this is the draft, anything could happen."
In fact, there have been some Chinese media move the wind, after Song Dong was selected, the media following him in South Florida shooting a day, Song Andong for the first time feel "like a star."
But at the 2015 North American Professional Hockey League (NHL) draft, the 18-year-old Beijing guy, who was born in 1997, was selected by the New York Islanders on the sixth round, which was founded in 1917 by NHL For the first time in a century, Chinese players were selected (in 2004, Fukuoka was selected by the Los Angeles Kings in the fourth round and was the first Asian player to be selected by NHL in history).
As the world's highest level of ice hockey league is one of the four major professional sports league in North America, every year around the world all 18 to 20-year-old hockey players can accept the league a total of 30 teams selection, this year's more than 600 players in the final draft Only 221 people in the seven rounds of the draft was phase NHL Coins.
This is not just a historical moment of the Chinese ice hockey, but also for the NHL. All the North American media will be locked in the Song Andong body, "Becomes lst Chinese Player (to become the first Chinese player)" This title abound, CBS Sports Network said, although not sure what the potential of Song Dong in the end, but he will Always remember the moment when the NHL draft was shouted to the name. ABC News Network said that there are probably millions of Chinese people stay up all night watching this historic draft.
In the election dust settled in the moment, Song Andong NHL draft was invited to the live studio, he looks unusually calm, later in the connection with the country, Song Andong or admitted that he had been a great happiness stun "At that moment a bit can not believe it is true ... ... the beginning is not nervous, how much I know the island people are interested in me, but after the end of the five draft pick, I am some restless, and this is the draft, anything could happen."
In fact, there have been some Chinese media move the wind, after Song Dong was selected, the media following him in South Florida shooting a day, Song Andong for the first time feel "like a star."
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