The Hockey News’s Sam Stockton posted a fine profile of Red Wings prospect and turning-pro Grand Rapids Griffin Carter Mazur:
Since getting back home to Michigan [from the World Championship], Mazur has “been weight training five days a week, so that’s another part of it and then right after that you eat, you go on the ice. So it’s been a good setup and look forward to continuing over the summer.”
It’s an arrangement that suits the natural rink rat perfectly. Asked to describe himself as a player, Mazur says “I’m more of a hard worker I would say, and when I stick to that, then my skill comes out. I feel like if I can have an ‘A’ game, but my ‘B’ game is good. I wanna have a good ‘B’ game as well. But I feel like when I’m on my ‘A’ game, that’s when most of the skill is happening, but as long as I’m a hard worker, I think everything takes care of itself.”
“I would say I like pissing people off,” he says, offering further explanation. He notes that he picked up the idea of “A” and “B” games from Dan Cleary, Detroit’s Assistant Director of Player Development who also played ten seasons for the Wings. “That’s a big part of my game, so I feel like when that’s going on, and I’m getting under people’s skin that’s what I consider a ‘B’ game and then ‘A’ I would consider I’m doing all that as well as skill plays, good passing, scoring goals.”
“I love chirping,” Mazur continues, with an unrepentant grin. “I like getting under people’s skin. Don’t care who you are. It’s something I enjoy doing and it makes hockey fun.”
