PROFILE
DY L A N
MYSKIW
LIKE
SON
BY LES LAZARUK
Sports Director,
Saskatoon Media Group
Saskatoon Blades’ play-by-play
Photos by Brandi Pollock, CKLQ
and James Carey Lauder
7 0 | G AME O N | D EC EM BER 2017
LIKE
FATHER
BRANDON – More often than
not, a father feels a sense of
pride and is humbled when
his son decides to emulate
what dad does. That wasn’t the
case, initially, for Ed Myskiw
when it came to his son.
“He didn’t want me to be a
goalie at first,” explained Dylan
Myskiw, a goaltender with the
WHL’s Brandon Wheat Kings.
“I started off as a player, but
just seeing the goalie out there
and the equipment and all that,
I thought it was pretty cool.
“There was this one year, my
seven-year-old year or six-year-
old year, that our goaltender
quit on us. The equipment
got passed around the room
and I kept saying, ‘Dad, can I
be goalie?! Can I be goalie?!...
Oh, let’s leave it for other guys
to go around the room.’ I kept
convincing him until finally,
sure enough, he said yeah and
we went forward after that.”
According to Dylan, father
Ed was the driving force behind
the 18-year-old getting involved
in sports, especially hockey.
“He was my coach in spring
hockey, he was my goalie coach
and he just taught me while I
was growing up,” said Myskiw.
“He’s the biggest influence
I’ve had. He’s always wanted
me to get better. He’s taught
me a lot of stuff, just going
out to the outdoor rink and
shooting around on me.
“He thought he’d fire a
couple hard at me and try to
scare me not to be a goalie,”
he laughed at the memory.
“But sure enough, he’s like, ‘oh
man, he’s saving them all,’ so
I kind of took off from there
and he’s my biggest fan.”
When it comes to a self-
evaluation as a goaltender,
Myskiw describes himself as
athletic and “very technical.”
He’s pleased that he’s 6-foot-1,
noting that he could always get
taller and realizing that today’s
goalies rely more on size and
positioning than quickness