Game On Magazine 2017 Game On Magazine - Regular Season Edition | Page 71

AS TOLD TO CARTER BROOKS Photos by Bruce Fedyck, James Carey Lauder, Rik Fedyck, Jeff Miller and Graig Abel I N T E RV I E W Making it in the Desert BRENDAN LEIPSIC HEIGHT / 5’ 10 WEIGHT / 180 AGE / 23 According to his mother, Brendan Leipsic always skated to the beat of his own drum. “He didn’t care what people thought of him,” said Kathleen Leipsic a couple of seasons ago. “When people told him he couldn’t do it, he just went out and did it. He absolutely hates to lose. For Brendan, it has always been about winning. He doesn’t handle coming in second very well.” Brendan Leipsic makes no bones about it. There has only been one goal. Some way, somehow, this 5-foot- 10, 180-pound winger was going to play in the NHL. And this year, after