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A Thing of Beauty • 16 Sports Oakville Beaver SPORTS EDITOR: JON KUIPERIJ Phone 905-632-0588 (ext. 294) email [email protected] Thursday, February 14, 2013 Thursday, • OAKVILLE BEAVER MILESTONE MOMENT: Oakville resident Cody Goloubef www.insideHALTON.com scored his first National Hockey League goal Monday in Columbus, helping the Blue Jackets to a 6-2 victory over the visiting San Jose Sharks. PHOTO COURTESY COLUMBUS BLUE A thing JACKETS of beauty Cody Goloubef’s first NHL goal comes on blast from point By Jon Kuiperij get here,” Goloubef said. “It was more or less (Tuesday), League’s Milton IceHawks and Oakville Blades in the mid- BEAVER SPORTS EDITOR hearing from all the people coming out of the woodwork 2000s. Goloubef played three years at Wisconsin and a couple who helped me become the player I am today, the minor seasons for the American Hockey League’s Springfield As a defenceman, Cody Goloubef knew long ago that if he hockey coaches and players I played with. It’s pretty special. Falcons before appearing in one game for the Blue Jackets ever were to score his first National Hockey League goal, it Everybody had a different part of it. (Tuesday) was cool to sit last spring. He started out this season in Springfield once likely wouldn’t be of the top corner or flashy deke variety. back and relive it a little bit.” again, earning the call-up to Columbus last week and playing Monday in Columbus, the 23-year-old Oakville resident Among the hundred-plus people who contacted Goloubef in the Blue Jackets’ last four games. did score that first NHL marker, a low blast from just inside Tuesday were former University of Wisconsin teammates and “It doesn’t seem like long ago I was suiting up in Twin the blue line that found its way through a screen and past current NHL players Ryan McDonagh (New York Rangers), Rinks (now Joshua’s Creek Arenas),” Goloubef said. “It’s a San Jose Sharks netminder Thomas Greiss. Brendan Smith (Detroit Red Wings) and Adam Burish (San fun journey. And I think most guys who have done it would The play perhaps lacked the aesthetics that earn play-of- Jose), as well as New York Islanders blueliner Thomas Hickey. agree you wouldn’t have it any other way.” the-day honours on nightly sportscasts. But to Goloubef, it Goloubef also heard from longtime friends and fellow Now that he’s got his first goal out of the way, Goloubef is was as pretty as they get. Oakville NHLers John Tavares and Sam Gagner. Sam’s father focused on ensuring he stays with the Blue Jackets for the “It went pretty well, to be honest,” the former Oakville Dave, who scored 30-plus goals in six straight seasons for the remainder of the campaign. He sees an opportunity with a Trafalgar High School student said of his milestone moment, Minnesota/Dallas franchise from 1988-94, was one of the young Columbus team that struggled to start the season which proved to be the winning goal in the Blue Jackets’ 6-2 people Goloubef considers most influential in his hockey (which led to Tuesday’s firing of general manager Scott upset of the Sharks. “It was a good shot, and it was just a career. Howson) but is showing signs of turning things around. good play. The forwards helped me out, getting me the puck “He was a big part of the development for me. He pushed Columbus outshot the Edmonton Oilers 40-13 in a 3-1 loss and giving me some time.” me towards the NCAA route and really led me on a good Sunday, then rode a strong effort from Oakville goaltender Immediately after the puck hit the back of the net, path,” Goloubef said of his former coach in the Greater Steve Mason to the win over the Sharks Monday. Goloubef — the nephew of Hockey Hall of Fame inductee Toronto Hockey League system. “And (Wisconsin coach) “It’s been a process here. We’ve got a lot of new faces and Dick Duff — looked very much the part of a veteran who had Mike Eaves really pushed me to be the best player I could be. a lot of new guys. We’ve been doing the right things the last done it before. He calmly celebrated with his teammates on Those two guys really did the hands-on work developing me few games and were not getting rewarded,” Goloubef said. the ice, fist-bumped with all the players on the Columbus as a player.” “Confidence is starting to build. We’ve got a good, fast, bench and then came off the ice for a rest. It wasn’t until the Goloubef also credits his parents, Peter and Laura, for young, dangerous team here that I don’t think gets all that following day that the significance of the goal really set in. their support of his career, which has taken off since he was much credit. I think once we get rolling, we will be a difficult “For myself, you kind of expect it out of yourself once you patrolling the blue line for the Ontario Junior Hockey team to stop.”.
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