An ECHL Interview With Norfolk Admirals Goaltender Yaniv Perets

For Carolina Hurricanes prospects, this has been a tough season as they don’t have an AHL team, and despite not being the main NHL affiliate of the Norfolk Admirals, the two teams have an agreement, which is where the Canes have been sending their prospects this season, at least the ones who have stayed in the United States and one of those prospects is goaltender Yaniv Perets, a Quebec native who seemed to click with the sport, “Hockey was one of my first sports, I don’t know what drew me to it, my parents always told me when I was a kid that I always had a helmet on or a pacifier in my mouth just something I’ve always connected with, grew up playing street hockey and just always had a hockey stick in my hand and I guess it’s something that just clicked with me and it always seemed like goaltending from the start was where I wanted to be” said Perets.

Perets spent three years at Quinnipiac University, where he spent three years with the Bobcats and was the starter in his last two years as he put up incredible numbers going 56-9-5 with a 1.34 GAA, .935SV% and 27 shoutouts while also taking numerous awards including being a Hobey Baker Finalist twice, Goaltender of the Year twice, and the Bobcats would go on to win the National Championship in 2023 after beating the University of Minnesota 3-2 in OT, “I’ll forever be indebted to that program there, just like for all the alumni that made that program what it is today is pretty special, all the coaching staff all the coaches that were there before, just being there was amazing. The culture there, professionalism and the school also was great, really beautiful, great people around you and just some of the best friends I’ll ever make in my life. It was pretty special to be there for my time; I look back at that and know I’ll always have a home in Hampton, “said Perets when talking about his time at Quinnipiac.