“We have to sign Ty up for roller hockey. He came home after with a simple and direct message – one that would have a lasting impact on the family for years. When Ty was about three years old, his father went over to the roller hockey facility to play a pick-up game with some friends. Little did they know the most influential piece of real estate in their lives actually laid a mile away from their new house. However crazy that may seem now, it was far from their thoughts when they built the house when Ty was just a toddler. Charles, Missouri to O’Fallon with their new son Ty, hockey rinks were few and far between. So, when Rob and Kelley Farmer moved 15 minutes down I-70 from St. 99 did spend half of the 1995-96 campaign with the Blues. Louis thinking they’d discover the next Wayne Gretzky, although No. But the area was no northeast, Minnesota or Michigan. The Blues were just about good enough to inspire a few kids to suit up for youth hockey. It was never barren of hockey by any means. Louis” were not synonymous with one another. There was a time in which “hockey” and “St. It made sense this Clark Cup victory felt like the center of the universe.
His smile spanned ear to ear and speechlessness was expected.
Farmer just had the moment of his life and lifted himself to heights he hadn’t previously imagined. There would be more instances of adversity coming.īut in that moment, nothing else mattered. Even his parents joked about it moments before it actually happened, hardly believing that anything of that magnitude could take place.Īnd it made sense why it was hard to believe when considering what Farmer had been through – the on-ice and off-ice hardships - what he was going through and what he had yet to face. It’s hard to blame Farmer for having trouble finding the right words to describe what had just taken place. “Unbelievable,” Farmer said of the moment. Though the arena had emptied out at that point, it was a small kind of bedlam. The Clark Cup was even hoisted and kissed behind him as the interview was taking place. You know the questions – “what was going through your mind when…” and “what was it about this team…” and then the best, and simplest one: “how does this feel?”įarmer could barely get the words out and he had to contain himself from exploding with joy as his team celebrated around him. This reporter was tasked with asking the basic questions one asks the newly crowned champions after touching the league’s peak. The excitement practically jumped through the camera.Ī USHL reporter stood with Ty Farmer at center ice of the Covelli Centre after his Fargo Force defeated the Youngstown Phantoms for the 2018 Clark Cup.
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