Brett Skibba proving his value following impressively-fast start

Entering a season in which many spectators had unknown expectations for the team due to new ownership, coaching, and core players—following a viciously fast start through the months of September and October, second-year forward Brett Skibba is showing off his value to the city of Springfield.

Through the first fourteen games into the 2012-2013 regular season, the nineteen year old forward out of Verona, Wisconsin, has already set a career-high for a single season in goals scored with ten—and as of right now, he happens to lead the Junior Blues in that department by a pretty wide margin.

In his first season with Springfield, Skibba played in fifty-seven games on the year. While he didn’t see the ice as much night-in and night-out as he is right now, he managed to finish the season with eleven assists, four goals, and a total of seventeen points. Not bad for an eighteen year old in his first season against this level of competition, ehh?

Well, one season later, at the age of nineteen—as well as a premeire player on the team, Skibba has already scored ten goals, assisted four more, and leads the team in the points department with fourteen total. Last season Brett finished at -11 on the ice for the season, but through fourteen games this season, he is already at +3, and seemingly continues to get better and better each time out on the ice for another shift.

While the 5’11, 185 pound forward won’t intimidate many opponents by the looks, Skibba is a kid with a lot of agility and has a lot of skills with the puck; and that in itself will intimidate you more out on the ice over many other abilities.

Following the departures of some very talented kids that the Junior Blues helped move on to D1 colleges such as Gabe Antoni, Kyle Cook, Joseph Pontasch and Chris Sitler—Skibba, of all players, had to be anxiously awaiting for this opportunity to come his way.

Now that the opportunity has arrived, Skibba is flourishing in it and thriving like no other. Last weekend when the team defeated the first-place Port Huron Fighting Falcons in both games at home, he scored five total goals—which included a hat-trick in the 5-3 on Friday, then followed up with two goals on Saturday in the teams 4-2 win.

For being the longest running franchise inside the North American Hockey League, the Springfield Junior Blues new standard under new head coach Tony Zaowski involves this team competing in every game all season long. Well, with the effort and results from Skibba thus far, if he can continue to keep this up, this team could make a lot of noise! As the ole’ famous saying goes though, only time will tell.

One thing is for sure though, Brett Skibba has officially arrived with no plans of slowing down!