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Hilton Cadet Jake Coon overcoming obstacles by Warren Kozireski
Above, Jake Coon (#5) is part of the attack on goal in a recent game against Irondequoit. At left, he reacts as the puck makes it into the net in a hockey game against Irondequoit. He was credited with an assist on the first goal and scored in the second period. The Hilton Cadets won the game 5-2. Photographs by Walter Horylev.
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If you sit in the stands and watch a Hilton high school hockey game, you wouldn’t notice much different about Hilton junior forward Jake Coon. He skates well, is aggressive on the fore-check, covers the point when a defenseman is moving up into the offensive zone, is on the first penalty killing unit and isn’t afraid to set up camp at the side of the net and fend off opposing defensemen. Just like dozens of other players in Section V and high school hockey leagues across the state. But Coon does it all with one eye. “I was two years old and my dad noticed a little white spot in my eye,” Coon said. “He took me to the doctors and I was diagnosed with Retinoblastoma, which is cancer in the eye. “The only way to get rid of it was to remove my eye, but they couldn’t find a doctor (locally) to do it and finally we found one in Philadelphia that would do the operation.” But having one eye hasn’t deterred or kept him from pursuing the game of hockey that he loves. “I have to keep my head on a swivel more, but I wouldn’t really know the difference in the first place. I’ve never had a concussion or anything. “I grew up and was taught to play the game physical. Growing up (in the Monroe County Youth Hockey system) my coach has always been Scott Metcalfe, so he really put that into my head about the physical game.” His name is on a banner hanging on the wall at Lakeshore Hockey Arena for the 2010-11 Blue Division Champions in Pee Wee Major AA team he was on that was coached by Metcalfe, among others. “Jake and my son (Tanner) started playing hockey together and were on the ice together since they were three or four years old,” the Rochester Americans Hall of Famer and former first round draft pick of the Edmonton Oilers Scott Metcalfe said. “At a young age he was an unbelievable skater, so we focused on that he could fly like the wind and the fact that he loves the game and he plays so hard. “You could see early on that sometimes, if he was in a certain area, that he didn’t see the ice very well. But later he adapted his game to his body’s ability.” Coon was a team manager for Hilton in his freshman year, a third-line player as sophomore and now is seeing a regular shift on the second line as well as the penalty kill and second power-play unit as a junior. Continued on page 5
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