GoPro: Japanese Ice Hockey Prodigy Aito Iguchi 

Pack Pvpers321 well seeing that in order to be good at hockey you have to start and play at a young age everyone who pursues a hockey career has played when they were young

He is very good a hockey 🏒

yes he is fricking amazing.

Yes he was a child hockey prodigy with a lot of courage! But now he has to really try and make the NHL if he wants to reach his full potential! If you are interested I have actually done an updated video discussing Aito Iguchi on my channel and what his chances are of making the NHL!

Haters will always be there, because they are afraid of pursuing their own aspirations if they even have any. Easy target to pick on since as they said he wouldn't stand out if he was from power house countries like SWE,CA,FIN,RUS etc.

That means a lot to me! Thank you for watching

Pavel Barber no thank you for what you're doing for this kid. Can't wait to see what happens in the future for y'all.

+Pavel Barber I thought you were at 100 k subs the heck and if not you will be

was that move @3:34 100% GoPro? doenst look like that

You need to watch some more 11-year-old players. He really wasn't very good even then. Of course, he's 15 right now and Brad Lambert for instance is younger and is playing in top Finnish u20 league scoring at almost PPG, also playing in international Finnish u17 juniors with 8 points in 5 games, while Iguchi is where?

ijukaSSB your hating on him for no reason

ijukaSSB lol look him up now 🤦🏻‍♂️

1 of the best that i seen the only better i have seen plays on my team

Me too

cale saurage I think he will.... I’m 13 and he’s a lot bette then me and I play On a AAA team for high school. I bet he will be in the NHL.

You're gonna go far kid

You are such a great person man! Keep up the good work!

Great to see you here on GoPro's channel. Used to watch your videos all the time! Good for you man.

The people saying he is bad are always the people who achieved nothing in life and that need to bring others down to make themselves feel good. This kid is amazing and you're doing a great job teaching him!

you're nice man

scrub

Not really

@@ATTE22 y r u such a hater

@@ATTE22 I bet your only language is English

@@princessas7950 na na na its finnish

@@ATTE22 sure. So if it's so unimpressive, how come you can only speak English?

He needs to play in Canada or USHL and try to get drafted to the NHL in 2021! If you are interested I have actually done an updated video discussing Aito Iguchi on my channel!

@@darthchill8210 he is literally 12

@@tuck50 *17

This was his year and he wasn't even drafted. You don't need to be huge to play good hockey, but you can't be 5'3.

Jackson Berga same

Jackson Berga won't make it unless he's playing in the GTHL or something like that. Unfortunate truth

Jealous much?

Nathan McConnell no...

Nathan McConnell i was like this kid at his age except im a goalie. I would get shutouts every other game. As I got older everyone was getting better. It was harder, same thing is gonna happen to this kid. He wont be as good as he is now in 5 years

..but unfortunately he never made it

@@Rapidfire49I can’t help not to reply but sorry he’s doing good here in japan and he is the best actually☺️

Im an ok stickhandler so if we went against each other it probsly would take 1 to 2 minutes to finish me

Jaxon Brown in hockey you break your ankles either way

If I went against him I would break my own ankles and he would just skate around me

same here

Bro that kid was SO BAD

William Bonnell ur just jealous

Nate Dawg ur bad u think ur cool bringing down an 11 year old but ur like 45 still waiting to making the chel but u won’t cause ur too bad at the sport play baseball or basketball Bc hockey is for men no need to trash talk a kid with potiential

Nate Dawg people like u will get karma

kyle those guys commented a month ago when your comment was 1 week ago i don't think that they will see that

Andddddd he did nothing...

The Austin Hockey Show or when he came to a USHL showcase and did nothing

@@JaxReds Obviously doing more than you, he's gonna make it big one day while you're sitting in your basement shit talking a 16 year old... you'll go far in life lmao

@Harley Foubert Vlogs Its not about hating, its about recognizing that hes a good player but has been elevated by the fact that hes Japanese, hes a novelty.

@@JaxReds Nothing? Nothing but score

Dart Land ummmm ok one he’s in my hockey birth year two I’m pretty good at this game here

MrMikeyboy4 maybe learn how to spell

Seriously ya that kid gonna be scouted in peewee's

MrMikeyboy4 He lived with me when he was here in Vancouver and was my right winger all spring season it honestly makes me so mad when i see people making all these comments about him. he is always the best player on the ice and anyone that has played him will agree!

adam grenier i know its really sad, people just love to put down other just to make themselves feel better. was it a AA or AAA tourney or mix of both?

One thing I know is that Aito scored 15 goals and 8 assists in 6 games at the PeeWee AAA Elite Pat Quinn Classic.

Ikr?

The problem is the average height in japan is really low 5 ft 2. and if you are under 5 ft 7 you can forget the draft.

Le BeauGringo how about that guy Kailer Yamamoto? He's under 5'7 but got drafter first round.

He's 5'8 Jalen

whoops

Indeed... we don't know how tall and big he will be. Japanese people tend to be quite small and lightweight though, but it might not be so penalizing if he can compensate with an excellent technique. We'll see in the future. :)

And with the NHL being one of the "shorter" leagues, he'll be fine as long as he's right around 5' 10" or taller.

Patrick star exactly. And of course if he has any intention of playing in the nhl he will start lifting to gain some more mass. Look at johnny geaudreau and alex debrincat, they are both small but have a LOT of muscle.

It somehow makes me think of Lino Martschini. He's an excellent Swiss hockey player, he skates and handles the puck really well but he's only 168 cm tall and 65 kg... He'll never be drafted because of that but he still does pretty well in the Swiss league (NLA).

johnny weighs 155 and uses a 55 flex stick. saying he has a lot of muscle is not true

soppa what?

Dennis Makarov I have played 7 games in junior B

soppa ok, what does this have to do with me?

Dennis Makarov Ohh right, sorry about that

soppa lol ok

Kids a wizard which you luck bro

I wouldn't say jealous

I would.

Shred Gum i wouldn't say jealous, he is a good player; not a prodigy. He may be amazing in Japan, but i doubt he's even close to the best 7 year old in North America, let alone the World.

There's nothing jealous about it. Sorry you're too thick skulled to see that

JackC TV people are just jealous of his skill

cause hes asian

Billy Hi jealousy

Because he is a myth remember that myth of the Mets pitcher with a 165 fastball in the 80s he is like that we kept hearing how good he was but never saw him and then he was gone never actually herd the kids name come up in a convo unless hey have you seen that one kid

Billy Hi you right

The thing is that he is unreal!

He's real gucci

gucci mane

SUAMI

The Duppe Suami perkele xD

tots mu goats

he will lifting the level of japaness hockey

That kid is 100%better than me and I have been playing for 10 years

Dave

I’ve been playing for a week

JANZ yeah I’ve been playing for 10 he’s crazy

I’ve Been playing for 12 and he would destroy me

Kicky Bee people who think he’s trash are just jealous that someone younger than them is better

If this kid is a “prodigy” then every Canadian kid who plays hockey as a school subject is something else.

He is a good player but we will have to see how he progresses. Some kids are SUPER STARS at a young age but its mostly because they developed there skills fairly quickly and earlier than most kids ther age. When he gets older the skill gap definately gets closer and thats when you can see if he can be a Star player or not. Bottom Line judging young kids before they play at least say High School hockey its very hard to judge what kind of player they can be.

@@jones5392 but he's Japanese, and this sport is hella rare in Japan.

anonyymi kana they’re actually developing their league but idk I’ve only watched nhl hockey whenever I can but I usually watch Japanese baseball hockey soccer and basketball on RU-vid

PJ Is The Stig I'm 13 and same but I just started out can't wait to see how hockey goes for me

I used to play from about age 5 to age 12 but I'm going to play at age 16 again I just found that old passion for hockey again and I gauruntee you'll love it, just don't get frustrated with not scoring I only scored 2 goals in my whole hockey career, I just had fun and that's all that matters, I lead my state in assists though so I wasn't complete shit lol

+PJ Is The Stig I respect people like you, who do not lie to themselves. Having this character trait almost always yields success in the long term. Good on you bud, but don't think cause this kid is better than you, that means you can't be very good one day yourself.

bubble TV u will never get better with bad opponents

PJ Is The Stig, That's a great comment dude keep it up with your kindness cause this kid is the best I've seen and I'm a year older and can't do half these moves. Like people stop being rude if you don't have something nice to say don't say it!

**WHY ARE WE TALKING IN BOLD** Also, I've played with kids who have similar skill around age 11. What about 16 when everyone starts to catch up?

lobomuerto11 This is gonna be fun Yeah there are very few similarly skilled players his age...and most of them go on to play hockey professionally. no. My point was he has obvious skill but what about when other kids start to grow physically and mature. I know he will too but he is more advanced right now compared to kids his age because we don't hear of other kids with his talent in Canada because he would be in the very good tier. I live in northern NY and seeing 11 year olds do stuff like this is relatively normal. He's Japanese. This makes him different. What's your point? Wait until kids are growing and see if he can play when the speed of the game starts to increase. Could he also keep up physically? Even watching those brick invitational tournaments of current nhl superstars when they were his age, they aren't close to this kid's skill Yes, they are. Let's put him in with the best of Canada's teams in that tourney. Oh wait, he's 11 and that tourney is for 8-10 year olds. Most of those kids in the brick tournies do it in game situations which is a hell of a lot different than doing it against someone not playing defense. Watch this Toews gif gfycat.com/TangibleFairAss He was also 9 1/2... the poke check, the beating the kid to the outside with speed, the cutback, fighting off 2 defenders, staying with the puck and scoring? I see a lot more talent there than competing against some cones. so I guess all we can do it sit and wait. You're right. We haven't seen actual game competition against people of similar skill yet when it starts to matter which is 14+

*I just hope he grows tall enough and model his game like Gaudreau. If not, at the very least, be like Gerbe.*

All the best players are small skilled forwards. Same in football(soccer) all best players are small skilled forwards. They are the best because they replace their lack physicality with skill and skill always beats strenght.

have you seen zlatan

Doubt you'll see this, but we are working on this problem. Kids need hockey.

Phoenix Panda .yeah like me but some how I'm really good well at least I think so

Phoenix Panda like me

Agree Adam you can't hit what you can't catch

Adam Smith lol AAA players are just as fast as this kid

Seamus Belisle ya but he has really silcky mitts, he would stand out

His teammate from Japan, Ikki Kogawa is now playing in the GTHL for North York Rangers Bantam AAA. He's leading the league in scoring! Aito participated in the Pat Quinn Classic in Vancouver last year in the AAA Elite division. He led the tourney in scoring with 15 goals, 23 pts in 6 games. Cheers!

Noah kane it actually matters unless you got the speed and skating you'll get trucked

Noah kane but this kid got the hands he can cross up anyone

He's got speed and hands. I feel like he'll be a version of St.Louis

_A P_ its not called cross up in hockey lol

_A P_ i dont think you really know what youre talking about lol theyre are a ton of nhl players that are small look at patrick kane

Cameron Brawn this kid is amazing people need to,stop hating on him he has the skill to go,places

Or Brad Marchand

Or Brian Gionta

I'll raise your Yamamoto with a Mathew Barzal. Barzal has handles for days. Kailer is more of a goal scorer while Barzal is more of a facilitator. Barzal likes to have control of the puck while Kailer likes to be stealthy and seek out the puck in front of the net.

I agree, I don't like the flames but you can't Deny a good player

People will knock the ACHA but I played in it as well and seen alot of guys who one would think should be playing at a higher level.

Tyler Potts wow dude you're sick as shit

Tyler Potts you're the definition of a has been

No I am pretty realistic man, I have played some good hockey and I am just weighing on how talented this kid is. I am not hating on him far from it, he obviously has pro talent whether or not he understands competition and positioning stuff I could not tell from the video but I think he will at least make it to major junior or NCAA D1. I dont know why you are hating I'm just giving my story man.

Yes exactly this is my point there are tons of amazing players who do not make it to the high level from a skill aspect for whatever reason so it comes down to getting a break and being consistent as far as competing playing defense etc.

Same. Especially since Japan isn't good

Stammer91#beast dude ur right the Lightning could use him I luv ur name

Stammer91#beast Ya got Kucherov and Johnson already

No, he will be the Japanese Kopitar

if he makes it, like he is eleven saying he will play for team Canada is a bit much

andy person How is it a bit much? there have been losers like Anthony Camara, Bruins goon prospect who have played for Canada internationally before.

He is thirteen, there are plenty of kids with huge skill but they don't all end up playing for team Canada, besides he isn't even Canadian yet

andy person With the way Hockey Canada is run? especially at the junior level? tons of kids with low end skill make Canada's world junior teams every single year while higher end flashier players are left at home.

yeah its mostly positive. just a couple trolls and a washed up junior player.

Knowing this kid, he'd use it as fuel to prove the haters wrong...

Viet do u go to Roxbury

Viet Vu sub to me

Expert Gaming. Stop advertising your channel, Unless you consider yourself to making good content.

Hey buddy - thanks. I always make a point of telling my students that if they want to be great hockey players, they have to be great people. Aito definitely embodies that, and I feel inspired whenever I see the level of focus and hard work he puts in. I don't care if you love hockey or not - this kind of stuff should inspire everyone.

you are so right

That’s 💯true

Right oh cherio

That’s correct

Connor Stefan

Simeon Gavalov Well, every 12 year old probably thinks they're the best hockey player in the world.

im 12 and I think this comment is rude

VMMMCXV he didn't say it a bad thing to be twelve it's just like who cares about your age

USA HOCKEY exactly look how small Ardvi is and Fiala and even Salomaki are and they’re good players

Zach Morehouse There's a huge gap between those players and Aito.

Don't know about the NHL but I agree he has skill he could make it far

An Canadian AAA team at his age has way more skill then him, I’ve experienced it

um, Not true. this kid is practicing at a higher intensity. also hes practicing along side UBC players.

Liam DeGroft bro, there's kids in Saskatchewan who are the best on their AA, AAA team who don't have anything near to what he can do, he undresses the goalies and his an amazing puck handler

not sure he can do it , i have many friend in my team that tried to get to pro and is really hard.

A 5 foot 3 "beast"

Or Martin St. Louis/ Theo Fleury

Henri Richard, Yvan Cournoyer, Ted Lindsay, Marcel Dionne...

Chara

Chinese

Patrick Kane. Daniel Briere.

goodhitsofthesummer you are absolutely right. Disgusting how we break kids down instead of encourage them to live their dreams everyday. I hope with everything in me I see Aito in the NHL in a few years. New age Paul Kariya maybe? Lmao either way I'll buy his jersey ASAP! Let's go Iguchi-san!

How do you know that they are adults? It could be kids aswell

goodhitsofthesummer

I totally agree

LONG LIVE IGUCHI-SAN!!!!!!

Yea me neither, he is a big fan of Pavel Datsyuk and I think that's where the name came from

he's from Vancouver so I think it might also be from Pavel Bure

jigsaw99 no, it's datsuyk

He's from Toronto

he is from bc

he'd get on a better team than the leafs lmao

Videos And Stuff lmao the leafs will be good by the time this kid makes the league

No because the leafs will still have the first pick lol

LegendaryTrev most likely a team like the kings, hawks or penguins get him looking into the future

The real deal

Because he a real one

NordenTV he's from Japan tho

PERKELE!

muna pilluun ah ah