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Hockey Opens Pathway to the East

Boston Junior Bruins Empire League coach Chris Masters is heading to China next week to run a clinic for the Beijing Cubs youth organization.

“It will be an interesting cultural experience, and an unbelievable opportunity,” said Masters. “Also, who knows what the hockey will be like. The game is really in its infancy there. Still, with 1.4 billion Chinese people, if enough kids start playing the game, you’re bound to come up with some good ones.”

The trip came about because of an 8-year-old Beijing native named Rudi Ying, who is believed to be the first child to ever come directly from China to play hockey in the U.S. (though the Beijing Cubs ’96 team competed in the Bell Cup in Toronto last winter).  Earlier this summer, Rudi joined the ‘98 Junior Bruins team on short notice after one of the regular players came down with mono. Ying flew from Beijing to Montreal on a Wednesday and was on the ice Friday morning, joining the Masters-coached squad that, by the way, included the children of Marty McInnis, Jeff Chychrun, and George McPhee.

Ying, who has been playing hockey since age five, is also a concert pianist who is fluent in English. With the ’98 Junior Bruins, despite the 14-hour flight and the new environs and teammates, he held his own. After that weekend, Rudi’s father, Ying Da, offered to bring Masters, who had coached Rudi in Montreal, to China to do on-ice work with players and coaches as well as some question-and-answer sessions with parents about hockey, schooling, college hockey, etc.

Rudi’s family has been prominent in China for over a hundred years. Claire Conceison,  an assistant professor of Drama at Tufts – and the cousin of Burlington High (Mass.) hockey coach Bob Conceison – knows the family well. She colloborated with Rudi’s grandfather, Ying Ruocheng, on the famous director and actor's autobiography. He appeared in Bernardo Bertolucci’s “The Last Emperor” and "Little Buddha."

Rudi’s father carried on the tradition and is a film and TV actor, director and producer. Rudi's mother, Liang Huan is a writer. The family has always bridged the gap between west and east, so Rudi’s experience as the first child to ever come to the U.S. to play hockey can be seen as a continuance of the family’s legacy of cultural interaction between East and West that that his great-great grandfather started a century ago and for which his grandfather, often referred to as “China’s Cultural Ambassador,” was particularly famous for.

Masters said that when his week of running the clinic is completed, he’s going to visit the site of the Beijing Summer ’08 Olympics, as well as Tiananmen Square, the Great Wall, and the Forbidden City. “I might go to Shanghai for a few days as well,” he added.

As for Rudi, who has also played for the Bobby Crawford-coached '98 Atlantic All Stars this summer, he -- along with his family -- will be moving to Chicago this fall, and will stay for at least a year. Rudi will be skating with the ’97 Chicago Mission, coached by Larry Pedrie.

And while he was in Marlboro with the ’98 Junior Bruins, Rudi visited both the Fay School and St. Mark’s.  So, yes, there’s a chance Rudi could be the first NCAA hockey player to come out of China.