Last weekend some team from the NHL’s eastern conference added some guy from a team in New York. The Islanders I believe? You may have heard about it. John Tavares has been a steady superstar on the island since he was drafted in 2009. He seemingly singlehandedly willed the Islanders back into the playoffs after […]
Brad Hamacher is a former Minnesota High School and NCAA Division I College hockey player who has coached in California for 15 years. These days, in addition to on and off-ice training, Brad operates a wholistic one-on-one player/family mentoring program. Brad’s working on a series of posts analyzing hockey’s current youth model, what we can […]
The NHL Entry Draft used to be pretty straight forward: find the best player available, draft him, and pound him into shape until he either makes or breaks your hockey team. Well, times have changed. Recruiting hockey players involves a lot more than watching games everywhere from The Soo to Finland to Arizona. While the […]
Featured Image credit: Chris Mast “As any athlete knows, momentum is the most unstoppable force in sports. The only way to stop it is if you get in your own way, start making stupid mistakes or stop believing in yourself.” – Rocco Mediate When a team has momentum, it means a team has things going […]
In a perfect world we would celebrate and genuinely enjoy the joys and accomplishments of others. Yet if we use others as a benchmark to evaluate ourselves, that creeping twinge of jealousy may undermine our ability to truly cherish the good things that come to others. Just remember: over time, things may even out, and a friend’s […]
Photo courtesy of Chris Mast/Everett Silvertips “Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life” Eckart Tolle – Author: Power of Now Hockey is played in the now. Once the game is over, it becomes part of the past. If it was filmed, it […]
“Try not to get lost in comparing yourself to others. Discover your gifts and let them shine!” – Jennie Finch In part 1 we looked at the 9 benefits of not comparing yourself to others. In this article we will look at 9 things that you can do to stop the temptation of comparing […]
How many of us spend time comparing ourselves to others? It almost seems that it is human nature to compare ourselves. No one is perfect, we all do it from time to time. The challenge we are faced when we do, do it, is that all our energy is focused in the wrong place. We […]
When you are in a creative state, you forget the habit of being yourself”- Joe Dispenza It happens to all goal scorers at some point during the season or their career; the prolonged scoring slump. The goals that came so effortlessly at one point now feel like a lifetime away. Five games turn to ten, […]
“Blake Wheeler played in the Allstar game last night in Tampa Bay. Most guys would have taken today off, but not him. He was the first one on the ice, and he absolutely drive practice. That’s what kind of person Blake Wheeler is.” That’s Winnipeg Jets coach Todd Woodcroft on their captain, the heart and […]
