Monthly Archive for: ‘March, 2011’

It’s not Like it Used to be.

Al Hamilton discusses some differences in the game that he has seen since he played in the NHL in the article “Bigger, Faster, Stronger, and Heavier” http://www.faceoff.com/story.html?id=2ec313c2-095b-4562-90ad-9b4865a1af7f&p=1 “For Hamilton, staggering NHL salaries are motivating today’s players to train harder and longer. He said his starting salary when he turned pro back in the 1960s was $13,000, which hockey players can [...]

Create a Plan

It was the last season I was going to play. I had already quit and was ready to go full steam into music but was convinced to play one more year by a persistent coach. The season was going great, we were winning every game with high scoring for and low against. We were set to win it all. Then [...]

Setting Goals

Every sport there are built in goals. Everyone wants to win, be the top of the league, become a champion. To get there is another thing – an athlete has to break everything down into steps to reach the goal. Practise is involved, strategy, watching game tapes, sizing up the opponent, knowing about pacing so in the last stretch there’s [...]

For the Love of the Game

Getting into hockey seemed to be just a natural progression – however it wasn’t until the Edmonton Oilers started I became interested. See I was raised by a single parent – my mom and there was little father influence early on so hockey wasn’t even on the radar until Edmonton had an NHL team and was on TV 3 nights [...]

What does hockey have to do with music?

Growing up in Canada, every kid gets to know about the game of hockey. It is something we are passionate about and are practically bred into believing that it’s the best thing on the planet (for those of you in the U.S. think football/baseball, those in Europe think football/soccer…. you get the idea). Playing the game means lots [...]