Archive for category Personal Essays
Legitimate Excuse for Failure: #3
Posted by Editor in Off the Ice, On the Ice, Personal Essays on March 2011
Excuse # 3 – The scouts never saw me and I was overlooked.
THERE ARE MANY EXAMPLES of NHL players who made it in spite of being overlooked in the NHL and in some cases the Major Junior Draft. Clearly scouting is not an exact science and many athletes are overlooked. But this is not an [...]
Legitimate Excuse for Failure: #2
Posted by Editor in Off the Ice, On the Ice, Personal Essays on March 2011
Legitimate reasons for failure, part ii of iii by former NHL goaltender Steve McKichen.
Legitimate Excuse for Failure: #1
Posted by Editor in Off the Ice, On the Ice, Personal Essays on March 2011
To have the ultimate result of making the NHL you must systematically and with vigor identify all potential issues that could derail your career. Once each area is identified and addressed you are left with only one valid excuse for failure. You weren’t good enough.”
Hockey Grandparents
Posted by Editor in Personal Essays on February 2010
contributed by Phyllis Jardine (Nova Scotia)
IT’S EARLY SATURDAY MORNING. The local arena is coming to life with the clanging of heating pipes and echoes of pucks smacking against the boards. I move out of the way as sleepy ten-year-olds parade by mumbling greetings of “hello” as they shuffle by–shirts untucked, jackets open, neckties askew–towards their [...]
The Coach: Honouring Coach Frank Danby
Posted by Editor in Personal Essays on January 2010
The name Frank Danby has been penciled in along side thousands of other unsung heroes; women and men who have influenced the lives of millions of young people; leaving a lasting legacy and a treasury of cherished memories with those they touched.
Thems the Breaks: A Don Cherry Memory
Posted by Editor in Personal Essays on October 2008
One year, Don’s session conflicted with the personal appearance of another well-known Canadian hockey guy, Walter Gretzky, who was holding an autograph session of his own, upstairs at Coles Book Store to promote his book On Family, Hockey and Healing.