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Every level told Rich Peverley where his ceiling was. Good college player. ECHL guy. American League player. He kept proving it wrong.Rich went undrafted, from St. Lawrence to the ECHL in South Carolina and Reading, then to Milwaukee, Nashville, Atlanta, and a Stanley Cup with the Boston Bruins in …

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At 17, Grant Yingst is playing forward for the Oshawa Generals in the OHL, and he got there by learning to reset one shift at a time.Grant grew up in Pittsburgh in a close hockey family and chose Shady Side Academy to stay near home and keep school first. He talks about the hard work that turned an…
At seventeen, Cassidy Preston made the OHL, then got scratched 48 times and finished his NHL draft year with zero points. Back home in North Bay, someone told him they would have scored at least one. He went home and cried, and then he had to decide whether to quit.Cassidy, the founder and CEO of C…
If your confidence rises and falls with ice time, stats or what your coach said after the game, you've handed someone else the keys. In this episode, Luc and Sara look back at the lessons from Gina Kingsbury, Brad McKenzie and Doug Christensen. They talk about why you can't be great at everything, …
Doug Christiansen didn't know healthy scratches existed. He found out he was one.Doug is the commissioner of ECAC Hockey, an NCAA Division I conference. He grew up outside Milwaukee, played four years at Union, spent time in the minors, and has put in fifteen-plus years between coaching and hockey …
Three or four coaches he trusted told him not to do it. All but one said moving down to Junior A was a road you don't come back from.Brad McKenzie is the head coach of the Halifax Mooseheads in the QMJHL. He was an instructor at 13, co-wrote a book on the psychology of hockey at 18, went to Finland…
Two Olympic golds. Six world championships. General manager of the Toronto Sceptres, and eight years running Canada's national women's program.Gina Kingsbury has been the player fighting for a roster spot and the person deciding who gets one, and in this episode she talks honestly about both. Getti…
Nico Somerville was named a team captain in his third year of college. It turned out to be the year he got scratched the most. Nico is going into his third season of being pro hockey player in the ECHL. This season he will be playing with Greenville after spending the past two in Wichita, and prior…
Janine "Tiger" Charron looked like the most positive person in any room. Behind closed doors, there were mornings she physically couldn't get out of bed. A former NCAA Division I hockey player at UNH and assistant captain, Janine went on to play pro, run marathons, and win a fitness compe…
Charley Healey committed to play college hockey in Ottawa, then her mom was diagnosed with stage four cancer. A physical in her first year turned up Wolff-Parkinson-White, a rare heart condition sending her rate to 275 on the ice. She thought that was just working hard. Then came pneumonia, thirty …
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