3/8ths of a Thought

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2 Feb 2024

Moving Away From Home Part 2

In the previous blog post, I began a discussion of a challenge that nearly all elite hockey players face but very few people in the industry talk about enough: moving

Rob Martini

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24 Jan 2024

Moving Away From Home Part 1

One of the topics with the widest discrepancy between the impact on a young player and the amount of dialogue it gets is the process of moving away from home.

Rob Martini

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11 Dec 2023

Major Junior or the NCAA? – The NCAA Case

In Part 1 of this series, we made the case for why some 15-to-17-year-old hockey players might benefit from heading down the path of playing Canadian major junior hockey. But

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30 Nov 2023

Major Junior or NCAA? Part 1: The Case for Major Junior

If you grow up playing hockey in North America, there are essentially two paths to the NHL once you reach the age of 16: the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)

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