The three most feared words in hockey... "want to go?" This may not be true today; I could be dating myself. "Want to go?" was part of hockey's cultural language and very few players wanted to hear or have to respond to those words. "Want to go?" was challenge-language back in the days when the NHL was full of amazing players and endless intimidation. The Philadelphia Flyers won Stanley Cups with two things: a couple of forward lines with lots of talent and then two lines of tough players...

"The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little that we can do to change… Until we notice how failing to notice, shapes our thoughts and deeds." W.R.D. Laing. What do you and I notice? How do we increase our awareness so that we at least have a chance, and make a choice, to be intentional? A 2006 study of 251 executives in six countries concluded that while intelligence is important for career...

Nathan MacKinnon missed an empty net scoring opportunity playing for Team Canada in the 2026 Olympic Olympic Gold Medal Game. Playing in a gold medal game may not be your everyday experience. It has some increased intensity for sure, but here's the point: we all miss empty nets... and then we all ruminate on the opportunity we missed. MacKinnon is one of the greatest goal scorers in NHL history; 9 out of 10 times, in this situation, he buries the puck. But the tendency of our minds is to...