Category : An Advisers Life
An Advisers Life – Preparing For The 2020-2021 Season Now
Right about now, most players, coaches and parents are so focused on playoff positioning that they are forgetting that NOW is the time to plan...
An Advisers Life – Factors To Consider When Hiring An Adviser
Its at this time of year that parents and players often start “shopping” for adviser services. The start of a new year usually coincides with...
An Advisers Life – Dealing With Success Jealousy
Success has a different defined level for every individual person. For some its reaching the NHL, while others it is reaching NCAA hockey. Along the...
An Advisers Life – Playing Junior Or Pro In Europe
This past weekend was spent at the IIHF’s Continental Cup with three clients on opposing teams, playing in three different countries. While I didn’t intend...
An Advisers Life – When Its Time To Make Changes
Are you in the same position you were last year? Same position you were two or even three years ago? Is your status as a...
An Advisers life – Do You Really Want Success Or Are You All Talk?
Recently I have run into a string of potential clients who all talk about how badly they want to be successful and reach the next...
An Advisers Life – The Pay To Play Problem Is Not Simply An American Problem Its A North America Problem
Recently a friend of mine penned some interesting information concerning the state of play at the pay to play level in the United States. While...
An Advisers Life – Hockey “Sanctioning” What It Really Is and Is Not
I really enjoy a lot of the emails I get from readers asking questions that really should have common sense answers. Unfortunately though, those common...
An Advisers Life – Would You Be Happy With What You’ve Done In Hockey If It All Ended Today?
The End. Some day everyone learns that it is over. That playing at a highly competitive level is over. The comradery. The travel. The recruiting....
An Advisers Life – Critical Information For Prospects With Advisers
Often times, players and parents who have advisers who are “competitors” of ours, email to ask us questions. I have found this quite strange but...
An Advisers Life – Every Word Matters – Listen Closely When Choosing Your Adviser
As a former player, coach, general manager, team and league executive I have learned more than a few things along my career path in hockey....
An Advisers Life – Winners Focus On Winning Losers Focus On Winners
A lot of young athletes right now are wondering why they didn’t make the team at the next level. Why they don’t have an NCAA...
An Advisers Life – Those Who Say They Can And Those Who Say They Cant Are Both Usually Right
Those who say they cant and those who say they can are both usually right. Confucius said these words a few thousand years ago. Some...
An Advisers Life – Choose The Program That Fits Your Future Not Your Past
Change. Change is always difficult. Even when it is positive change there is always some difficulty adjusting to one thing or another. Chances make Champions....
An Advisers Life – Defining Development When Choosing A Team To Play On
Development. Every program talks about it. Only a few really deliver. The problem for you parents and players is distinguishing between real development and “hype”....
An Advisers Life – When It Is Time To Change Teams And The Direction Your Career Is Heading
When you continue to do what you have always done, yet you expect to have different results, is the very definition of insanity. When you...
An Advisers Life – Where To Play If Not The USHL or Tier II?
Every year, after all of the drafts are over, I get hundreds of phone calls and emails asking me the same question. “Where should I...
An Advisers Life – You Were Not Drafted, Now What?
The drafts are over. A few hundred players were taken in the USHL, NCDC and NAHL draft. That’s it. Just a few hundred in the...
An Advisers Life – You Aren’t Getting Drafted So What Is The Backup Plan?
Next Tuesday we will have the annual NAHL draft. The USHL and NCDC drafts have already concluded. These are the three drafts that all players...
An Advisers Life – The Value Of International Playing Experience
Playing hockey in Europe. Just how valuable is the experience in the eyes of scouts and NCAA programs? How valuable is it to the professional...