Frozen Four Coach on Talent, Patience & Development

By Mike Doyle, Special to Minnesota Hockey, 04/27/21 Like any fish tale, most good stories grow in myth every year. And after scoring the game-winning goal against Boston College to send St. Cloud State University to this year’s Frozen Four in Pittsburgh, SCSU senior Will Hammer’s hockey legend grew a bit more. The story goes that after playing three…

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HOW TO CREATE AN ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE FOR ATHLETES AND COACHES

By Enio Sacilotto My life mentor Jon Lee Kootnekoff told me many years ago, “An attitude of gratitude is altitude”!  It took me several years to figure out precisely what this means.  The Harvard Medical School definition of gratefulness, “With gratitude, people acknowledge the goodness in their lives … As a result, gratitude also helps…

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