Mike Field

Hockey Coach

[Western Hockey League @TheWHL]

A FAMILY AFFAIR!🫂

Raegan Subban covers the impact Aiden, Zoran and Jackson Rajcic have had on the @WHLsilvertips program over the years. We're not crying, you are!🥹

#MemorialCup

[Western Hockey League @TheWHL]

Legacy cemented.

For the first time in franchise history, the @WHLsilvertips are WHL Champions! #WHLChampionship

[xyz - Everett Silvertips @WHLsilvertips]

Defense wins championships. #WantTheFight

[xyz - Everett Silvertips @WHLsilvertips]

OFFICIALLY YOUR WESTERN HOCKEY LEAGUE CHAMPIONS 😤🏆
#WantTheFight | #WHLPlayoffs | #FeedingTheFuture

[Cameron Riggers @CameronRiggers]

For the first time in franchise history, the Everett Silvertips are WHL Champions!!

[Mike Benton @Benton_Mike]

After 23 years- it’s happened. Congrats to the @WHLSilvertips, champions of @TheWHL.

Zoran Rajcic, GM Mike Fraser waited long enough. #SeaKraken prospect Julius Miettinen gets a ring. A passionate fan base gets their due. The hockey tide rises in the PNW.

[xyz - Everett Silvertips @WHLsilvertips]

LET'S GO, COACH!

Steve Hamilton is the Dunc McCallum Memorial Trophy winner for @TheWHL Coach of the Year!

#WantTheFight #WHLAwards

[Western Hockey League @TheWHL]

A well-deserved trophy presentation for the Western Conference Champions 👏🏆

@WHLsilvertips | #FeedingtheFuture | #WHLPlayoffs

[Casey Bryant @CaseyBryant51]

During Game 3, my opinion on Jaxsin Vaughan’s suspension and the unfortunate consequences of what I felt was a common hockey play was cut off by commercial on Victory+, so here it is in full from KRKO.

tl;dr the conversation around Vaughan as a player in general should change.

[Buffalo Sabres @BuffaloSabres]

One to remember! 🚨

#LetsGoBuffalo

[2 Goalies 1 Mic @2Goalies1Mic]

Josh Doan is a DAAAAWG

[Detroit Red Wings @DetroitRedWings]

WELCOME TO HOCKEYTOWN, CARTER BEAR!

[Eric Lang @ericlang9]

Nine years and seven championships later, we’ve achieved what many thought impossible in college hockey. We fought hard until the very end.

To all the supporters of AIC hockey, we are incredibly grateful.

To my amazing wife and family, what a journey it has been. I wouldn’t have traded it for anything in the world. To our dedicated alumni, your belief in our program has been unwavering, supporting us from day one to that final puck drop.

To my incredible assistant coaches, your commitment helped to build this success. I am forever indebted to you; no one has ever accomplished so much with so little.

To my players, I love each and every one of you. I look forward to celebrating weddings, becoming a dad, and life’s journey alongside you.

Coach Wright, I hope we made you proud of the program.

To my alma mater, thank you for the opportunity and your faith in me. I will always be a Yellowjacket.

LFG 🐝😢

[xyz - Everett Silvertips @WHLsilvertips]

Welcome to the jungle, baby.

AOTW has been named the toughest road building in the WHL according to an anonymous survey of 328 players!

#ForEverett

[Evan Fox @evanfoxy]

“Doesn’t matter if you have one ass cheek and three toes, I WILL BEAT YOUR ASS”

🗣🗣🗣THAT’S MCDC FOOTBALL

[Western Hockey League @TheWHL]

NHL Central Scouting has elevated @WHLsilvertips forward Carter Bear from a ‘B’ rating to an ‘A’ rating on its Preliminary Players to Watch List for the 2025 #NHLDraft.

📝 | https://t.co/R3KaAb9SfI

[NCAA Ice Hockey @NCAAIceHockey]

UPSET COMPLETE!!!! @AIC_Hockey ELIMINATES (1) ST. CLOUD STATE IN ITS NCAA TOURNAMENT DEBUT!

#NCAAHockey

[Mike McMahon @MikeMcMahonCHN]

This is a punch in the gut for college hockey.

The AIC rags-to-riches story was among the best in college hockey over the last decade. The program was a perennial afterthought and became a top program in the AHA.

[Western Hockey League @TheWHL]

Trying to bump up that 🅱️ rating after a night like this

@WHLsilvertips | #WHLTopPerformer | #NHLDraft

[Topher Scott @HockeyThinkTank]

I just got off a call with an advisor's group of players. The message was on resilience and being where your feet are, especially during this time of year when roles are being doled out, commitments are being made, and the pecking order is shaping up on a roster.

And for all the kids out there, I'm gonna say this as bluntly as possible:

Do NOT be an excuse maker.

I have no time, and coaches at the higher levels have no time, for kids that make excuses. Kids who make excuses put all their focus on things they can't control and blame others for where they are - when in reality - they are much more in control of their playing time, role, and development than they think. Their play, their attitude, their work ethic...that determines the coach's trust in you. It's not the other way around. Too many kids feel like their coach's trust is the determiner of their play. Nope. The things YOU control are the determiners of your play.

One thing that came up was how CHL players are being thrown into the recruiting pool and how that was going to make it harder to play D1 hockey.

Well, you can use that as an excuse...or you can use that as motivation to say "You know what, I'm going to have to work that much harder then to accomplish the dream. It's gonna make me better"

I'm 5'4". I never used that as an excuse for any of my dreams that didn't turn into reality. Being 5'4" brought me CLOSER to my dreams because I didn't use it as an excuse and used it as motivation to know I HAD TO work that much harder than everyone just to be even.

And you know what...

I know kids that came from awful upbringings that achieved their dreams. Came from no money and achieved their dreams. Battled career threatening injuries that achieved their dreams. Battled mental or physical abuse and achieved their dreams.

Having a little bit extra competition in the talent pool ain't an excuse. Have some perspective.

What's more important...the things that happen to us or the way we choose to RESPOND to the things that happen to us??

If you're unhappy with the role you're playing right now? Go PROVE to the coach that it should be your role by asking him what you need to do to EARN it and then you better be the first person on the ice and the last person off every day.

If there's a player you think you are better than that's committed and you aren't? Stop comparing yourself to others and focus on the things that you can control like being the hardest working player and most positive teammate on your team.

Life's not fair. It's not fair for everyone in some capacity. Everyone has their problems, their challenges, their setbacks.

If you use those challenges as excuses to make yourself feel better because you really don't want to put in the work through the adversity...eventually you'll regret it. Because you took the easy way out.

But if you use those challenges as internal motivation and understand that yeah maybe this isn't the ideal situation but I'm gonna work my way out of it and come out stronger on the other side...you'll be a champion and give yourself a much greater opportunity to achieve your dream.

I've had it with people who make excuses. Life isn't fair. But in reality, that's the beauty of it. When it's not fair is when your character is revealed and it's really an opportunity in disguise to make yourself stronger and more unstoppable than you were before.