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[TJ Manastersky @tjmanastersky]

Almost lift off!

Tomorrow morning at Brock University: @brockmenshockey High Performance Coaching Seminar.

Calm before the storm.

[Brock Men's Hockey @BrockMensHockey]

The speakers the High Performance Hockey Seminar are the best of the best - these are some of the organizations and leagues that are represented by our keynote speakers and discussion leaders!

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[Brock Men's Hockey @BrockMensHockey]

See what’s in store for May 30 during an amazing day of networking & connecting with coaches!

Limited spaces still available - register now⬇️
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[Brock Men's Hockey @BrockMensHockey]

Have you signed up for the High Performance Hockey Seminar yet? Check out some of the highlights from previous years and see how you can learn to be a better coach!

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[Brock Men's Hockey @BrockMensHockey]

The High Performance Hockey Seminar is 3 weeks away! Sign up now for a day full of learning, connecting, and networking with some amazing hockey professionals to develop your coaching career!

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[Brock Men's Hockey @BrockMensHockey]

📣“Accessible, applicable, and highly relevant” - don’t miss out on your chance to learn from some amazing professionals in hockey to better your coaching skills! Sign up for the High Performance Hockey Seminar today⬇️

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[Brock Men's Hockey @BrockMensHockey]

The High Performance Hockey Seminar includes a portion of small groups to help you learn in a more personal way with other coaches at YOUR level & we have some amazing, highly qualified coaches to lead these discussions!

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[Brock Men's Hockey @BrockMensHockey]

Introducing our full list of keynote speakers for the High Performance Hockey Seminar on May 30! Don’t miss out on this chance to meet and learn from these great coaches - register today at the link below⬇️

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[Brock Men's Hockey @BrockMensHockey]

Travelling to come to the High Performance Hockey Seminar? We have an exclusive discount & room block available for the Sheraton 4 Seasons Hotel, close to Brock University!

Secure your spot using the link below⬇️
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[Brock Men's Hockey @BrockMensHockey]

Curtis Rukavina @cruk54 is the Director of Scouting for the @BuffaloBills, and our next keynote speaker for the High Performance Hockey Seminar on May 30!

Event details & tickets⬇️
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[Brock Men's Hockey @BrockMensHockey]

Cody Royle @codyroyle is the Coach of Head Coaches and an author, and will be speaking at the High Performance Hockey Seminar on May 30 about the craft of coaching. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from the best!

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[Brock Men's Hockey @BrockMensHockey]

Introducing our next keynote speaker for the 2026 High Performance Hockey Seminar: @JDUlms, assistant coach of @SanJoseSharks ‼️

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[Brock Men's Hockey @BrockMensHockey]

Our next keynote speaker for the 2026 High Performance Hockey Seminar is @FritschA7, skills coach of @penguins!

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[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

BEST YOGI BERRA QUOTES:

1. “It ain’t over till it’s over.”
2. “It’s deja vu all over again.”
3. “I usually take a two-hour nap from 1 to 4.”
4. “Never answer an anonymous letter.”
5. “We made too many wrong mistakes.”
6. “You can observe a lot by watching.”
7. “The future ain’t what it used to be.”
8. “If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.”
9. “It gets late early out here.”
10. “If the people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, nobody’s going to stop them.”
11. “Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.”
12. “Pair up in threes.”
13. “Why buy good luggage, you only use it when you travel.”
14. “Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.”
15. “All pitchers are liars or crybabies.”
16. “A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.”
17. “Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.”
18. “He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious.”
19. “I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.”
20. “I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won 25 games. What I don’t understand is how he lost five.”
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Joe DiMaggio and Yogi Berra in 1955.
21. “I don’t know (if they were men or women fans running naked across the field). They had bags over their heads.”
22. “I’m a lucky guy and I’m happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.”
23. “I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.”
24. “In baseball, you don’t know nothing.”
25. “I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?”
26. “I never said most of the things I said.”
27. “It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility.”
28. “I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.”
29. “I wish everybody had the drive he (Joe DiMaggio) had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I’d never seen him dive for a ball, everything was a chest-high catch, and he never walked off the field.”
30. “So I’m ugly. I never saw anyone hit with his face.”
31. “Take it with a grin of salt.”
32. (On the 1973 Mets) “We were overwhelming underdogs.”
33. “The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.”
34. “You should always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise, they won’t come to yours.”
35. “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”

(Sources: Los Angeles Times, Baseball Almanac, Baseball Digest, Catcher in the Wry (Bob Uecker), Sports Illustrated)

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

🇮🇹 The speech that all of Italy heard. And that the world must hear.
In a country that will host the Olympic Games, Italian Senator and Vice President of the Human Rights Commission Filippo Sensi took the floor and said what should have been said out loud long ago.
He called it a disgrace that the International Olympic Committee disqualified Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych.
Not for doping.
Not for violating fair play.
But for… memory.
For a helmet bearing the faces of Ukrainian athletes — his friends, colleagues, champions — killed by Russia.
The IOC stated that the helmet “did not comply with regulations.”
And then Sensi asked a question that brought silence to the chamber:
Does aggressive war comply with regulations?
Is there a separate technical protocol for it?
The correct angle of a missile strike?
The permissible size of a crater?
An athlete prepares for the Olympics for years.
A Ukrainian athlete trains between air raid sirens, in shelters, under news of the dead.
He overcomes fear, exhaustion, and loss.
And he steps to the start line not only for a medal — but for the right to exist.
And he is suspended… for remembering.
Because memory is the most dangerous substance. It is hard to add to a prohibited list. But apparently, someone would very much like to.
The senator named names. Just a few among more than 650 Ukrainian athletes killed by Russia:
▪️ Yevhenii Malyshev, 19, biathlete — killed in Kharkiv.
▪️ Mariia Lebid, 15 — missile strike in Dnipro.
▪️ Dmytro Sharpar, 25, figure skater — killed in Bakhmut.
▪️ Volodymyr Androsiuk, 22, track and field athlete — also Bakhmut.
▪️ Daria Kurdel, 20 — missile strike in Kharkiv.
▪️ Alina Perehutova, 14 — standing in line for water with her mother in Mariupol.
▪️ Maksym Halinichev, 22, boxer — killed defending Luhansk region.
▪️ Viktoriia Ivashko, 9, judoka — missile strike in Kyiv.
▪️ Kateryna Diachenko, 11, gymnast — airstrike on Mariupol.
▪️ Karina Bakur, 17, world kickboxing champion — shielded her father with her body.
These were the faces Heraskevych wanted to carry with him to the start line.
So that they would “compete” alongside him.
So that their dream would not die with them.
And for that, he was punished.
Because it turns out that the faces of murdered athletes violate regulations.
But their absence on the track does not.
In his speech, Sensi said the most important thing:
The Olympic Committee did not lose an athlete.
It lost its most valuable medal — its conscience.
Sport without memory is just a show.
Sport without humanity is just decoration.
Sport that fears truth is not about peace.
The Olympic movement was born from the ideals of honor, dignity, and unity.
Yet today Ukrainian athletes must prove not only their strength — but their right to remember their fallen.
And if memory becomes a violation of regulations — then the problem is not the helmet.
The world must hear this.
Because silence is also a position.
And indifference is also a choice.
Memory cannot be disqualified.
And conscience cannot be added to a prohibited list.
🇺🇦 We remember every one of them.
And we will not allow their names to be erased.

[Topher Scott @HockeyThinkTank]

Thoughts on Team Canada at World Juniors:

There's been a lot of discourse today about Canada's performance after bowing out to Czechia again. I've read a lot about roster construction, team toughness, how players were used during the tournament, and other things related to the team's inability to get the job done.

These things may have been an issue, but reality is the problem runs way deeper.

Here is the biggest thing that people aren't talking about:

Canada has WAY fewer youth boys playing hockey than it did a decade ago.

Looking at Hockey Canada registration and membership data, it's mind-boggling to see the numbers.

And the numbers in the biggest provinces (Ontario and Quebec) are especially egregious.

So why is this happening? Hockey is Canada's sport. It shouldn't be like this.

It's what we hear every day from families all over North America:

Costs are too high. It's professionalized at too young of an age. The stress of the youth hockey experience is too much for kids and families.

Community programs have been replaced by for-profit entities leading to higher costs and more pressure. Development has been replaced by super teams and rogue/outlaw leagues outside of Hockey Canada even before kids are 8 years old. At the older ages, hockey academies have become what families believe is the only way their kids will make it - shelling out INSANE amounts of money to send their kids to do so.

Ontario just got rid of residency rules which will only lead to less accountability and more club-hopping than there already was in the nation's craziest and biggest youth hockey market.

The reason why Canada was the hockey superpower for so long is because it was part of the fabric of the country. There was such a pride and passion for the game and what the game meant to the flag. There was such a sense of playing the game for something bigger than yourself.

Now rather than playing for the love of the game, hockey in Canada is like a job for many of these kids in the environment they're being put in. It's less about pride and passion and more about the path to making it. When in all honesty, it's the pride and passion for the game that is the biggest consistency in the kids that do end up making it.

If Canada wants to restore its hockey dominance, it better take a long look in the mirror at the grassroots and what is going on in youth hockey. If you have tens of thousands of fewer boys playing the game, you should probably look at that first. The bigger your pool of athletes, the more elite athletes you can develop.

"As many as possible, for as long as possible, in the best environment possible". That has to be the guiding principle.

There's a lot of great people in Canada doing incredible things for the game, but the system itself is fundamentally broken. If Hockey Canada is serious about getting back to the top, it has to start at the bottom.

[Curry College Men's Hockey @Curry_MHockey]

Teddy Bear Toss 🧸

Join us Saturday at 7:00 at the Canton Ice House as we host No. 7 UNE in another top 10 matchup and hold our annual Teddy Bear Toss. Bring a new stuffed animal and throw it onto the ice after our first goal to support local families.

#Gocolonels

[Neutral Zone Women's @neutralzoneW]

Year End Rankings 2027s: Top 250

Read now:
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[Brock Men's Hockey @BrockMensHockey]

Former Badgers hockey Asst Coach, Nate Mitton won the Stanley Cup and brought it home to St. Catharines at The House of Greatness training center!

[Brock Men's Hockey @BrockMensHockey]

Last call to sign up for our Summer Skills Clinic‼️ We are offering TWO camps - one advanced camp for U10 and U12 players & a skills clinic for U8 players. Don’t miss out on this fun and immersive experience! Get more info and sign up now⬇️
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