Andrew Schlie

[Adam Gretz @AGretz]

How the Stanley Cup Final teams were built.

Only two players selected by either team in the first round. Only one top-5 pick (Svechnikov at No. 2... and oddly enough, Carolina only had the 11th-worst record that year. Big lottery luck).

[A Midwestern Doctor @MidwesternDoc]

Did you know physician owned hospitals had better patient outcomes, so hospital lobbyists made the Democrats ban their competitors to support the Affordable Healthcare Act?

[Bitcoin Teddy @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Prepare for the most jaw-dropping 4 minutes and 21 seconds you will watch this year.

Nicole Shanahan — ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, former running mate of RFK Jr., and a woman who personally signed nine-figure philanthropy checks — went full whistleblower on the entire Silicon Valley “tech wife mafia” and how they were used.

Her exact words:
“I don’t think many of the tech mafia wives realize… they were used to set the groundwork for what Klaus Schwab calls The Great Reset. Their money especially was being conscripted through a network of NGO advisors, Hollywood, Davos, and their own companies. A really small group of people… completely blind to how their groundwork is being used to enable these Great Reset policies.”

Then she turns the knife inward:
“These women find their meaning through philanthropic work. I really believed I was helping Black communities and indigenous communities rise up. But now the problems have gotten worse. Crime worse. Mental health worse. The whole model is broken. At the end of the day they always go: ‘But climate change.’ Social justice + climate change — it gets progressive women 100% of the time.”

She even says many now believe the biggest “climate change issues” are actually geoengineering issues.

This isn’t some random podcast bro.

This is a woman who lived in the mansions, sat on the boards, flew private to Davos parties… and is now saying:
“We were the useful idiots.”

[CLANKO MEDIA @ClankoMedia]

The Day Of Reckoning is coming for so many bad actors in hockey. We encourage all of our followers to share this, or to contact Kenny w/ your story.

The biggest cleanser is always sunlight. The days of hockey entities taking advantage of you can end.

STAND UP AND STOP IT

[Andrew Schlie @aschlie]

Can we stop with ESPN saying the "VGK".
It's giving "fetch".
#espn #nhl #Stanleycup

[Andrew Schlie @aschlie]

Decades of coaching.
Successful teams by any measure.
Parents who want to change the outcomes.
This is the cycle of high school hockey coaching and high school hockey parents.

More here: https://t.co/lwjxCFdoVB

#hockey #highschoolhockey #hockeyparents #hockeyboard

[The Winning Difference @thewinningdiff1]

Being a good coach means telling players what they need to hear, not just what they want to hear.
Being coachable means receiving correction without mistaking it for criticism.

[Allan Walsh🏒 @walsha]

Straight up monopolistic, anti-competitive behavior, flouting of antitrust laws. Not only that, this is just wrong.

[CRASH CONDITIONING @CrashCondHockey]

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[Matthew Auchincloss @matthew_auch]

Fantastic reporting on how youth hockey is increasingly becoming a nightmare because of corporate greed. Ruining the players, the leagues and the communities that built these teams.

[Kenny Jacoby @kennyjacoby]

In the last decade, a private investment firm has consolidated much of youth hockey, turning what was once a community-based activity into a profit machine for wealthy investors.

I spent nine months investigating Black Bear Sports Group. Here's our story:
https://t.co/dMs4pylHE8

[USA TODAY @USATODAY]

Murry Gunty, the founder and CEO of Blackstreet Capital Holdings, used his private investment firm to buy the teams on his son’s path to NCAA Division I college hockey.

Then, he made the pathway more expensive for almost everyone else. https://t.co/HKJmzYxCxm

[Andrew Schlie @aschlie]

Well sourced and written article.
Make of it what you will.
I have experienced the takeover, the rate increases, the facility changes, the anger from their team directed at me personally. It has not been positive for me.
https://t.co/nnbcLjC1wo

[Toronto Bag Head @torontobaghead]

How stupid do all those franchises feel now, having not picked up the Old Master himself, Joel Quenneville, when they had the chance?

That right there is a Top 10 coach of all time, and you’re now understanding why. The Ducks weren’t even supposed to be in the playoffs.

[Chad Helle @HelleChad]

Hearing all these HS coaches getting forced out by parents makes me wonder how long before HS sports are intramural’s? Everyone will just play travel sports.

[Brian McCormick @brianmccormick]

This may be the best (most important 🤷‍♂️) paragraph I have written in 25 years.

[Danny Kanell @dannykanell]

The coaches and parents who allow this to go on are the problem. Instead of teaching kids how to play the game the right way and show respect for the opponent they’re worried about getting viral attention. Embarrassing.

[Illinois Policy @illinoispolicy]

In 1953, Illinois politicians famously promised that roads would be "Toll-Free in '73." But since then, Illinois drivers have paid nearly $27 billion in tolls.

Now, state leaders are pushing for the largest passenger toll hike in Illinois history.

Here is what you need to know about the proposed $1 billion toll tax hike:

>Passenger tolls could jump by 45 cents, raising the average cost to $1.24.

>Commercial truck tolls could increase by 30%.

>Starting in 2029, tolls would automatically hike with inflation every two years.

>The tollway has collected nearly $20.7 billion more than it needed for maintenance since 1973.

>Over $3.3 billion currently remains unused in the state's Road Fund.

The tollway authority took in a record $1.44 billion in 2024.

So why the hike?

Because it was a political reward to labor unions for supporting a Chicago-area transit bailout.

https://t.co/hgPxToFqmR

[The Winning Difference @thewinningdiff1]

“We can only say so many things as coaches. Great teams, they are eventually led from within,” David
Carle

Winning doesn’t take one.
It takes everyone.
Collective responsibility is the standard of leadership.