M. Frank Hegel

Hockey dad, here for training tips, articles, networking. My opinions are my own, entertaining to me and do not reflect my employer.

[Mike McMullen 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @truthtrain101]

Here are headlines from the UK, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia.

Simultaneously, they all want a social media ban. "To protect the children".

Our governments aren't calling the shots; they're following orders.

This is just one example. Every law passed happens in the exact same way in all for 4 countries. This cannot be possible unless each leader of each country works for the exact same people.

Our leaders are not elected; they are installed.

#UK #NewZealand #Canada #Austrailia

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

This was one of the lowest points in human history.

[M. Frank Hegel @BackCzech4Check]

@david_parker Currently in America, the quality of life here is leaps ahead of Canada.

When I remarked this to an American his reply was “yeah…it’s America”

They are so prosperous it’s inconceivable that their way of life would be any less.

[M. Frank Hegel @BackCzech4Check]

@nenshi Even if your math was right,

That would pay for ONE day of education costs in this province.

[M. Frank Hegel @BackCzech4Check]

@dadinthecorner Depends on your family’s goals for youth sports.

If it’s capped at ‘have fun house league’ then be away from the rink so long your kid outgrows their skates.

[M. Frank Hegel @BackCzech4Check]

@YoungStreete Because theyve lost their prosperity incrementally.

Frog boiled, media consumed.

A lot of Canadians are not travelling (can’t) if they did they’d see how the rest of the world is living. And become enraged.

[M. Frank Hegel @BackCzech4Check]

@elonmusk

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@Georgel5t @b0newalljackson Yes. Once.

Then we learned how to play as visitors. One time we arrived to find urine all over our dressing room floor.

Another time the home team forgot their jerseys, we lent them ours. After the game they tore our jerseys, stretched the necks, piled them up and spit on them.

[M. Frank Hegel @BackCzech4Check]

@OilersNation Chris Pronger
Kyle Brodziak
Brett Kulak
Andrew Cogliano

[M. Frank Hegel @BackCzech4Check]

@Combat_Casuals Weigh in day of the fight. Simple.

[M. Frank Hegel @BackCzech4Check]

@DanClarkSports What do you expect?
He’s 37 years old!

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

Nobody talks about the lonely part.

“People always talk about talent, but what they don’t wanna talk about is loneliness. The empty gym…”

- Larry Bird

Confidence.
Nobody gives it to you.
You build it rep by rep.
In the gym when no one’s watching. https://t.co/4zIilqfX40

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Roger Federer dropped some real wisdom in his Dartmouth commencement speech:

He won nearly 80% of his 1,526 professional matches, but only 54% of the points he played.

Even one of the greatest tennis players of all time lost almost half his points.

His lesson: Don’t dwell on every mistake. A double fault, a lost point, even a bad day, it’s just one point. The champions move on quickly with the same focus and fire for the next one.

This is one of the best mindset lessons I’ve heard in a long time. It applies way beyond tennis.

Life is full of losses and setbacks. The difference between average and exceptional is how quickly you reset and keep playing.

[M. Frank Hegel @BackCzech4Check]

@TweetsbyCoachP Designing jerseys can be fun.

[Tommy Beer @TommyBeer]

fascinating detailed description of the work former lottery pick Joe Alexander put into his game as a teenager

[Aaron Pete @Aaronpete_]

I'm prepared to go to jail over this.

My grandmother Rita Pete went to St. Mary's Indian Residential School. She experienced terrible abuse. As a consequence, she struggled with alcohol use most of her life.

My mother was born with FASD as a consequence of her using alcohol to cope with her trauma.

I am Chief of my community Chawathil First Nation. I am working to address the longstanding impacts of these past policies through renovating homes, building new homes, creating childcare, and growing businesses through economic development.

I have interviewed people who went to Indian Residential Schools. I have interviewed people who believe Indian Residential Schools were awful, horrible schools, meant to remove the Indian from the child.

I've also interviewed people who believe they were well intended, generous investments by Canadian taxpayers meant to assimilate a society and had shortcomings.

Like with many things, the history is dark, complicated, and with any policy that existed for a long time, across a whole country - there were different experiences.

No one story tells us everything. No report shares the full experience of the individuals who went. No commentator today can disprove someone's lived experience with statistics.

The path forward is not to criminalize speech, questions, or debate.

The path forward is empathy for past attendees.
The path forward is truth based on facts.
The path forward is real conversations.
The path forward is to lean into complexity.

If the government criminalizes this, then I will be a criminal for having these conversations.

If I am a criminal by the laws definition, then I am committed to going to jail over this.

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

Nick Saban: "Everybody's smart that goes to medical school. But everybody doesn't make it through… It's the same kind of thing with athletes. Some of 'em have great talent but they don't have the right psychological disposition."

Mindset Matters.

[Ayanokoji @layeee09]

Le vieux du quartier m’a dit : « N’oublie pas que la boussole a été inventée avant l’horloge parce que la direction est plus importante que le temps. »

[Bleed Oil Blue @BleedOilBlue]

Watching Oilers Connor McDavid mic'd up on Oilers Plus, one thing stands out immediately: how calm and controlled he is on the ice.

While everyone else is moving at 100 mph, McDavid is thinking two plays ahead.

What's the most impressive part of McDavid's game: his speed, vision, or hockey IQ?

👇 Let me know in the comments.

#LetsGoOilers #ConnorMcDavid #Oilers #NHL #Hockey