Hockey Mindset

Instead, the best hockey players harness the power of self-talk, whether consciously or unconsciously the quality of their mindset always determines the quality of their behavior.

The body always follows the mind, it doesn’t work the other way around.  We see this so often in those who seem like such prospects at a young age, and yet by the time they are mature and able enough to make their own decisions they never get far in this game and end up saying things like “what if” in their late 20’s. 

Their body had all the tools, yet it was their mind that held them back from making it.  You will come across a lot of people who will point towards things such as motivation and discipline, and claim that these are the real keys to success.  Although they are a single key, I wouldn’t ever call them “the” key to success. In a very well and upfront way, if you don’t master your self-talk you will never master your on-ice performance.