Official Account of the Belleville Jr. Bulls U10 AA Program
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Jackson Blake.
Just another example of how development is a long and winding road.
And now he’s lifting the best trophy in all of sports.
#nevergiveup
Jackson Blake was an elite mid-round find by the Canes, and he took the hard road to get there
Shattuck cut him from its U16 team in favor of 4 other forwards
Now:
• 2 play D3
• 1 retired out of the NAHL
• 1 plays USPORTS
Blake just led his Stanley Cup-winning team in scoring.
How you handle adversity is everything.
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Dreams do come true.
#nevergiveup
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Never give up.
Jun 10
Undrafted.
111 AHL Games.
3 Different Organizations.
Waivers.
Oh and 31 regular season wins, fastest goalie to 11 wins, and a winning start in the Stanley Cup Final for Brandon Bussi 🔥
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Congratulations to KJG U18 graduate Ryan Foley on signing with the Trenton Golden Hawks.
Ryan is a 200 ft player that competes hard, loves the game and leaves it all on the ice.
Congratulations, Ryan!
#holyFoley
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Great stuff. 👍
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Passion out of machine revving tension
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May 11
KIDS: This is Jakub Dobes' journey.
At 18 years old, he was playing 18u AAA and Missouri high school hockey.
He made a vow then to @JeffLoVecchio that he was going ALL IN. So much that he sent a screenshot of every meal that he ate to Vechs to make sure his nutrition was on point.
This video gives me chills. Especially knowing the work that went into it with the partnership of Dobey and Vechs.
Everyone has a different path. 18u and Missouri HS hockey at 18 years old.
Seven years later he has the entire Bell Centre in Montreal on its feet.
When you commit to something - really commit to something - it's a powerful, powerful thing.
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I worked it in to look like that
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Great stuff. 👍
May 9
P.K. Subban has fulfilled his $10 million commitment to Montreal Children’s Hospital — the largest donation by an athlete in Canadian history ❤️
A decade-long promise kept, with approximately 100,000 children helped. Respect 🫡
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THANK YOU @ HOCKEY GODS!!
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What a great lesson for young players. 👍
May 4
Nick Suzuki:
-Captain of the @CanadiensMTL
-101 points in the regular season, 6th in the NHL
-First round draft pick
-Team Canada Olympian
Puts his body in front of a Kucherov one-timer to seal the series. When your best players do this, you win.
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Right on. 👍
Apr 24
Fernando Mendoza was a 2 star coming out of high school.
He had to beg his way into college football.
He won the national championship.
He won the Heisman trophy.
He is the first pick in the NFL draft.
The coaches that knew him the best growing up were probably telling college coaches he was special but the college coaches were reliant on the rankings to formulate their opinions.
Makeup, work ethic, toughness, maturity and aptitude are monumentally more important than showcase skills.
Special players have special traits from a young age that don't show up in player rankings.
Players
If you're genuinely outworking the competition and sacrificing like a maniac.
Believe in yourself and be relentless like Fernando Mendoza.
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Dreams come true. 👍
Apr 23
A dad breaks down in tears as he watched his son pitch in his first MLB game, and throw his first career strikeout.
His son’s childhood dream coming true right in front of him.
Incredible.
This is what every father lives for, seeing his children succeed.
Powerful moment.
Video: ESPN
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Hero.
Principal Kirk Moore, who tackled the school shooter, walked into prom a few days later to a huge celebration from the students and was named prom king.
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Apr 17
KIDS: Ryan Seelinger is up for Player of the Year in the @USHL after an amazing year. I coached Ryan at U16 in Chicago and could not be happier. Quick story and perspective:
Ryan was a very skilled player. But in one of the first games of the year he showed up late to a battle. Didn't put enough effort into it and lost the 50/50.
He came back to the bench and I told him that's not acceptable, sat him for a couple shifts, told him why. And I don't think I ever had to tell him again. Coachable. Accountable.
After that year he didn't get drafted to any junior league so he played U18. Played the next year after that in the NAHL. As a 19 year-old finally made the USHL (after getting drafted in the 10th round) and then at 20 he popped off this year.
In hockey development, character matters. Accountability matters. Love for the game matters. The things you can control matter.
It's a marathon, not a sprint. Ryan comes from a great family. He's a hockey nerd, loves the game. Rink rat who loves to get better.
I share this story because there will be a talented young player that doesn't love to be coached and isn't accountable reading this. They will undoubtedly get passed by players like Ryan if they don't change.
And because there will be a player like Ryan, overlooked but with the character to persevere, who will read this and hopefully be motivated to know that if they work harder than anyone that their goals are attainable.
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You have to hate losing. 👍
“I don’t know if I’m back but if I’m back I’m changing this culture. Losing is not important enough to them, it doesn’t bother them. Show up and compete,” Rick Bowness
Winning isn’t an expectation.
It’s a standard driven by relentless effort.
That’s how culture is built.
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Oh ya! Never give up. 👍
Apr 14
NEW: 60-year-old cancer survivor is trying to become the oldest person to play college football.
Tom Green, a 60-year-old freshman political science major at McDaniel College, has made the football roster.
Green owns a wooden pallet company in Pennsylvania and never went to college.
In 2015, he was diagnosed with Stage IV kidney cancer. He said he "was checking out in 2017," but ended up beating cancer.
Green plays defensive line and made the DIII team as a walk-on. He is also a full-time student, as that is a requirement to play on the team.
"I knew that the number was 61, that's the oldest player who ever played. I'm going to be 61 in June, so I'm [going to] be tying that record. But he [the record holder] just kicked extra points; he was a kicker," Green said to a local news outlet.
Beast.
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"A lot of times the guy that plays hard is better than the guy that has the most talent."
Everybody wants to be called talented.
Few want to be called relentless.
It's simple:
The one who refuses to be outworked eventually becomes the one nobody can stop.
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Apr 11
You rarely see great players:.
- Complain.
- Blame others.
- Cut corners.
- Sulk.
- Make excuses.
- Arrive late.
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This is such great perspective on the coach-player relationship.
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Habs coach Marty St. Louis today on Ivan Demidov:
“I’m still learning about Demi. You don’t wanna over-coach players like him…The thing I love about him, he’s such a talented kid. It’s not necessarily about him. He wants to do things to help the team, not necessarily ‘I’m gonna do the things that help me, what I like to do.’ I get the things he likes to do and he’s elite at that.”
“I feel like that’s probably the hardest thing for a coach, it’s to convince a high-pick, young player that there’s a whole other game out there to be played besides the game that you like to do that’s gonna benefit the team. That’s what impresses me the most with Demi at his age, to really want to take care of the team, and still finding his own moments that he likes to do. That impresses me.”
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