Hockey players come in all different shapes and sizes. From Zdeno Chara to Nathan Gerbe, to a more local spectrum of Sam Morin to, let’s say, Nick Cousins, every player comes with a different makeup.
Similarly, every player has a different approach to their offseason. Perhaps that’s a bit surprising. They’re hockey players; they skate, they shoot, they pass, they block shots. Why don’t they all just do the same thing in the offseason? Well, they’re regular, every day people, too, just like you.
Every offseason brings with it a new hope. Like Luke Skywalker emerging to take on the Empire in the fittingly named, Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, the beginning of the hockey summer gives each player – from the established all-star to the fringe AHL player – the chance to rise, to better themselves, to become the player management knows they can be just as Obi-Wan Kenobi saw in his young padawan.